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...accusation "a lie." Shultz then flew on to Brazil, landing without fanfare in Rio de Janeiro. At week's end, he was enjoying a tropical round of golf with an aide at the lush Gávea Golf Club prior to a scheduled hourlong meeting on Monday in Brasilia with the country's military President, João Baptista Figueiredo. Once again, progress toward full democracy was liable to be discussed: Figueiredo will step down from the country's most important remaining nonelective political office in March 1985, probably in favor of a civilian...
Enders' successor, Motley, is considered too inexperienced in the State Department to exert the kind of influence that got Enders into trouble. Motley, moreover, is regarded as a Reagan loyalist unlikely to have differences with the White House. Still, Motley has been blunt-spoken and independent in Brasilia. He recently said of his job: "We are dealing with a goddam tough set of facts as representatives of the U.S., and it is no job for cookie-pushing layabouts." He has been critical of diplomats who ignore Congress or fail to answer letters from legislators. "We at State...
...embraced everyone. There was more than just dancing in the streets--in Milan many danced on the rooftops of cars. Throughout the celebration thousands shouted cheers in unison. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted over and over again. Or for the more vulgarly minded: "Brasilia! Brasilia! Vaffanculo...
Norwood and Dulce Warwick Brasilia...
Because they defied the authorities, two French Catholic missionaries languished last week in federal police headquarters in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, while they appealed eight-and ten-year sentences for alleged "incitement to kill." Father Aristides Camio, 41, and Father François Guriou, 40, got into trouble in the jungles of the Amazon basin by advising the impoverished natives that, under the law, they had a claim on land in a rain forest. When the natives hacked out villages, clearing the tangle of trees with machetes, they were attacked by gun squads hired by absentee owners...