Word: brasilia
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Instead of Rio de Janeiro, Air Force One landed Tuesday night in Brasilia, the oppressively bland and businesslike capital city planned and built from scratch on an isolated plateau during the late 1950s. "Your elections Nov. 15," Reagan said on his arrival, "demonstrated Brazil's confidence in itself and stability in freedom...
...BRASILIA, Brazil--President Reagan in Brazil for meetings with this nation's militery president said yesterday the I nited States is lathing with its allies about expanding the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebonon...
...former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 58, it seemed like old times. After watching a soccer match in Rio, Kissinger flew to Brasilia, the capital, to deliver a university lecture. Some 300 protesting students pelted the lecture hall with eggs and tomatoes, and then pounded samba drums to taunt him. Hustled out by police into a paddy wagon, Kissinger took it all in stride: "I used to be a professor at Harvard, so I am used to this. But Brazilian students do have better rhythm...
...flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down into the teeming Amazon jungles and out to the polluted, industrial port cities and the awkward metropolis of Brasilia, the film follows its motley heroes feeling their way from the old to new. Diegues revels in the journey, sketching his way across the country recording the colors and complexities of transitional Brazil with a free hand and both a loving and sardonic...
Administrators in Brasilia suggest that if illegal gold exports could be stopped and all the country's gold deposits controlled in the same way as Serra Pelada, Brazil could count on an annual yield of 300 tons of the metal. That is 40% of the production in South Africa, one of the world's leading gold diggers...