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...Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised the country as a relatively advanced society that still tends to support Third World demands against the rich nations. As he put it during a banquet in Brasilia, it "stands astride the great international challenge of our time: the gap between the developed and the developing worlds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Dr. Kissinger's Pills for Latin America | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Mountains, jungle, savanna, pampas, desert and suddenly, amidst all the distances, a city of four million, or eight. Against the Big Sky of the Brazilian interior, the wide, windy vistas of Brasilia, with some human touches creeping in around the edges of the totalitarian master design−it will be a great capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...India; the Indians were able to divert nuclear materials from a Canadian-supplied power reactor in order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that it plans to develop nuclear explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: The Mushrooming Nuclear Menace | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

Sales Agreement. Even as Bonn and Brasilia were putting the finishing touches on their sales agreement in late May, most of the 94 nations that have ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty were meeting in Geneva to review its first five years. When it was drafted, the treaty seemed to offer some hope that nations possessing nuclear weapons would pledge not to give them away or assist other nations in producing them, while countries without the arms would promise not to accept or manufacture them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: The Mushrooming Nuclear Menace | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...treaty. Nonetheless, tougher measures to monitor the spread of nuclear technology may still be possible. In mid-June representatives of the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and Canada (the so-called nuclear suppliers club) secretly gathered in London for their second meeting this year. The Bonn-Brasilia full cycle deal was apparently on their minds; it is believed they reached a consensus for drafting new controls for the transfer of nuclear supplies and technology. A new code, for instance, might force nuclear equipment buyers-like Brazil-to permit very strict inspection of all their atomic facilities. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: The Mushrooming Nuclear Menace | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

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