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...from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are pushing ahead with the development of new weapons that could undermine whatever progress may be made at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which are scheduled to resume in Geneva this week after a recess of nearly...
PROLIFERATION. Washington is deeply disturbed by the Bonn-Brasilia agreement. Over the next 15 years, Brazil will pay from $4 billion to $8 billion for a "full cycle" nuclear complex, giving it all the facilities needed to assemble an atomic power industry completely independent of foreign supplies. The package includes up to eight nuclear power reactors, a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel-rod fabrication plant and a fuel-reprocessing facility...
...unsuccessfully tried to block, and then delay the Bonn-Brasilia deal. Washington argued that because a full cycle complex had never been sold to any nonnuclear nation, West Germany would be setting a dangerous precedent that could only increase the chance of nuclear proliferation. So far, only the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain possess the costly, complicated plants to produce enriched uranium. All other nations must come to these powers for nuclear fuel for reactors. Washington pointed out that U.S. firms are strictly prohibited from selling enrichment plants abroad; Brazil, in fact, would like to have bought...
...friends had alerted him to my disappearance. It took him three days to get Brazilian authorities to honor an international agreement granting foreigners the right to see diplomatic representatives of their country. On Friday Ambassador John H. Crimmins officially protested my treatment to the Brazilian Foreign Office in Brasilia. After five more days, Brown managed to get Colonel Meziat to provide a mattress for me; in seven days I was given decent food and a New Testament. After 17 days of confinement, during which I lost 15 pounds, President Geisel signed an expulsion order. Without being given a chance...
When they took over, the generals declared their intention to rule only "temporarily"; they gave themselves three years. Last week Pat Nixon flew into the gleaming, Oscar Niemeyer-inspired capital Brasilia to witness the inauguration of a new President, but the ceremony signaled no easing of the reins. In a brief swearing in, low-keyed President-select (meaning selected by the generals) Ernesto Geisel promised to uphold a constitution that his three immediate predecessors (all generals) had carefully tailored to meet their authoritarian requirements...