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...parallels between August 1992 in Brasilia and August 1974 in Washington were eerily exact. Like Richard Nixon 18 years earlier, President Fernando Collor de Mello vowed to fight to the end against impeachment and removal from office. But Collor too saw many of his strongest supporters -- including even the politician who served as best man at his 1984 wedding -- turn against him. Many advised him to resign before he is thrown out and thus spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis. Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a congressional commission concluded after a three- month...
...against environmental activists. "The only kind of protection that these people have is for their enemies to be made aware that if they commit a crime, there will be a big repercussion that will embarrass the government," observes Marcio Santilli, executive secretary of the Nucleus for Indigenous Rights in Brasilia. U.S. Senator Albert Gore this month introduced a congressional resolution that calls on the U.S. government to apply pressure on Malaysia to uphold the human rights of indigenous peoples. New Zealand has gone further: it has said it will stop importing tropical woods from places where there is uncontrolled logging...
...along with joy and hope, the surge of overseas parenting has created a backlash. Side by side with legitimate avenues of adoption, gray and black markets have sprung up where Third World brokers obtain children for foreign clients under questionable circumstances. From Manila to San Salvador, Bucharest to Brasilia, baby-sale scandals have caused Third World countries to tighten procedures and, in some cases, halt foreign adoption. Other countries are curtailing foreign adoptions to protect their image. Prosperous South Korea, which has sent nearly 120,000 abandoned children overseas since the Korean War, now considers foreign adoption applications only...
...inventory, governments around the world are dumping a vast array of state-owned assets onto the open market. This may be the biggest fire sale in history, with properties up for grabs everywhere: in Western Europe, Asia and, most dramatically, Eastern Europe and Latin America. For finance ministers from Brasilia to Budapest, the disposal of publicly owned enterprises has become the great hope for debt-burdened economies...
...took to requesting QSL cards in a fairly efficient way. I set up my word processor so that I could send a form letter to any station I wanted. "Dear Radio Brasilia," I would write. "I have been listening to your station recently and I very much enjoy the high quality of your programming. I recently heard a broadcast at 0800 hours...