Word: brazil
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There is some of this romantic, celebratory quality in Memoir from Antproof Case (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24), but reasonableness does not rule. As we meet the novel's main character, he is 80 or so, hiding out in Brazil from real or imagined assassins, writing down his adventures and stashing them in an ant-proof case for his beloved 10-year-old stepson to read when he is older...
Some 10 hours later and 200 miles south of Chicago, at least 300 journalists tried to stay warm under a crescent moon as they waited outside the Indiana Youth Center in Plainfield. They came from as far away as Brazil and Germany to watch prisoner No. 922335 emerge after three years of incarceration for rape. The prisoner was Mike Tyson, once the No. 1 heavyweight in the world and a fighter some thought could be the best there ever was. Although everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson...
...Brazil, Chile and Argentina, all guarantors of the 1942 treaty, have pressed both sides to avoid further bloodshed. No one doubts that a full- blown war between Peru and Ecuador would be a lopsided contest. Peru's armed forces (115,000 soldiers) and population (22 million) are twice the size of its rival's. ``Conflicts like this start as skirmishes, but they always hold within them the potential to escalate,'' says a senior Administration official. ``It's important to nip them in the bud.'' And in this case, to try to settle the border dispute once...
...midweek, Mexico got a measure of relief when the International Monetary Fund approved a $7.8 billion loan, the largest it has ever made, to help stabilize the peso. Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia also jointly opened a $1 billion credit line for Mexico. But the infusions were not large enough to solve Mexico's most serious challenge: finding sufficient funds to pay off or refinance $26 billion in mostly foreign-owned short-term bonds maturing during 1995. The government got a hint of the difficulties ahead last week when it put at auction $400 million in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds...
Ecuador accepted a ceasefire proposed by neighboring countries and the U.S. in the weeklong military skirmish with Peru, but Peru refused to cooperate. Representatives of the two countries are meeting in Brazil to try and resolve the border clash, which escalated into armed conflict three weeks ago. Unofficial reports say more than 20 Peruvians and 30 Ecuadorians have been killed so far. The dispute stems from a 1942 treaty that delineated a new border between the two countries, but left some 50 miles unmarked...