Word: brazil
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...countries since last month, when the U.S. singled out India as the sole target on a hit list of unfair trading partners. The U.S. trade deficit with India last year was only $851 million, or 2% of the imbalance between the U.S. and Japan. But Japan and Brazil, the two other countries cited last year along with India on the same hit list, were removed this year as a reward for entering into talks with the U.S. to lower some trade barriers. India, however, has refused to negotiate on the grounds that it should not be "intimidated or policed," declared...
...issue was the last of three conflicts that forced the Administration last year to cite Japan under the so-called Super 301 provision of the 1988 trade law. In the other two categories, Tokyo agreed to buy more U.S. supercomputers and satellites. The Administration has won similar concessions from Brazil, another of the three countries named on last year's hit list; only India will be named again...
Perhaps NPR's liveliest offering is Afropop Worldwide, which is buoyed by the wide knowledge, melodious voice and infectious enthusiasm of host Georges Collinet, a Cameroon native. The program explores contemporary African music and its influence on pop sounds. Among performers recently featured: Brazil's Gilberto Gil, the Ivory Coast's Alpha Blondy and the "Lion of Zimbabwe," , Thomas Mapfumo...
Rocking in Rio. About 260,000 people are expected for Paul McCartney's Brazil concerts on April 19 and 21, part of a world tour calling attention to the environment...
...located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues to suspect that he is still alive...