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...trademark may be a soccer ball rather than a football, but nonetheless, Pele, 45, has been tapped to be grand marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., next New Year's Day. The Brazilian megastar, who led his country's team to World Cup victory three times and scored 1,281 goals in his career before retiring in 1977, follows such past marshals as John Wayne (1973), Gerald Ford (1978) and Lee Iacocca (1985) in kicking off the show. "To me it is like another World Cup," said Pele, who flew to California to accept his latest...
Another sore spot for Harvard's public relations team was the requirement that all reporters seeking credentials to cover the event indicate their race on an application form. When one Brazilian newspaper answered "human" to the race question, the news office told the South Americans they would not receive credentials unless they completed the form accurately...
...laity alike were openly questioning some traditional teachings of the church. Since then the Vatican has attempted to restore a sense of doctrinal discipline; it removed renegade Swiss Theologian Hans Kung from his teaching post at the University of Tubingen in West Germany and silenced for a year Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff, an advocate of Marxist-tinged liberation theology. Last week Rome moved against an American priest who has openly questioned the church's stance on sexual morality. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, revoked the license of the Rev. Charles...
Last March the Brazilian government launched a bold attack on a 255% annual inflation rate by freezing prices, raising wages and creating a new currency unit, the cruzado, which was officially pegged at 13.8 to the U.S. dollar. Now the government's war is taking a new turn. Brazilian federal police have conducted dozens of raids across the country aimed at shrinking a rapidly growing black market in U.S. currency. The widespread illegal activity seemed to indicate rising fears among the citizenry that President Jose Sarney's well-publicized anti-inflation campaign might be running out of steam...
...prospective parents at the Itajai airport and escorted them to his luxurious farmhouse, where they were permitted to spend time with several babies available for adoption. Once a couple had selected a child, adoption papers, possibly obtained under illegal circumstances, were provided. "Cesario took advantage of very poor Brazilian people and the sentimental needs of foreigners who would pay anything for a baby," said Alcioni de Santana, the federal police superintendent in Itajai. "There is trafficking in babies everywhere in Brazil, but I've never seen anything like this...