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Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...
...seat." The chief elements of the package were 1) a cease-fire with a simultaneous Argentine withdrawal from the islands and a pullback of the British fleet; 2) an end to economic sanctions against Argentina imposed by Britain's supporters; 3) establishment of an interim U.S.-Brazilian-West German-Peruvian authority for the Falklands while the two disputing countries negotiate ultimate sovereignty over the territory. Belaúnde's chief contribution to the plan was to simplify some aspects of the U.S. ideas for the transitional administration of the islands...
...force to settle its territorial dispute with Britain, and realize that their long-range economic and political interests are inevitably linked to the U.S. Says one optimistic analyst: "We should not take this lightly, but in six months it will be forgotten." One example of the attitude at work: Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo, even though he has condemned U.S. support for Britain, did not cancel his state visit to Washington this week...
...Sectarianism in any quarter is an obstacle to the emancipation of mankind. Both types of sectarian, treating history in an equally proprietary fashion, end up without the people--which is another way of being against them," writes Paolo Freire, the brilliant Brazilian educator, in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The view of past history held by rightists and of future history held by sectarian leftists makes them impervious to reality. Open to the world, it will be harder for this generation--an all the generations that follow--to be radical. What Sontag and others of her place and time remind...
Along with 13 other college and high school students. Barnes competed against the national teams of Brazil and the Soviet Union in an invitational competition sponsored by the Brazilian swimming federation...