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...current phenomenon dates from the attempted kidnaping of John Gordon Mein, the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, in 1968; Mein tried to escape and was killed, with four bullets in the back and one in the head. Last year Brazilian guerrillas, mostly students, seized U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, but released him unharmed when, after 77 hours, the Brazilian government allowed 15 prisoners to escape. Within the past month, Latin American terrorists have set a record by kidnaping four diplomats. In addition to Crowley and Sanchez, these included the Japanese consul general in Brazil and a U.S. embassy attach...
...delights, notably the pleasure of watching Jean Pace (Brown's wife) smile like the girls in Vogue wish they could and dance like the priestesses in Aida definitely should. But the LP blesses the ear with her Brown Baby and Afro Blue. It also offers Oscar and a Brazilian wizard named Sivuca (pianist, accordionist, guitarist, world's funkiest falsetto) singing and playing a small treasury of other inter-American gems...
Security and peace of mind, according to an old Brazilian adage, is a strong house, a tame horse and an ugly wife. If the maxim still applies, Rio de Janeiro is a less secure place today. For the former capital of Brazil has become a world capital of the plastic-surgery industry, and ugly wives by the hundreds are being remolded into well-proportioned visions of beauty. The deft use of vanity surgery, as the Brazilians call it, has provided women who flock in from all over the world with new faces, larger (or smaller) bosoms, slimmer hips and even...
...following the chemical makers' lead. Siemens, a major electrical firm, expects its 1969-70 overseas investment to total more than $100 million. It is expanding plants in Europe, Australia and Canada. Volkswagen expects to enlarge an assembly plant in Brazil, and Daimler-Benz will put $68 million into Brazilian and Argentine auto plants during the next three years...
Might not such theological concepts impel men toward social revolution? Indeed, yes. U.S. Theologian Richard Shaull says that only at the center of the revolution can we "perceive what God is doing." His fellow romanticist Rubem Alves, a 36-year-old Brazilian Protestant, thinks man must meet the liberating event of Christ's Resurrection halfway, as "cocreator" of his own destiny (a Teilhardian notion) through the processes of political revolution. Moltmann frankly admits that hope leads to revolution, declaring that the Christian community ought above all to favor the poor and the dispossessed. But both he and Alves suggest...