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...government announced that it was able to produce uranium enriched enough to fuel power reactors. The program was, of course, "exclusively peaceful." Brazil signed cooperation agreements on nuclear technology with Iraq in 1981 and China in 1984. Until their return two weeks ago, 21 Brazilian rocketry engineers had spent 18 months in Iraq working to improve Baghdad's missiles...
...armed forces," says Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, a nuclear specialist at the Brazilian Physics Society, "are continuing their nuclear programs." If funds for them are not halted, Rosa predicts, Brazil's military could produce a Hiroshima-size bomb in a year or two. Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a Washington think tank, agrees. "The State Department has not been willing to recognize that Brazil is a proliferation risk," he says...
Last week Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin focused on an application by Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace firm that has sold weapons to Iraq, to obtain supercomputer technology from IBM. The Senate passed Kasten's amendment barring supercomputer exports to Brazil and any other country aiding Iraq. The White House opposes the amendment as too broad and considers it a restriction of the President's powers in foreign relations...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...
...needed to override the veto, the U.S. textile industry still hopes for an eventual success. Developing countries deplore the bill. "How can the American government justify asking Brazil or other countries to open their economies when the U.S. is closing its own?" asks Adimar Schievelbein, a consultant to the Brazilian shoe industry...