Word: brazilianizing
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...military continued its protracted postmortem, Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raúl Alfonsin, was trying to revive a civil and useful relationship with Britain. For weeks Alfonsin's government and that of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been exchanging messages through Brazilian and Swiss intermediaries regarding a partial rapprochement and resumption of peaceful negotiations over the future of the Falklands. In January the British offered to resume air services between the two countries, to restore trade and financial dealings that were frozen as a result of the war, and to return Argentine war dead...
...first part of the building was standing, and Agassiz and his 19 assistants began collecting and expanding. From then until 1901, the museum added eight new buildings all integrated into the main structure. During that time, it launched several collecting expeditions and became best known for its Brazilian fish...
...hardly a dramatic ending to one of Latin America's most notorious terrorist careers. When Brazilian federal police descended last week on a modest apartment in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district, their quarry no doubt expected the visit: he had returned home the night before to find Brazilian reporters squatting on his doorstep, clamoring for interviews. After the authorities finally arrived, Mário Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle...
...billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus subject to penalty duties. Further economic blows of that kind could threaten the country's long and gradual "opening" to full civilian rule, and complicate what is essentially a long and stable friendship between Brasilia and Washington. Predicts a Brazilian banker: "Late 1984 could be a crucial period for U.S.-Brazilian relations." Before ending his trip with a brief courtesy visit to Barbados, Shultz will look in on yet another tricky democratic transition, in tiny Grenada (see following story). But with much of the diplomatic pilgrimage still ahead, a senior...
HOSPITALIZED. Ibn Talal Hussein, 48, King of Jordan; for heart and intestinal tests as well as a general physical; at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, where Saudi Arabia's late King Khalid and Brazilian President João Baptista de Figueiredo have also been treated...