Word: brazilianizing
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American policy-makers must gain deeper insights into the personal feelings of Latin America and come to accept their socialist aspirations or risk losing their friendship, a delegation of Chilean and Brazilian trade unionists declared at Quincy House last night...
Last week the U.S. asked West Germany (which is forbidden by treaty to allow manufacture of atomic bombs) to classify the newest design as secret. But scientists say that the secret is already out. The Brazilian atomic energy commission already owns three early models of the West German machine, and an Amsterdam professor is designing others "for commercial purposes." When the U.N. Political Committee takes up the subject of disarmament this week, there should be a new urgency about the Big Four at last reaching agreement on controlling the atom...
...apparent need for easing the economic and social aches and pains of Latin America took concrete form last week in a set of redecorated offices in a nondescript building in Washington. With a ceremonial round of martinis, pisco sours* and Brazilian coffee, the Inter-American Development Bank declared itself ready for business at 801 Nineteenth Street. No sooner were the doors open than the loan ideas started pouring in. What could the bank do for a dietetic laboratory in Mexico? How about a farm machinery credit house in Chile...
...Atlantic. It has financed highways inside Paraguay and has given Stroessner free port facilities on the ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre oil concession, a 780,000-acre coffee plantation that grows a full one-third of Paraguay's crop, plus other valuable concessions...
...criticism applies to much of Latin America, where, through law, influence and tax-dodging, the rich still enjoy relatively low taxes. Brazilian wage earners cannot avoid payroll deductions, but only 340,000 of 4,000,000 independently employed, such as doctors, farmers, lawyers, even filed returns...