Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every critic of foreign aid is confronted with the fact that U.S. military aid was a major factor in overthrowing the Goulart government. It provided the Brazilian military forces with an indoctrination in the principles of democracy and a pro-U.S. orientation. Many of the officers were trained in the U.S. under the AID program. They knew that democracy was better than Communism...
...military bends over backwards to attract foreign investment with tax exemptions and guarantees. For example, Alcan (Canadian subsidiary of Alcoa) got favorable terms for mining Amazonian bauxite deposits, being allowed to raise more than 80 per cent of its working capital in Brazil without taking a Brazilian partner...
...questionable goal for Yale came with only 1:43 left in the half and knotted the score at 1-1. Kidder made an off balance save of a Yale direct kick by Brazilian Henry Sherrill, the ball hit the top goal post and dropped straight down. Yale's Doug Billman pushed the rebound across the goal line with his body. The officials claimed Billman had bounced the ball off his chest but it appeared that the ball might have hit Billman's elbow...
BILLED as a "Brazilian Spectacle," a celebration of South American peasant life, Ariano Suassuna's The Rogue's Trial is an often entertaining, somewhat uneven, quasi-insipid piece of theater. It is, we are informed as soon as the lights have dimmed, "a highly moral story," a plea for mercy. The high moral which the play espouses, however, turns out to be that regardless of what one does on earth, heaven is ultimately attainable. It is no wonder that the Brazilian government and coffee-growers have supported the production of the play...
...kind of constitution the junta members have in mind is similar to the one introduced by the military dictators of Brazil. It vests vast power in a President, who in recent years has been appointed by the general staff rather than elected. When "national security" is in danger, the Brazilian code allows for suspension of such democratic rights as arrest warrants and habeas corpus and provides for censorship and trial by military courts...