Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aqaba, possibly in the 7th century B.C. Presumably, they sailed through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have been swept across the Atlantic to the coast of Brazil. And there the hardy band of voyagers left their historic memoir...
Garble. The Phoenician text has a pedigree almost as strange as the tale it tells. In 1872, a slave belonging to a landowner named Joaquim Alves de Costa supposedly found the inscription on a broken stone tablet on his sprawling estate in the tropical rain forests of Brazil's Paraíba state. Costa's son, a draftsman, made a copy of the baffling markings and sent it to the Brazilian
Among Italy's emerging new breed of Roman Catholic militants, the Jacques Maritain Circle (named after the French philosopher) arranged a memorial mass in Che's honor last February, and Catholic services for him have been held in several other countries. In Brazil, mythmakers have circulated thousands of copies of a photograph of the dead Che captioned "A Saint of Our Time." Italian students have christened him Angela della Pace-"Angel of Peace...
...SECOND issue of technical assistance for peaceful uses of atomic energy has raised a flurry of charges that it will keep the non-nuclear states in a status of permanent technological dependence on the nuclear powers. Brazil and Argentina particularly are seeking specific commitments in the draft treaty to enable them to use nuclear explosives to clear virgin land...
...every 800 Catholics; worldwide, the ratio is now about one for every 1,300 Catholics-and it is getting worse. In 1966, the number of Catholics increased by 11,000,000; but the church gained only 5,000 new priests. Major crisis countries, said the cardinals, include France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and the U.S. According to the 1968 Official Catholic Directory, the nation's total of priests last year decreased by 89-the first drop since at least...