Word: braziller
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Jose A. Mora will step down next May after 13 years of service as secretary general of the OAS. So far the Central American and Carribean nations have managed to thwart the will of the hemisphere's great powers--the U.S., Brazil and Argentina--on the choice of a successor. This is an unprecedented development in the history of the organization, and it may set an important trend for the future...
Died. Joan Lowell, 64, author and perpetrator of one of the great hoaxes in U.S. letters; of a lung hemorrhage; in Sobradinho, Brazil. In 1929, she wrote an instant bestseller, The Cradle of the Deep, a purported autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...
...conference ended four days late as major splits developed in the backroom ideological bickering. Traditional Communist Party delegations balked at resolutions denouncing the Venezuelan Communists, who have now agreed to run candidates for election; denouncing "some socialist states"--read Russia--for offering financial aid to Brazil and Colombia; pronouncing the armed struggle as the only road to liberation...
...speech was a tour de force in which Castro managed to touch on every single sore point of the solidarity conference. He delivered a stinging slap to the Soviets, denouncing their assistance to Brazil and Colombia. Capping it off, pounding on the lecturn and waving papers in the air, he said...
...look at a map of South America, Bolivia, sharing borders with Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, occupies a strategic position. In terms of Che's continental revolution, the continuing Bolivian rebellion aims at not only taking power in that country, but also slopping over into the surrounding countries...