Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their final document, "Justice in the World," consisted largely of bland generalities on such topics as economics and ecology, and was sent to the Pope without public release. It protested "injustices deprived of a voice," but stopped short of citing specific situations such as those in Brazil and South Africa. On the population problem, the statement suggested that abortion and the "unjust imposition" of contraception could be equated with war as violations of "the right to life...
...often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans...
...certainly right. Though the agencies act on their own, they usually follow the General Assembly's lead. Thus UNESCO (the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) moved swiftly at its Paris headquarters to give Taipei the boot by a 25-to-2 margin with five abstentions. Only the U.S. and Brazil resisted the tide...
When the first crickets appeared in Altinho in early October, no one thought much of it. After all, they were probably attracted by new mercury vapor lamps in the main square. Besides, far worse problems bedeviled the poor farming town of 4,500 in Brazil's barren Northeast, 100 miles from Recife, most notably a searing drought that had destroyed two harvests in the past three years...
Studying the situation last week, Brazilian entomologists pointed out that crickets are controlled by toads, each of which can devour 300 cricket nymphs a night. But for four years in Brazil's Northeast, toads have been hunted for skins, which sell well in the U.S. to make purses, belts and watchbands. Without toads, the cricket population exploded. Until the two get into equilibrium again, St. Sebastian has his work...