Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepare for her mission, Rosalynn sat through 13 two-hour briefings on the area's political and economic problems. She also practiced her Spanish; she knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright...
...clamoring for tariffs and quotas to protect what remains of the U.S. shoe industry, Strauss has negotiated a tentative agreement with two big exporters to the U.S.-Taiwan and South Korea-that would provide for cutbacks in their shipments. The White House hopes that other major exporters, notably Spain, Brazil and Uruguay, will continue to restrain their shoe exports...
...brews and blends will have some time to prove themselves on the market. Retail coffee prices have risen nearly 170% since a devastating freeze struck Brazil in 1975; cold winds blew through the country again last week, possibly damaging next year's crop and threatening supplies. Though there have been some signs of a softening in coffee prices, most experts now believe it will be several years before the cost of a pound of ground roast will sink back to even...
...Carter on human rights, one of Hesburgh's passions. Hesburgh will award degrees to Bishop Donal Lament, who was ousted from Rhodesia; Stephen Cardinal Kim, who has fought against government repression in South Korea; and Paul Cardinal Arnes, who has spoken out against human rights violations in Brazil...
...Brazil is not just thythm and poetry and exquisite color prints. You will walk through Rio de Janeiro, city beneath Sugarloaf Mountain, between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, but also a city where, two blocks behind a luxury hotel begins a shanty town of 'favelas'" crowded on sewerless hillsides where plague lingers in the streets. Favelas that disgorge beggars who make rich tourists shiver and toss coins. Magic? Hardly...