Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course we're not. And nowhere are you more painfully aware of the fact than in reading this cover story The Magic of Brazil. Oh yes. Magic country. Beautiful country. And the excerpts printed here from Jim Metsner's Bahia portfolio of photos and recordings of traditional Brazilian culture and music help bring some of this 6,000 miles-away richness to the most insular Cambridge dweller...
...well suited to Third World nations because it requires little capital and manpower is plentiful. South Korea and Taiwan, whose rapid economic progress has set an example for the entire underdeveloped world, are utterly dependent on the U.S. mar ket for the sale of shoes. In just nine years, Brazil has created from virtually nothing a $170 million shoe export business...
...Brazil recognizes that America, its best customer for shoes, cannot indefinitely absorb its footwear and is now making a strenuous effort to find other markets. As a Hong Kong tex tile manufacturer says: "We know we cannot just flood the world, but we do think we should be entitled to a fair share of the annual growth...
...will try to negotiate agreements with South Korea and Taiwan under which those nations would "voluntarily" cut back exports to the U.S.-mainly of work, athletic and vinyl shoes-in return for a pledge of no tariff increase. The Administration hopes that other nations, such as Italy, Spain and Brazil, will reduce their shoe sales in the U.S. (or at least not increase them) without formal negotiations. The President also pledged to ask Congress for federal aid to the domestic shoe industry that could total $1 billion over the next decade. Said Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss: "We knew this decision...
...Samuel Lewis, 46, to Israel. Though a professional diplomat, he too is a surprise, since he has had little experience in the Middle East. ("Maybe that's his biggest advantage," quips a senior State Department official.) Lewis, a Texan who joined the Foreign Service in 1954, served in Brazil during the '60s and later became Latin American specialist for the National Security Council. Most recently, he has been deputy director of State's Office of Policy Planning and assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs...