Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil goes," said an animated Richard Nixon in 1971, "so will the rest of the Latin American continent." Indeed, since its 1964 coup set the stage for a wave of military takeovers on the continent, Brazil has been regarded as the center of gravity of South American politics...
...foreign debt that is estimated to be as high as $150 billion; international conferences resound with cries for a moratorium or stretch-out of repayments on a large part of that debt. By mid-1976 U.S. banks alone had some $30 billion in outstanding loans to five nations-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Indonesia-that are considered potential problem debtors. The Zaïrian debacle increases doubts about how much of the Third World debt will continue to be repaid...
Jari officials have recently moved to open up the project to outside visitors, especially Brazilians. But Ludwig himself determinedly maintains his cherished privacy. Unannounced, he slips in and out of Brazil on regularly scheduled commercial flights, riding tourist class...
Untrue Rumors. The Brazilian government has long pursued its own plans to colonize and develop the Amazon, so far with disappointing results. In a way, Ludwig's project is the realization of this old Brazilian ambition. Yet Jari has picked up an unjustifiedly distasteful reputation in Brazil. Because of Ludwig's passion for secrecy, abetted by Jari's remote location, untrue stories of slave laborers living in hovels have regularly appeared in the Brazilian press. In fact, while they are occasionally exploited by contractors, the migrant workers who make up about two-thirds of Jari's work force frequently return...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...