Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News of bribery causes no surprise here in Brazil, where "special payment arrangements" are routine in all deals with government departments. In Rome, you must do as the Romans. Your multinationals are right...
Your reviewer charges me with bad taste in using Dr. Josef Mengele, late of Auschwitz, as the villain of my novel The Boys from Brazil [Feb. 23]. I must concede that what I have done is almost on a par with putting a would-be assassin on the cover of a national magazine or publishing a list of a dead President's rumored mistresses...
...America since the days when he put the region at the bottom of his list of international priorities. He has apparently come to feel that Latin America's problems are an important part of the larger U.S. relationship with the Third World. Venezuela is a major oil exporter. Brazil and Mexico are experiencing rapid economic growth. As a whole, the continent has supported the Third World's clamorous demand that the industrialized countries provide more aid to the poorer countries...
...embassy, and attended a dinner in his honor at the Palacio Torre Tagle in Lima. His basic message: the U.S. does not object to Peru's pro-Third World policies and invites Lima to consult regularly with Washington "to discuss issues of common concern." In Brazil, the Secretary appraised the country as a relatively advanced society that still tends to support Third World demands against the rich nations. As he put it during a banquet in Brasilia, it "stands astride the great international challenge of our time: the gap between the developed and the developing worlds...
...would be logical, in Kissinger's view, for Brazil to become the southern anchor of stability in the Western Hemisphere. In acknowledgment of this potentially key international role, Kissinger and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira signed an agreement establishing twice-yearly talks on such matters as trade, technology exchange...