Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cartels have not worked for anyone but the oil producers. Copper prices, for example, have fallen 86? per pound in the past year to 54?, despite substantial production cutbacks by four large producers-Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaïre. To benefit from a sudden jump in coffee prices, Brazil and other growers ignored an international coffee pact more than a year ago; now that prices are down they want a new agreement...
...Santos, Brazil, Soccer King Pelé, 34, was huddling with the general manager of the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League to discuss an offer that Pelé described as. "the sky, the earth and the stars." In cash terms that meant a $5 million to $6 million invitation to come out of retirement to play for the Cosmos for three years and give pro soccer in the U.S. instant credibility...
...fire ants first arrived in Mobile, Ala., in 1918, hidden in a cargo from their native Brazil. Now they infest at least 133 million acres in nine Southern states from Texas to North Carolina and are slowly spreading northward. They live in open areas (farm land, pastures, even lawns) where they build 3-ft-high mounds that hinder mowers, plows and other machinery. They swarm over farm animals or people who stumble over the mounds, stinging them viciously. The ants' venom, which can cause coma in allergic individuals, produces the painful burning sensation that gives the ants their name...
Died. Ranieri Mazzilli, 65, Acting President of Brazil briefly during the 1960s; following surgery; in Sao Paulo. Mazzilli first occupied the presidential palace during a tense 1961 impasse (when conservative soldiers threatened to block the accession of Leftist Vice President Joào Goulart) helping to reconcile the conflict and avert civil war. He again served as President-for twelve days-following the 1964 overthrow of Goulart...
...hears that we must maintain a huge and powerful military in order to defend the free world. I agree. I only wonder about the company we keep in this free world. Does it include Franco? President Park of South Korea? President Thieu? The military junta in Chile? Or Brazil? Does it include the recent military leaders of Greece to whom we gave millions of dollars in military...