Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offensive in three areas: 1) "forcefully" broadcast the achievements of Western liberalism such as the multinational corporation-"arguably the most creative international institution of the 20th century"; 2) assert that "inequalities in the world may be not so much a matter of condition as of performance," citing Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore and other Third World success stories; 3) compare the political and civil liberties that the Third World countries "provide their own peoples [and] those which are common and taken for granted...
...applications from private firms, Washington's Office of Munitions Control approved sales to 136 countries totaling $8.3 billion. (Actual deliveries, of course, lag considerably behind sales.) This represents 46% of total world sales. Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to Italy and South Korea, armored personnel carriers to Jordan and Norway, heavy-duty CH-47 (Chinook) helicopters to Iran, Spain and South Viet Nam, destroyers to Chile, counterinsurgency equipment to the Philippines and C-130 Hercules air transports to Sweden and Zaire...
Latin America is also enmeshed in an arms buildup. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
There are less flamboyant ways of disconcerting rival salesmen. Representatives of the U.S.'s Northrop Corp. who were in Brazil selling the F-5 warplane discovered that their telephones had been tapped and their luggage rifled. At midnight they were awakened by jarring telephone calls; muffled voices threatened their lives unless they quickly left town. Some Northrop people suspect-but of course cannot prove -that the culprits were salesmen from a major competitor of the F-5 for sales to South American air forces...
...Estado would have been censored. Says Julio Mesquita: "Estado will not change its opinions. Under a totalitarian regime, we will be oppressed and continue to fight for freedom. Under a free regime, we will worry about the dangers and excesses of democracy. It's really easier for Brazil to change than it is for Estado to change...