Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austro-Hungarian empire who now calls himself Dr. Hapsburg, lives in West Germany and writes and lectures. The leading claimant to the French throne, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris, lives in the country that, but for history, he might have ruled. Even Brazil shelters a would-be monarch: Alexander II of Yugoslavia, whose father, the deposed King Peter, died of pneumonia in California...
...military in Latin American politics has, in general, differed little from one country to the next. In Argentina, in 1943, the army intervened and ousted a government characterized by political in-fighting that had created in the eyes of the military an image of civilian incompetence. In Brazil, in 1964, the armed forces assumed power when a left-leaning civilian president created deep social conflicts by his increasingly radical policies. In Chile, in 1973, the military took control of the country when it decided that the civilian government had adopted social and economic policies that had caused intense national instability...
...Chilean situation differed from other Latin American national experiences in important aspects. Whereas the armed forces in such countries as Argentina and Brazil had a history of involvement in politics at the time of their coups, the Chilean military had abstained from political activity for 46 years. And whereas the previous experience with government had produced a certain level of political sophistication among Argentine and Brazilian military leaders, in Chile the military junta, on September 11, found itself in an unfamiliar position. Insulated from politics for decades, it had developed a parochial mentality comprised of intense anti-Marxism, a distrust...
...Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and Harvard's Afro-American Studies department have collaborated to produce Kindred Spirits, the African Diaspora. Ten black artists, from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil are exhibiting in the show, which was organized by E. Barry Gaither, the Museum's curator and an instructor in the Afro-American Studies department here. The purpose of the exhibit is to show the similarity of themes and styles used by Black artists around the world, and through them to make a statement on the kinship of Black people. The show will...
...jungle goes Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, late of the Imperial Japanese Army. Since last March when Onoda emerged from the Philippine jungle where he personally continued to wage World War II for 29 years, the doughty infantryman has been mulling over his future habitat. Finally he settled on Brazil. "It offered me many more job opportunities than Japan," he said as he learned how to samba in a Rio nightspot. He was not referring to Brazil's secret police, who war against enemies of the state, but to a farm in the interior run by 36 Japanese families. Before...