Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil-Rights-Bill type of seminar, where each student seems intent on leading a filibuster. In one course I took in the Department of G******* a student seemed fixated on the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. Whether the day's discussion focused on the plight of agricultural laborers in Brazil, the trade union movement in Argentina, or the economic infrastructure of Venezuela, this loquacious student would ask how it compared with Zapata's noble effort in the Mexican mountains, and then proceed with an interminable, well-documented response. I took to letting out extended sighs during the class, punctuated every...
...took the decision that we would not say anything that indicated either support or opposition--that we would avoid what we had done in Brazil in 1963 where we rushed out by recognizing the government. We instructed the ambassador that he could not establish diplomatic contact and that if he were approached he would send his military attaches to maintain the contact...
...spring approached and temperatures rose last week in southern Brazil, medical authorities cautiously expressed hope that the country's, and perhaps the hemisphere's, worst meningitis epidemic in history might be abating. But in the São Paulo area, where the disease has struck hardest, the death rate was still high. Estimates of the total number of cases there rose to 20,000 and deaths to as many as 3,000, but firm figures were unobtainable, partly because of censorship. In Porto Alegre, and in communities as far north as the Amazon, the disease was still...
Meningitis-inflammation of the parchment-like covering of the brain and spinal cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those...
...Brazil produces no vaccine of its own; so far it is making do with 235,000 doses of type A vaccine imported from France and awaiting arrival of 300,000 type C doses from the U.S. That would hardly be enough to stem the meningitis tide. In São Paulo, of some 2 million children, only 75,000 have been inoculated so far, and it seems certain that many more metal cases and coffins will yet be needed before Brazil's epidemic ends...