Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Human World. It is on such trips abroad-three or four a year-that Dom Helder now pins many of his hopes, since in Brazil, he concedes, "we are crushed." At times he has used his foreign platforms for stinging denunciations of terror and torture in Brazil; more often he tries to prick the conscience of the First World for its complicity in the Third World's troubles. He had prepared a biting acceptance speech-not knowing there would be no time to deliver it-for the Harvard commencement. In it he assailed, among other things, "the greed...
...plot seemed like something out of Becket. The conspirator's accomplice, a poor man, was to go to the city of Recife in northeastern Brazil and there seek out a certain troublesome archbishop. "That priest," the accomplice was told, "must be eliminated." As it happened, the 1968 scenario was never played out. The would-be assassin was too softhearted to go through with the murder. Instead, he went to his intended victim, confessed the plot and warned him that others might...
...certain grace seems to touch the life of the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Dom Helder Pessoa Cãmara. Better known to the world simply as "Dom Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil...
...Outside Brazil, though, his name is very much alive-and widely honored. He has several times been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1973 received a "People's Peace Prize" in Norway-$300,000 raised by European church and student groups, trade unions and political parties. Last week he was at Harvard University to accept an honorary degree as a doctor of laws...
Died. Eurico Caspar Dutra, 89, conservative, taciturn President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Pre-eminently a soldier, Dutra rose through military ranks to become war minister to Strongman Getulio Vargas in 1936, belatedly latched onto the Allied wartime cause after years of vocal admiration for the Nazi forces, and was swept into the presidency following Vargas' ouster in 1945. Among the highlights of his honest, non-dictatorial but uninspired administration were the outlawing of the Communist Party and of casino gambling, at the time Brazil's most lucrative industry...