Word: braziller
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...Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro has already agreed in principle to such a meeting...
...with the word ceremony in the title is likely to involve some kind of sexual initiation cum tribal rite. Nor man Walker's Ceremonials - based on a surprisingly tame and even melodious score by Dissonant Composer Alberto Ginastera-is true to type. It appears to be set in Brazil, or perhaps Inca-era Peru. The curtain rises to disclose a corps of dancers entwined in suggestively statuesque poses. Later, most of the couples writhe languidly on the floor in what might generously be regarded as orgasmic abandon. According to one associate of the company, Ceremonials is jokingly referred...
...than the year before. For the first time in two years there is enough wheat to come close to meeting demand in the months ahead. Australia alone has just harvested 440 million bushels, more than double last year's crop. Adequate supplies of livestock feed also seem likely. Brazil's record soybean harvest is now being sold round the world and, after a disappearance of a year and a half, Peruvian anchovies, used as a livestock feed supplement, are again being caught. The rise in world farm production should ease demand pressure on this fall...
...Many thanks for your article on conditions in Brazil [March 25]. It is tragic that the American public remains, as a whole, ignorant of one of the largest and most dynamic areas of the world...
Americans who want to further the cause of human rights and social justice must be embarrassed to see our nation giving moral and financial support to oppressive governments like Brazil's. The severity of the poverty in places like Sao Paulo or Recife ought to demand of us a dramatic response. The brave example of men like Dom Helder Camara, a man struggling to bring justice to his people, should draw more than just a footnote acknowledgment...