Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazzaville). But the Pope did not "internationalize" the college as much as some progressives had hoped he might. Eight Italians are among the appointees, bringing the total number of Italian cardinals to 41. France follows with 13, the U.S. with twelve, an all-time high. France, Spain, Australia and Brazil each got two new cardinals, and there was one each for Germany, Portugal, Pakistan, Colombia, Poland, Argentina, Mexico and Japan. The Polish nominee-Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek, 67, of Wroclaw-brings the number of Polish cardinals to three, a sign of the Vatican's appreciation of Polish Catholics' devotion...
...eighth of 18 children. Archbishop of San Juan since 1964, he is an amiable, moderate conservative who often puts in a 16-hour day but stays out of the island's political battles. One name was notably missing from the five other Latin Americans to get red hats: Brazil's famed prelate of the poor, Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife. But Dom Helder did not go unrewarded. The same day the papal list became public, he was chosen for an honor of a different kind. For his work in behalf of social justice...
Sewell is 32 years old and looks like a strange cross between Abraham Lincoln and Mick Jagger. A graduate of Brazil's National School of Fine Arts, he also attended the University of Minnesota while running an art gallery in Minneapolis that displayed his neck tie designs. He visited California on a vacation once and decided to stay. Sewell's interest didn't run toward gallery art anyway, so once in California he became what he calls "an environmental artist." Now the proprietor of the Venice Flea Market, a Los Angeles head shop, Sewell says what he wants...
...Brazil is three years into its most ambitious plan to teach adults to read and write. Since the program, called Mobral (Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetizaçāo), started in 1970, more than 3,000,000 adults have achieved at least basic literacy; that number is expected to quintuple by 1980. To reach Brazil's 15 million illiterates (26% of the population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing...
Senegal, Bolivia, Jamaica and even Brazil's mother country, Portugal, have all inquired about Mobral. Foreign observers may need convincing, but at least one Brazilian legislator is certain of the program's value. When the town council of the city of Campinas convenes, Councilwoman Clara de Oliveira says she will propose the inclusion of 150 prostitutes in the program. She is convinced that the ladies assumed their profession for want of education...