Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the U.S. and Brazil began their latest round of talks on American fishing rights in Brazilian coastal waters three months ago, Brazil's Minister Ronaldo Costa hummed a few bars of a popular samba for U.S. Ambassador Donald McKernan...
...that the tune we're going to hear?" asked McKernan. It was indeed. Last week, when the two nations announced a territorial waters agreement, it was clear that Brazil had sambaed away with the talks...
Under the terms of the pact, the U.S. maintains in principle that it does not recognize Brazil's claim to 200-mile offshore sovereignty, but in fact it did just that. Up to 160 American-owned vessels at a time will be allowed to fish the rich shrimp waters along Brazil's coast. The U.S. accepted Brazil's right to board, search and seize shrimp boats that have committed infractions. Furthermore the U.S. will pay the Brazilian government $200,000 to help defray the costs of surveillance...
...itself are not yet clear. The company seems as powerful a multinational force as ever. It boasts more than 200 primary divisions and subsidiaries and countless sub-subsidiaries*on every continent, which among other things operate the hot line between Washington and Moscow, manufacture telephones in Australia, Brazil and Norway, and run the Hamilton mutual funds in the U.S. A consumer who became annoyed with ITT would have a difficult time boycotting it: he could not rent an Avis car, buy a Levitt house, sleep in a Sheraton hotel, park in an APCOA garage, use Scott's fertilizer...
...about this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...