Word: braziller
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...UCLA hematologist and veteran of the medical team that treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last year. Gale had just returned from Rio de Janeiro, where with an international group of physicians he had spent ten days treating six badly irradiated victims of a bizarre accident in Brazil with an experimental drug called GM-CSF. "When it comes to these disasters," concluded Gale, who will soon return to Rio, "all the handbooks on treatment will have to be rewritten...
Days later, Dr. George Selidovkin, a radiation specialist at Moscow's Hospital No. 6 who had been part of the Chernobyl medical team, arrived in Brazil after receiving an urgent plea from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The ten most severely irradiated patients, dressed in protective clothes, gloves, boots and caps, had already been flown aboard a military plane to the Marcilio Dias naval hospital...
...Brazilian political scientist, the 'distensao' was an effort to "perfect the institutionalization of the national security state and provide for more flexible political representation so as to decrease the levels of dissent and tension that had built up pressure." Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press...
...much fundamental change would these new political institutions involve? Focusing on process rather than result, Huntington dodged the issue; but he acknowledged that Geisel's "decompression" in the mid-'70s did not lead to real democratization in Brazil (p. 16). Brazilians, incidentally, tend to be harsher on Geisel, under whom the Brazilian military continued its dictatorial control behind a thin facade of indirect elections...
...Seidman '78, an Overseer and formerpresident of the Crimson, is writing adissertation in sociology at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, comparing labor movementsin South Africa and Brazil. She is grateful toGarth, Megan and Gavin for pointing outHuntington's contributions in South Africa.PhotoThemba NkosiSouth African workers in Durban in December,1985 celebrating the creation of a new democraticmovement, the Congress of South African TradeUnions...