Word: braziller
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...hardly a major revelation. But Ortega was full of bravado as he climbed out of an East German airplane onto the tarmac in Managua. "Our country is sovereign, not one more state of the United States," he said. "We don't need permission to go to Moscow, Paris, Brazil or Montevideo...
...Congress. After Ronald Reagan took office, the Administration arranged to have France take over the U.S. fuel-supply contract, thus . maintaining the integrity of the Tarapur safeguards, at least until the original supply agreement expires in 1993. Similar efforts were undertaken by the White House to avoid confrontations with Brazil and South Africa on long- standing nuclear-fuel agreements. Without such efforts, the nonproliferation system might be in worse trouble today. Says an official of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "Safeguards work when there is a cooperative effort to maintain them. When the relationship is adversarial, they...
...abjure the nonproliferation treaty should be encouraged to follow is that of France. Despite their refusal to sign the treaty, the French as long ago as 1968 declared that they would abide by the accord in demanding international safeguards from any country that sought to buy their technology. Both Brazil and Argentina have followed the same practice in recent deals with China; such behavior should be applauded when appropriate and, if possible, rewarded...
...concerned." Indeed, a new generation of nuclear powers, and would-be powers, is maturing. Known among experts as the "phantom proliferators," these countries are contributing the most significant uncertainties about the future of nonproliferation. The phantoms are India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa and, to a lesser degree, Argentina and Brazil...
...traditional dogmas about both the nature of Christ and the authority of bishops and priests. Kung was forbidden to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, and Schillebeeckx's writings are still being examined. Last week the Vatican announced a disciplinary step against another scholar, Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 46, Brazil's leading advocate of liberation theology. It ordered him not to publish, lecture or edit religious journals for an unspecified period, presumably one year...