Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls, buttons, T shirts and bumper stickers. Climbers scaled one of the peaks that surround the city and mounted a 35-ft.-high cloth banner bearing the slogan. At Maracanã stadium, the huge electronic Scoreboard flashed the words repeatedly during soccer matches. The climax came last week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times the six-hour rally had the flavor of carnaval, with a hot-air balloon...
...election of a successor to President João Figueiredo, 66, a retired general whose six-year term expires in March 1985. The government has decided that the choice will be made next January by a 686-member electoral college. But according to the latest polls, 80% of Brazil's voters want a direct say in choosing their next leader. The public mood also reflects a lack of confidence in the government's ability to deal with an economy beset by severe underemployment and unemployment (40%), runaway inflation (230%) and the Third World's highest foreign debt...
Bernie Steer Goiania, Brazil...
Nevertheless, the book cannot avoid leaving the reader with a vague, uncomfortable impression of sadness, pessimism, and frustration. Significantly, only two nations--Brazil and the UK in Northern Ireland--are cited for significant improvement during the past three years, and both have relatively high standards of living. And if any common denominator can be found in the most offensive regimes, it is poverty and poor living conditions. The study alludes to this basic problem...
...half to a country-by-country breakdown of the cases investigated by Al. Perhaps the most immediately shocking fact is a statistic, more than 90 countries in the world routinely practice torture, according to the study. These include some of the largest industrial notions: China, the Soviet Union, Brazil and India, to name but a few. Every continent save North America experiences torture: even our strongest ally, Britain, is knows to have used extensive police brutality in war-torn Northern Ireland...