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Last week, in the Congress at Rio, Deputy Nelson Carneiro argued for a bill which would punch a loophole in the constitution by providing annulments for incompatibility-under strict controls. The impossibility of legally ending a marriage, he believed, was the root of intolerable matrimonial tangles in Brazil. At every pause in his 98-page speech, Carneiro was rebutted by a sharp-witted Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Arruda Camara, who is also a Deputy. Monsignor Arruda held out against the slightest relaxation of the constitutional provision. Cried he to Carneiro: "Where the constitution says 'marriage is an indissoluble...
...just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
Many a delegate thought that the Amazon could wait, but Scientists Paulo de Barredo Carneiro, biologist, and Carlos Chagas, biophysicist, were in no waiting mood. To fellow delegates, they kept hammering their points. Sample: "If [the Amazon] could be brought into food production, the world would be able to support its population." Last week they won. UNESCO set up an Amazon international institute, and appropriated $100,000 to get it going...
...action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable, the chancelleries of Europe were astonished at his action...