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Just ten years ago it was called the United States of Brazil-a functioning democracy with a representative government patterned on the American model. There, however, comparison with the U.S. ended. Although Brazil was the giant of South America, with about half its 6,888,000-sq.-mi. land mass...
What is important is the remarkable stability and success of Brazil's decade-old right-wing dictatorship. Its achievement has far-reaching implications, a fact that President Nixon accurately noted in an ebullient 1971 salute to the visiting Medici: "As Brazil goes, so will the rest of the Latin...
...ideal, even the Continent's vaunted " Year"-seems dead, or nearly so. Only twelve months ago, Western Europe appeared to be moving euphorically toward political and economic integration. Building on a successful customs union and a common agriculture program, leaders of the Common Market nations envisioned a true Continental community by the end of the decade. The vision is fading fast. Europe has settled into a state of dejection and disarray. So gloomy is the mood that some of the most dedicated pan-Europeanists are even questioning the very future of traditional parliamentary democracy...
One deep source of friction, accentuated by the Yom Kippur War and the Middle East oil cutback, is Europe's relationship to the U.S. Is Europe, as most of its governments desire, to retain close economic, political and defense ties with Washington? Or, as the French maintain, must the...
"Compared with this place," complained an African diplomat recently, "Russia is a roaring democracy." He was referring to the Central African Republic, a Texas-size country of some 2 million people, most of whom are illiterate. With no railroads, no direct access to the sea and only 120 miles of...