Word: costas
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President Arthur da Costa e Silva wisely ordered jumpy military police to stay in their barracks during the march, thus preventing a recurrence of violence that had shaken the capital the week before when police clashed with marching students. He could hardly be untroubled by the demonstration's theme: "Students and people against dictatorship." As speakers who orated during the five-hour march made clear, Brazilians are deeply dissatisfied with progress under Costa, who promised to humanize the government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that...
Impressed by the success of student protests elsewhere, Rio's students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each...
Garble. The Phoenician text has a pedigree almost as strange as the tale it tells. In 1872, a slave belonging to a landowner named Joaquim Alves de Costa supposedly found the inscription on a broken stone tablet on his sprawling estate in the tropical rain forests of Brazil's Paraíba state. Costa's son, a draftsman, made a copy of the baffling markings and sent it to the Brazilian
Last week the Brazilian Indians' plight caused a worldwide outcry that may just save them from extinction. Newspapers from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and Washington focused on their problems. An open letter asking help for the Indians was sent to Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva by a group of French anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, who set forth his philosophy of structuralism in Tristes Tropiques, which he wrote after studying the Brazilian Indian (TIME Essay, June 30, 1967). Meeting in Mexico, the sixth Interamerican Indigenist Congress demanded protection for Brazil's Indians, most of whom...
Though Lima's death detonated the violence, the underlying causes went much deeper. They centered on rising student impatience with Costa's failure to deliver on his inaugural promises of a year ago and ease Brazil's staggering problems of education. Despite assurances that he would "multiply the opportunities of education for all," the country's 41 universities remain rundown, ill-equipped and grossly understaffed; for lack of space, two qualified university applicants must be turned away for every one accepted. Costa is also spending only 7.7% of the national budget on education...