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Carter tried to downplay differences on arriving at his next stop, Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil. Its ruling generals angrily canceled military and foreign aid agreements with the U.S. last year after the Administration criticized the country's record on human rights. Also, Brazil resents U.S. opposition to its plans to buy nuclear reactors from West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that...
...Overseer said, however, that a plan to stack the board with financiers and industrialists would create an imbalance that would make the board more likely to downplay its non-fundraising functions...
...surrounding buildings, the crowd howled, "Biermann, Biermann"-referring to Poet-Balladeer Wolf Biermann, one of many dissident East German artists and intellectuals who have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were unable to downplay the riot, which was seen by some Western diplomats. Eyewitnesses reported that one policeman was stabbed to death and another killed when rioters beat him on the head with a beer crate during the three-hour melee. At least 200 young people were injured, and 700 others were held by police...
Belarus salesmen downplay the origin of the tractors (though it is hardly a secret: name plates, partly in Cyrillic lettering, identify them as MADE IN THE U.S.S.R.) and often counsel reluctant customers that "it's better to trade than to shoot." Nonetheless, Chambers admits that some farmers simply refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk...
...last March, and warm ones with four key Arab leaders: Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Syria's Hafez Assad, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. Despite serious and perhaps insurmountable policy differences with Israel, Administration officials are doing their best to downplay the prospect of a clash between Carter and Begin. "There will be significant differences of opinion," says one official involved with the advanced planning, "but they are not going to be throwing chairs at each other...