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...funds were back in circulation. The remainder belonged to increasingly irate middle-class Brazilians who would not gain access to their money until September 1991. "The feeling was that ((Collor and his government)) did something very dramatic, and then they simply blew it off through bad management," says economist Edmar Bacha of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio. "That gave the impression that the rich got away with it again." The meltdown of the program rekindled inflation, which more than tripled to a rate of 12.9% last month. That set off new price hikes, which led workers to demand salary...
...BEAT BOBBY FISCHER by EDMAR MEDNIS 282 pages. Quadrangle...
Senior Master Edmar Mednis' How to Beat Bobby Fischer is a detailed anatomical study of an Achilles' heel. The Achilles is Fischer, the winningest chess master in history; of the 576 games he has played since he became U.S. champion at the incredible age of 14, he has won 327 and drawn 188. But even Fischer occasionally loses; in the past 16 years he has booted 61 games. To whom? At what age? Was he playing white or black? Did he blunder? Was he outgeneraled? Do any patterns of weakness appear? In the most intriguing chess manual...
...popular sensation during the booming 1920s was Colonel Percy Fawcett, English explorer who, with his son Jack, tried to find "the Lost Atlantis" in the Brazilian wilderness. They disappeared. Recently Brazilian reporter Edmar Morel returned to civilization with a ghost-pale savage named Dulipé, who he claimed was Jack Fawcett's son by a Kurikuro Indian woman. Last week a picture of Morel and Dulipé (see cut) reached the U.S. As photographed, Dulipé has all the characteristics of an albino, a not uncommon freak among South American Indians...
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