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...Since 1965, the number of slum dwellers in Rio has risen from 450,000 to a staggering 1.7 million. Lacking adequate sanitation, schooling and jobs, the ramshackle favelas have become breeding grounds for crime and violence, out of which have come the countercrime and violence of the vigilantes. Explains Eduardo Fagundes, who is the present head of the Brazilian bar, "Ten years ago the death squads received open support from higher authorities. Now they act on the belief that the legal system is completely inert...
FILUMENA by Eduardo de Filippo...
There is a narrow line between sentimentality and mawkishness, and not many writers can walk it without falling into the swamp of syrupy sugar waiting below. Eduardo de Filippo, the Italian playwright, is a rare exception. Filumena, which ran for two years in London, may be the easiest, most companionable show on Broadway. It is warm, undemanding and, in its own modest way, always enjoyable...
Three years ago, World Bank President Robert S. McNamara asked Brandt to head a private study on the unsettled and potentially explosive relations between industrialized and developing countries. Joining Brandt were 17 other luminaries, including such former heads of government as Chile's Eduardo Frei, Britain's Edward Heath and Sweden's Olof Palme. Americans on the Brandt commission were Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., and Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Wall Street investment bank of Lehman
...Molotov cocktails. In short order, the embassy was peacefully occupied, and the Indians announced that they would hold a news conference at noon. In another part of the building were Spain's Ambassador Máximo Cajal y López, Guatemala's former Vice President Eduardo Caceres Lehnhoff and onetime Foreign Minister Adolfo Molina Orantes. They immediately ended their meeting to begin negotiations with the intruders. As government security forces drew up in front of the embassy, the Ambassador called for their withdrawal, believing a peaceful settlement was in sight...