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Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
...Ernesto B. Villalva Quezon City, Philippines...
...meetings on her schedule. There she will have to defend her husband's refusal to sell an extra $50 million in arms to the rightist regime, his statements on human rights violations, and his opposition to Brazil's purchase of a nuclear power plant from West Germany. Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel has agreed to receive her with all due correctness ?but may well have some pointed questions...
...passionate advocate of civil liberties (and good cigars), Amsterdam has submitted more than 100 briefs to the Supreme Court. Among the cases in which he has been involved: Ernesto Miranda, Martin Luther King, Gary Gilmore. In 1972, with Amsterdam representing 450 of the 600 convicts on death row, the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the haphazard enforcement of capital punishment was unconstitutional. Now that the court has upheld some death-penalty laws, he says his strategy is to fight "to keep as few people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally...
...only for that reason, the elections last week of aldermen and mayors in 3,968 municipalities had more than local import. Their significance was further heightened by the intense nationwide campaign waged by President Ernesto Geisel, 68, the Brazilian military's hand-picked chief of state. Though securely ensconced in his own job as President until 1979, Geisel jetted through 16 of Brazil's 21 states, kissing babies, cutting ribbons and shaking every hand in sight like any vote-hungry candidate. Along the way, he invested much of his personal prestige on behalf of local candidates...