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...POLITICAL PRISONERS. "We express our solidarity with those who are actually working for the liberation of men, in particular with those who are exiled, imprisoned, or tortured because of this involvement." Among the prisoners singled out: Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, who for the past ten years has been either in prison or in exile in Angola, seven Brazilian Dominicans accused of being members of a terrorist group, and the Berrigan brothers, now in prison for destroying U.S. Government draft files. The resolution also referred to "many others whose names cannot be publicly mentioned"-a reference presumably including some imprisoned...
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
...drams of gold a link. But in Minas Gerais' old capital of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the wealth also brought Brazil's first real intellectual and artistic atmosphere, and its first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered, then beheaded Tiradentes...
...than a month's wages contributed by each member of the samba club. The money comes from savings, from stickups, from the world's oldest profession, from pay-as-you-guzzle drinking parties. But everyone contributes, and everyone wants to dance. Says Salgueiro's Carnival Director Joaquim Casemiro, known to his fellows as "Droopy Drawers": "I direct them only with a whistle. I don't need a gun or a knife. I've never had to shoot anyone yet in Salgueiro to get them to dance...
...Brazilian Author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1830-1008) wrote with irony and humor of the Brazilian soul...