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...Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. The Rumanian leader told the Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil last week that his country "is determined not to accept any kind of nuclear weapons on its territory...
...church complains that children are being sent to other Marxist states for education. About 60 young Angolans are in Cuba to study citrus-farming techniques, and 150 more attend schools there to learn both Spanish and Marxism-Leninism. The protests have provoked government jitters. Angola's principal newspaper, Jornal do Luanda, recently called for a "struggle against rumors and rumormongering" that might prove "destabilizing." And the death penalty, which was abolished by the Portuguese a century ago, has been reinstated in cases of "counterrevolutionary activity...
Geisel had apparently won his gamble for a mandate-namely, a majority vote for ARENA candidates-but not by the margin he sought. As Columnist Carlos Castello Branco wrote in Jornal do Brasil, "This is a victory with the flavor of defeat." As expected, ARENA candidates won in Brazil's rural backlands, but MDB swept five of Brazil's largest cities by substantial margins...
...Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary Council that...
...detractors, but they do not raise the passions that its heroes do. Last week, as Brazil almost dissolved into pandemonium, the cause was not politics but soccer. When its team had defeated Italy 4-1 to win the World Cup in Mexico City, the country erupted in what Jornal do Brasil bannered as THE BIGGEST CARNAVAL IN HISTORY...