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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...links are not merely with Arabs. Fidel Castro's Cuban regime has so far trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than...
...event in Miguel Pereira was the first national women's congress held in Brazil, heartland of Latin American machismo, in 26 years. For all the fretting of the onlooking males, however, the meeting hardly foreshadowed a feminist revolution. For three days the women-white, mostly middleaged, middle class-hammered out resolutions on such matters as day-care centers and drugs, but that was about as far as they cared to go. Delegate Cilésia Furtado, 38, sighed that she was "turned off by most Women's Libbers in the U.S." It seems, she complained, "that women there...
Miguel Pereira notwithstanding, Brazil has not proved to be promising ground for the women's movement. True, it was one of the first Latin American countries to give women the vote (in 1932), but not until 1962 did the Congress strike down the old civil code provisions that put married women on an equal footing with prodigals, savages, minors and the insane. Antidiscrimination laws are on the books, but they are not enforced; Brazilian women are paid about 70% of what men are given for the same jobs...
Informed by a Latin tradition of female domesticity that has annealed over several generations, the women simply have little inclination to get involved in politics, sexual or otherwise. That even goes for Miguel Pereira. "I'm the mayor of the city," Aristolina de Almeida says, "but at home the head of the family is still my husband...
...seems, lodging a complaint about vermin and bad plumbing. His rage remains unexplained, and Norah, who has taken him in, is too busy fussing over him and wrestling with him on the bed to pay it much mind. She does become concerned, however, when she hears loud Latin music blasting from behind his locked door and two distinctly different voices speaking Spanish when Joel claims he is alone. Norah sends Joel to a woman psychiatrist (Lovelady Powell), but she isn't much help, being apparently as puzzled about him as the rest of us. "I never understood...