Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recife, capital of Brazil's parched and impoverished Northeast, is a sizzling time fuse of a city. Its population of 900,000 has doubled in the past 15 years; more than 500,000 of its inhabitants live and starve in slums on stilts called mucambos. Who speaks for Catholicism in Recife is vitally important to the church in Brazil. Now, to be Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Pope Paul VI has picked a spunky little churchman who has never had a diocese or even a parish of his own. Overjoyed at being handed one of the toughest, most critical...
...Recife is the key post. The Northeast is in a state of prerevolution." Brazil's leading liberal Catholic intellectual, Alceu Amoroso Lima finds Helder Câmara to be "the right man for the right place. He is earmarked to become a cardinal. He can no longer be considered a purely Brazilian church personality...
...first in four years, was planned to be as informal as the French West Indies them selves. He scheduled a few speeches, a few toasts, quiet nights at the homes of the Guadeloupe and Martinique prefects, and a quick side trip down to French Guiana, perched on the northeast shoulder of South America. The islands may get no more aid, but De Gaulle's visit has already yielded one happy dividend. The Fort-de-France government house in Martinique just got its first lick of paint in 30 years...
France, then sloped east by northeast on a routine, 2½hour "navigational training mission." The flight plan called for the 700-m.p.h., twin-jet bomber to swing over Germany's beautiful Mosel Valley to Hahn airbase, then bank north to Bremerhaven before returning with zigzags and altitude changes to Hahn and home. The flight plan should have brought the plane and its three-man crew no closer to the border than 70 miles. But somewhere between Hahn and Bremerhaven somebody slipped. According to one U.S. Air Force official last week: "They were about 120 miles off course...
...From Red China, Ceylon is receiving desperately needed machinery and industrial products. As a quid pro quo, China is seeking to use Ceylonese ports as transshipment centers for ships carrying goods to Africa, Europe, and South Asia. The Chinese are paying special attention to Trincomalee, on Ceylon's northeast coast. Western diplomats are aware that Trincomalee might some day make an ideal submarine base...