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SOUTH AMERICA'S present political plight can be summed up in one stark statistic: three out of every four of the continent's citizens now live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
Strong Winds. Presumably, Alves will be one of them-though the man who touched off the whole furor was no where to be found. Once they were allowed to resume publication, newspapers gave the story banner play, but they understandably shied away from overt editorial comment. Rio's Jornal do Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind...
...many of his years of research and several of his published works have been on the huge problems of his own country, Israel, and he talks about his land like a sociologist, with greater objectivity and less overt passion than most Israelis, but also with a dash of warmth and a sense of wistfulness for the solutions to the problems he is describing...
...overt effects of the drug are transient, according to the study--the smoker reaches a high within 15 minutes and shows no effects from the drug three hours later...
...might be concluded from these findings that exposure of children to punished antisocial or other types of models is likely to result in little overt imitative behavior. Nevertheless, the observed behavior is learned and may be exhibited on future occasions given appropriate instigation, the instruments necessary for performing the imitative acts, and the prospect of sufficiently attractive positive rewards contingent on the successful execution of the behavior...