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...story begins harmlessly enough, spotlighting the young doctor Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), as he struts his way through a small Argentine town near the Paraguay border. The handsome drifter, Plarr is half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay...
...things along, but the screenwriters follow the "women should be seen and not heard" school of filmmaking. Perhaps she was hushed up lest her authentic accent draw attention to Gere's flat American tones, made all the more irritating by his self-consciously correct pronunciation throughout of the word "Paraguay...
Brazil and Paraguay should be congratulated for building the largest hydroelectric dam in the world [Nov. 15]. But if the dam produces power equivalent to only a "600,000-bbl.-a-year oil well," it is not a very good investment. You obviously mean...
Itaipu is a binational public work of truly pharaonic proportions. More than 640 ft. high, its concrete, earthwork and rock construction stretches for almost five miles across the 2,050-mile-long Paraná River, which divides Brazil and Paraguay. Its central concrete span alone stretches 4,059 ft., more than three-quarters of the entire length of the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. More than 15.6 million cu. yds. of cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that...
Leading European electric companies reportedly paid as much as $140 million in payoffs and kickbacks to win a share of the business in the construction of the $10 billion Itaipu Dam that is being built jointly by Brazil and Paraguay. Reports a U.S. business executive who watched the bidding unfold: "The European managers had unlimited authority. They paid cash into half a dozen Swiss bank accounts, and the money trickled down...