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...when the games kick off in Italy this week, Americans would do well to join the 1.2 billion soccer nuts from Beijing to Sao Paulo who will be glued to their TV sets. Reason: for the first time in 40 years, the U.S. has a direct stake in the outcome of the World Cup, as a scrappy American squad takes the field along with 23 other national teams. Moreover, the U.S. is scheduled to be the host of the 1994 event, marking the first time that the World Cup championship will not be held in Europe or Latin America...
...Though presented as a new book, some of its narratives remain almost exactly the same -- Wiesenthal's pursuit of the police officer who arrested Anne Frank, for example. Others needed updating. In The Murderers Among Us, Wiesenthal located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues to suspect that he is still alive...
There was virtually no money in Brazil last week. The stock exchange in Sao Paulo registered zero transactions on Monday. Shopping centers were deserted, restaurants empty. Cash-strapped companies laid off thousands of employees. Most flights on Varig, Brazil's international air carrier, and Vasp, the domestic line, were either canceled or flew empty...
...article in Wednesday's Crimson incorrectly identified Paulo E. Palazzi '89. He is a project manager at the Medical School's Office of Technology Licensing and Industry-Sponsored Research, not the director...
Other alternative fuels are gaining popularity around the world. In smog- choked Sao Paulo, Brazilian drivers tank up with an ethanol blend that is 78% gasoline and 22% alcohol distilled from sugarcane. According to Illinois- based Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol blends account for 8% of all U.S. motor fuel. The mixture is readily available in parts of the Midwest at stations that display the gasohol symbol, an ear of corn...