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Last January, for example, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel dismissed General Eduardo D'Avila Mela, the commander of the second army in Sao Paulo and a notorious advocate of torture. That seemed to reduce the mistreatment of prisoners in the city, but there was a flurry of new charges that prisoners in Rio were being tortured. Some civil rights activists believe that the São Paulo torturers simply shifted their operations to Rio. "There is a national network of torturers," says one ex-prisoner and torture victim; "they coordinate their work. It is a system and therefore very powerful...
Married. Hiroo Onoda, 54, the Japanese Imperial Army lieutenant who continued to wage World War II as a lonely guerrilla in the jungles of the Philippines until 1974; and Machie Onoki, 38, a tea ceremony instructress whom Onoda met in a Tokyo restaurant; in Sao Paulo, Brazil, not far from the ranch that Onoda now runs...
Flying Down to Rio is more than an old movie to Singer-Actress Raquel Welch, 33. It's becoming a habit. During her nightclub tour of South America in February, Raquel showed up at Rio's carnival on the elbow of Paulo Pil-la, 32, a former public relations man. Recently she ventured south again to spend eight days with Paulo in Buzios, a few more in Petrdpolis, followed by a final fling on the Copacabana. Raquel, said observers, appeared to be apaixonada. In rough Portuguese, that means bonkers about Pilla. The twosome evaded publicity until their last...
...Paulo Moreira Dias
...Smith was clearly one of the most gifted colorists on either side of the Atlantic. This was acknowledged (amid much protest from the French) when in 1967 he won the grand prize at the São Paulo Biennale. His use of color was radiant without facile sweetness, and he could move across the spectrum with an assurance similar to that of natural pitch in a musician. But, as he recalls, "I realized I couldn't spend my life painting cigarette packets, and the structure of my early pieces was beginning to look adventitious...