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...Paulo, Brazil...
...Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
...retain the Congress, when other generals demanded its dissolution; the following year he was instrumental in pushing through a constitutional amendment that formally retained the Congress (though it was stripped of power). "Geisel has a military appearance but a civilian mind," says an editor in Sāo Paulo. "With Médici it was the other way around. Geisel is smarter and he seems to belong to no one. He has a chance...
...Paulo, Brazil...
...Paris, Picasso's lawyer announced that his widow and his son Paulo would respect a wish expressed by Picasso and donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...