Word: pedro
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Later the members of Brazil's National Congress (which Geisel had closed for two weeks in 1977) applauded Carter after he made another endorsement of human rights. Federal Deputy Erasmo Martins Pedro, leader of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement, hailed Carter's views as "a response to the most profound demands of ethical consciousness and not of political conveniences dictated by the international situation...
...Portugese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered Brazil...
While it is true that Harvard occasionally admitted outstanding Third World scholars such as Don Pedro Albizu Campos and W.E.B. DuBois, these had been too few and far between...
Though anti-Somoza forces in Nicaragua have long been active, the agitation against the third in the line of family dictators increased dramatically last month following the still unexplained murder of La Prensa Editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a longtime Somoza foe. In protest, business groups launched an employers' strike, and they and other dissidents urged voters to boycott the elections. No fewer than 52 candidates pulled out of the campaign, and only a third of Nicaragua's 700,000 voters cast ballots. Somoza's candidates won, but the extent of the boycott was one more sign that...
...promised Panama $290 million in loans over the five years following ratification, plus $50 million in military aid over ten years. This income, says Pedro Rognoni, president of Panama's Industrial Association, "will not solve the economic problem-that will be solved only by production." There are many possibilities for development. The Cerro Colorado copper deposit, near...