Word: rio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technically, the OAS ministers are meeting to amend the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the Treaty of Rio), under which the embargo was initially imposed. The aim was to drop the two-thirds majority provision on the lifting of sanctions and replace it with a simple majority vote. The change requires a two-thirds majority, but at least 14 of the 21 Rio Treaty signers were expected to go along...
Lighter than helium and just about as dense, this adventure farce is a pleas ant enough way to pass a little time. Di rector Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio, Cartouche) has a blithe liking for unlikely situations and hapless heroics...
...that U.S. bombers were not on their way. "Don't run for the air-raid shelters," he said. "Let us celebrate the great victory." The citizens of Hanoi needed no encouragement. Normally the most staid and restrained of people, they exploded in an all-day celebration that rivaled Rio's carnival in exuberance...
...Thief of Paris, 5:30, 9:35. That Man From Rio...
...cafe fronting Rio's Copacabana, a French bureaucrat from Aerospatiale, sipping Campari and soda on the rocks, extols the virtues of the Exocet missile to a cadre of entranced Brazilian admirals. In a Persian Gulf capital, a U.S. military attache prepares a top-secret memo listing the weaknesses of the host country's armed forces. In the lobby of a Zurich hotel, a trader who arranges sales of slightly used rifles and mortars ?a "bedroom dealer" in the jargon of the trade?haggles softly with the representative of a Third World guerrilla movement...