Word: rio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials went unheeded. The director of the children's home was accused of beating his wards and supplying some of them to homosexuals. In a Manaus São detention home, eight hapless girls vainly attempted collective suicide by swallowing large doses of poisonous detergents and tranquilizers. In Rio, a 15-year-old boy, arrested for a series of thefts, told police: "I hate rich people, especially the children." Abandoned at seven, he had spent the following years shuttling between orphanages and detention homes. Yet another youngster recently was brought before a Rio magistrate...
...have illiterate seven-year-olds who say they are going to be doctors." At a São Paulo orphanage, the IQ of the youngsters ranges between 50 and 70; in the U.S., people with such scores are classified as mentally retarded. Says Irna Marilia Kaden, director of Rio's child welfare agency: "A person with psychological disorders and mental impairment, a sick person-a sick, fragile population-cannot act as an agent of development. And what's worse, he is a dead weight to be sustained by those who are healthy." For a nation whose population...
...exclaimed Walter Marques, a director of the Bank of Portugal, last week. So it had. President António Ramalho Eanes had ended a two-week-long government crisis by tapping his favorite industrial technocrat, Consulting Engineer Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 55, to follow Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares as Premier...
...coalition, thereby blocking the possibilities for any other multiparty government. Eanes' most likely option is to appoint an interim "presidential" government to hold office until scheduled national elections in 1980. If he does that, the leading contender for the Premier's job will be Colonel Mário Firmino Miguel, a political independent who served as Soares' Defense Minister. Firmino Miguel almost became Premier in 1974, when he was the choice of then President António de Spínola, but was forced aside by leftist army officers who eventually ousted Spínola. Now Firmino Miguel may get a second chance...
...everyday technical side of his film. He knows how to get the most out of a comic situation, and fortunately for this film, he can interplay a mediocre mystery with his major plot, as he did so well with Jean-Paul Belmondo in That Man From Rio...