Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name has only recently become a marketable item north of the Rio Grande, but in much of the world, millions of faces, mostly female and mostly over 25, light up when he is mentioned. Feminine "ohs" reverberate from Madrid, where Iglesias was born and raised, to Montevideo. "He rouses middle-aged women, especially the depressed ladies with no dreams," says Italian Psychologist Erika Kaufmann. "When he sings, they come alive. I call him the sex symbol of the menopause...
...that 30 have already sent him letters of support. Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider of Fortaleza, former president of the Latin America-wide bishops conference, may even sit at the defense table in Rome. But not all the Brazilian bishops are so sympathetic. Eugenio Cardinal de Araújo Sales of Rio de Janeiro, a leading conservative, warns that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of pastors and the faithful...
Bargains are harder to locate in South America, where many businesses gear their prices to whatever wealthy tourists are willing to spend. Nightclubbers currently pay $13 a person for the show at Rio's Plataforma I; it was $10 last year and $7 in 1980. Says Club Director Jota Martins: "We don't think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks...
...clearing near the remote Rio Azul deep in the jungles of northern Guatemala, workmen were methodically chipping away at a boulder-filled shaft. As the narrow passage dropped abruptly under a rocky outcropping, Archaeologist Grant Hall suddenly spotted a streak of dark...
...trail that led to the tomb began in 1962 when an employee of the Sun Oil Co. discovered Mayan ruins near Rio Azul, five hours by land from the nearest town. The oil firm passed along the information to Professor Richard E.W. Adams, a Mayan archaeologist now at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Lacking funds, Adams could not explore the region until this year. In the meantime bands of looters had dug into the tombs of the 500-acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot...