Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Boston College President J. Donald Monan: "He has come to personify the most appealing values of Christianity. Its compassion, its understanding, its courage." In Rio, which the Pope visited in 1980, a resident spoke last week with corrupted theology but purity of spirit: "Everything improved here after his visit. He was a father to the people, a real god." But to liberated priests and nuns, to lay Catholics vexed over divorce and birth control, to political autocrats and to affluent, secularized Westerners, he has also been a bearer of razor-edged messages...
...five out of 27" statistic mentioned above will only get worse unless an effort is made to generate an increasing number of scholars in areas on the other side of the iron and bamboo curtains, and south of the Rio Grande. Failing to introduce these unfamiliar fields at an early stage of a student's education will only serve to decrease his interest. And in any case, tutors generally describe the topics less familiar to sophomores as the most intellectually stimulating...
Nearly two decades after he and some chums relieved the Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in 1963, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, 51, left his Rio de Janeiro beach-front apartment for a local barbecue-and-beer hall. Before he had time to finish his first drink, two men wrestled him out the front door and into the back of a waiting Volkswagen bus. It took less than a minute...
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
...with the Western Overthrust Belt, which stretches through the Intermountain West from Canada to the Rio Grande, the Eastern strip takes its name from the geological folding and overlapping that occur when mountain ranges are forced upward through sedimentary rock. Some oilmen estimate that such formations in the Western Overthrust states could hold as much as 13 billion bbl. of crude, or more than two-thirds of the amount that might be contained in the Alaskan North Slope...