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...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...
...readers and viewers become increasingly preoccupied with the economy and other domestic problems, more and more news organizations feel free to skimp on foreign coverage. The Baltimore Sun will eliminate its Rio de Janeiro bureau in June, the Chicago Tribune has closed its Paris bureau, and the Washington Star-News this month is recalling its single foreign correspondent, Hong Kong-based Henry Bradsher. Costly wire and features services are also going. The Sacramento Union has saved as much as $80,000 a year by ordering its Associated Press ticker removed (and taking on the far less expensive Chicago Daily News/Sun-Times...
Cassio Fonseca Rio de Janeiro...
...Philippine jungle where he personally continued to wage World War II for 29 years, the doughty infantryman has been mulling over his future habitat. Finally he settled on Brazil. "It offered me many more job opportunities than Japan," he said as he learned how to samba in a Rio nightspot. He was not referring to Brazil's secret police, who war against enemies of the state, but to a farm in the interior run by 36 Japanese families. Before deciding to turn cattleman, however, Onoda will publish his memoirs, Thirty Years in Lubang, and visit New York City...