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...regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil's censored press that some educated people in Rio are surprised to learn that he is still alive...
...journalist, chose the boy's name from a dictionary rather than the calendar of saints but did not keep his son from studying for the priesthood. Ordained at 22, Father Camara soon moved into religious education-and flirted briefly with the Brazilian version of fascism before moving to Rio...
Died. Eurico Caspar Dutra, 89, conservative, taciturn President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Pre-eminently a soldier, Dutra rose through military ranks to become war minister to Strongman Getulio Vargas in 1936, belatedly latched onto the Allied wartime cause after years of vocal admiration for the Nazi forces, and was swept into the presidency following Vargas' ouster in 1945. Among the highlights of his honest, non-dictatorial but uninspired administration were the outlawing of the Communist Party and of casino gambling, at the time Brazil's most lucrative industry...
...secret police to stand in for the Emperor at various ceremonial and public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly sailed to Rio de Janeiro and eventually returned to Europe, where he lived as a diamond merchant in Verona...
After a couple of hours at Del Rio's, Jackson may pick up the younger sister of one of the A's former ball girls and drive her and her mother to a dermatologist to have the girl's acne checked. Jackson pays the bill for the examination and any follow-up care. "When you leave your friends," he says, "they should feel better-whether you gave them a dime or a dollar, ten minutes of your time, looked at them with a smile or just told them they looked great." In carrying out his philosophy...