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With that chilling calculation, spelled out in a note left in U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick's Cadillac in Rio, a group of Brazilian terrorists last week launched a fantastic-and successful-caper worthy of Mission: Impossible. Expanding on a terror technique already familiar in Latin America, leftists kidnaped the U.S. diplomat, blackmailed South America's most powerful government, sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti...
Whither Barataria. At the government's request, a three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said...
...congratulate you on your excellent article on la causa [July 4]. As volunteer workers in La Joya of the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, my wife and I discovered a very simple and beautiful people. It hurt to see them work so hard and receive and have so little. It hurt to see the ignorant prejudice against which they must struggle and the very poor living conditions of so many. As a nurse, my wife saw health problems we believed no longer existed...
There is no one more serious than a character in a farce. The mirth belongs solely to the audience; if a performer cracks a smile, he crumbles the whole absurd structure. No one knows the rules better than Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, That Man from Rio...
...only comic equal in this production is Leland Moss, as the homosexual Rio Rita. Not content to play the stage queen (masculine) as a simple grotesque, Moss maintains some semblance of delicacy. If the way he kept jumping up and down in his seat is any indication, the flamer of a middle-aged fag who ended up in the seat next to me simply loved Rita--so I guess Moss also puts in a pretty credible performance. At any rate, he is the only actor on stage who manages to stay in character for the entire evening, which in this...