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...that is not linked indissolubly to education." Last week Costa received unwanted backing for that view. In the most violent wave of demonstrations since the army seized power in 1964, Brazil's high school and university students went on an angry rampage throughout most of the country. In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of students boiled through downtown streets, chanting antigovernment slogans and taunting police. By midweek, the demonstrations had spread to nearly all of the country's 22 states. Schools and universities were closed down, and the army virtually imposed martial law. Troops waded into mobs with tear...
...outbreak was triggered at a routine student demonstration two weeks ago near a branch of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Marching in protest against the food served at the university cafeteria, students began throwing insults and then rocks at the police who had been called to the scene. Suddenly, the police started swinging their clubs and shooting. In the melee that followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week...
...Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by restoring 24 fine 19th century Victorian houses on the fairgrounds, and the area adjacent bristles with new construction, including the 445-room Hilton Palacio Del Rio, which overlooks HemisFair from the bank of the San Antonio River...
...people, hundreds of cattle and horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks by the queens' offspring. Dogs, cats, turkeys and pigs have died. Last month a swarm descended on a group of children playing in a park in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio. Firemen had to fight them 1 with flamethrowers. In another city a police dog diverted a swarm attacking his eight-year-old master, saving the boy but dying of multiple stings a half-hour later...
Learned with Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...