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...Rio Piedras...
Brazil's Roman Catholic hierarchy last year issued a broad appeal for re form, and in several states of Brazil, priests and bishops are actively engaged in trying to help workers secure better wages, education and housing. Last week Dom Helder Câmara, Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio, warned that de lays in undertaking reforms of Latin America's social and economic structure "can be catastrophic...
...visitors, who find their pockets stuffed with string-tied wads of 500-and 1,000-cruzeiro bills. One effect of the new bills was to send the sinking cruzeiro into another downspin, from 850 per dollar to more than 900. " The new 5,000-cruzeiro notes," said a harried Rio exchange-currency broker last week, "are already obsolete." He is so right. Before the Brazilian Congress is a new proposal to authorize 10,000-cruzeiro bills...
...typical Fernandes performance, the kind that has lifted him to his position as prickliest political pundit in all Brazil. Starting out at 19 reporting for Rio de Janeiro's O Cruzeiro, he bounced from paper to magazine to paper, always making a success, always eventually quitting after a scrap with the boss...
Last week the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision freeing Fernandes. The confident columnist had already bought his ticket back to Rio where he promptly called a press conference. "I will continue to publish any information of interest, be it of a military nature or not," he said. Then he sat down and wrote about his arrest and army interrogations. He was not about to forgive and forget. He called his story "Diary of an Act of Despotism...