Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of the "Ceara solution" spread, other linha dura officers took it as a hunting license. They ousted the mayor of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba...
There is a certain element of U.S. society that has always had a tender spot in its heart for Brazil-the crooks who go flying down to Rio to escape the law. Alone among hemisphere nations, Brazil has long refused to sign an extradition treaty with Washington, preferring to let bygones be gone. No one knows how many U.S. criminals have fled over the years, but they numbered in the hundreds...
...acre land for $2 to $10 an acre. Now it appears that he and anyone else the U.S. wants may be coming home. Last week, after 17 years of formal negotiation, the U.S. and Brazil exchanged extradition agreements, effective Dec. 17. Says a U.S. embassy official in Rio: "Any criminal who flees to Brazil would be plain stupid...
...Rio Conchos lays money on the somewhat odd proposition that the West was won by losers. Its motley heroes are an incompetent Army officer (Stuart Whitman), his much-abused Negro aide (Cleveland Fullback Jim Brown), a half-breed cutthroat (Tony Franciosa), and a grizzled lay-about (Richard Boone) who loves red-eye as passionately as he loathes redskins...
...Brien. It is two years since Appomattox, but O'Brien, nursing a mad dream that he will resume the Civil War, has established himself in a sort of alfresco plantation house as commander in chief of 1,000 or more Apache Confederate troops. Crazy, sure. But if Rio Conchos is no High Noon, it is a tough-minded little western that cuts the television competition down to size. It makes most of the saddlesoap operas that jockey for space on the home screen look like Brand-X horseplay...