Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which ran last week in Rio's Correio de Manhā, would have been unthinkable a few months ago. For all their recurrent economic and political crises, the Brazilians are traditionally a gentle, urbane people who believe that any problem on earth can be solved by jeito, the artful...
...over Brazil, leftists are fighting rightists, peasants are threatening landholders, unions are threatening everyone; even the military is torn by dissension. Last week, encouraged by Communist labor leaders, more than 700 sailors and marines holed up for two days in Rio's Metallurgical Workers Union building, yelling "We want reforms" and "We want food...
...rebellion, the left-wing marine commander resigned, later to be restored; then the conservative navy minister resigned, to be replaced by one of the navy's most outspoken leftists. The new minister meekly gave the mutinous servicemen full pardons and weekend passes. But for several tense hours, Rio was a trigger pull away from widespread violence-even civil...
...mara is known from Rome to Rio as the most outspoken figure in the Brazilian church. At a recent Vatican Council session, he seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will...
...mara goes about his business as if transistorized. Eyes, arms, legs and mind are always in a flurry of motion. While Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio, he consistently upstaged the doughty Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime de Barros Câmara (no kin). Helder Câmara's charity bazaars have been social occasions for Brazil's jet set, and always immensely profitable. In public relations he was a pro: "What is not used in the house of the wealthy is wealth in the house of the poor." When Pope Paul (then Giovanni Battista Montini) visited Brazil...