Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even he intended. "The United States," he remarks in passing, "is in a very real sense the heart of the interamerican system." Looking at the hemisphere through North American eyes, this may seem credible. But for the better part of the 250 million people who live south of the Rio Grande, the Yankee and his institutions are strange and often repugnant animals. The fact that the United States with seven per cent of the world's population produces 50 per cent of the world's goods does not necessarily endear Uncle Sam to his Latin neighbors. When a Latin turns...
...just getting worse. Sucked up by a fierce inflationary spiral, the country's cost of living soared 45% between January and August, while the value of the cruzeiro tumbled 14%. At one point last week, 30 major walkouts were under way or immediately threatened-a streetcar strike in Rio, a railroad strike in Sao Paulo, a bank strike throughout the country...
Brazil could only be described as a diplomatic disaster. The few feeble cheers were drowned in the roar of protest from Roman Catholic churchmen and conservative organizations. Tito wanted to visit Rio and Sao Paulo; their governors flatly refused, saying they could not guarantee his safety. So for four days Tito hung around the backlands capital of Brasilia while President Joao Goulart wondered miserably what to do next. Tito's address to the joint session of Congress (on the growing importance of nonalignment in world affairs) was boycotted by four-fifths of the legislators...
...concerned about the need for the church to accept simplicity and apostolic poverty. Recently, New York's Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen suggested that laymen and parish priests should, like monks or nuns, take vows of poverty. And in a letter to his "brothers in the episcopate," Rio's Auxiliary Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara urged the fathers of the council to drop their titles of "excellency" and "eminence" and much of their ornate garb. Such ostentation, the archbishop warned, "separates us from the workers and the poor. Let us end once and for all the impression...
Only 22 hours after Paraná's Governor Ney Braga requested U.S. aid, three planeloads of food, medicine, tents, fire fighters, doctors and nurses landed in Parana. A U.S. Navy Task Force in Rio on maneuvers provided gauze, cotton and medication for fire victims. Top U.S. fire-control experts flew in immediately, including Merle Lowden, chief of the fire-control division of the U.S. Forest Service. Peace Corps doctors and nurses opened a 100-bed hospital in Tibagi, where U.S. officials began doling out supplies. Homeless and penniless the refugees may be, says a Brazilian in Tibagi, "but most...