Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Photographer David Burnett has especially vivid memories of the Easter offensive of 1972. "Most unnerving," he recalls, "was the sight, through the borrowed binoculars of an American adviser, of a wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet...
...20th Century- Fox --is in trouble. The 300-lb., bear-hugging Denver oilman who bought it in 1981--Marvin Davis might be a good name for him--has presided over a festival of flops with titles like Rhinestone, The Buddy System, A Night in Heaven, Blame It on Rio and Turk 182! Last September he brought in the super-star mogul of Paramount Pictures--let's give him the name Barry Diller--to turn things around. But meanwhile the losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last fiscal year, $12.4 million in the last quarter for which there...
...shifting its resources to protect its profitable overseas routes and using management employees to do the jobs of striking workers, Pan Am has been able to keep 137 of its 390 daily scheduled flights in operation. Thousands of passengers have been stranded from Istanbul to Rio, however, and others have endured service turbulence as supervisors performed such unfamiliar tasks as sorting baggage and serving meals. When a Manhattan traveler whose flight had been canceled demanded to see the management, his ticket agent growled, "I am the management...
...elitist bureaucrat, Jimmy embarks on a one-man campaign to discredit Tyler and his administration. Trouble from Jim is the last thing that the Mayor and his tuxedo clad cronies need, already troubled by the departure of a top mayorial aide, accompanied by the city's bank accounts, for Rio...
...caught, can be expelled rather than imprisoned. That, says Tavares, is "an open signal that the narcos have nothing to fear in Brazil." Dealers who wind up behind bars, moreover, manage to get free relatively easily. Last year, a Colombian who had set up a refinery just outside Rio simply walked out of a federal maximum-security prison and away from a 27-year sentence. Not long thereafter, a prison guard who claimed that the fugitive had taken his gun was temporarily dismissed...