Word: rios
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...realm of celebrity endorsements, the face is none too memorable, and the delivery falls decidedly shy of, say, Olivier for Polaroid. But the name of the new pitchster for Café de Rio is familiar. It has been since 1963, when Ronald Biggs, 53, and 14 others relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role...
...Cape Town, South Africa. From there, the small boats must follow a course that will take them over the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean and on to Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series...
...effort to contain the damage, Haig delivered a conciliatory response to Costa Méndez. He rejected Argentina's demand for application of the 1947 Treaty of Rio, which calls upon the U.S. and 20 other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory...
...over. Much will depend on the conflict's length and severity, as well as the degree of military aid the U.S. provides Britain. Diego Uribe Vargas, former Colombian Foreign Minister, echoes a common refrain when he observes that such institutions as the O.A.S. and the Treaty of Rio have not proved to be effective instruments in the current crisis. "They are like those medicines you keep in a bottle on a shelf for a long time," he says. "When you take them, you find out they're no good." On a collective level, Washington may find Latin Americans...
...Rio Gallegos I was put aboard a six-seat air force Turbo Commander bound for Comodoro Rivadavia. It was jammed with commuting army officers. There were no buenos dias, no smiles. Just two hours of their staring impassively at the American passenger. Their looks said they assumed I was there because I had done something wrong, something against them and their country...