Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slums of Rio de Janeiro. John Paul saw squalor. He climbed up a dirt road past the wooden shacks where 20,000 squatters exist under constant threat of eviction, toward a tiny parish church that serves the favela of Vidigal. On the way, he suddenly turned aside into a three-room hovel, where Elvira Almeida Lima, caught by surprise, had yet to make her bed or clear the breakfast dishes. The Pope gently kissed the old woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John...
Bells pealed all across the congested city of Rio as John Paul's "Popemobile" arrived. At a jammed open-air Mass in sight of Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Pope made his way to the altar, hugging and kissing babies. Two days later, in São Paulo, the fervor of an open-air throng of 1.5 million brought tears to John Paul's eyes...
...world is driving a frantic effort to enlist other countries in this region to that goal," says Bykov. "What is so often forgotten in the U.S. is that for us, that area is on our doorstep. The situation is similar to what might arise south of the Rio Grande; America would certainly be sensitive to instability on its borders...
...Lido in Paris? A cabaret on Tokyo's Ginza? Rio's Copacabana? Hardly. The revue, well named Kicks, is packing New Yorkers and visitors into the Rainbow Grill, which in the past has been celebrated more for its 65th-floor view of New York City than for closeups of prancing showgirls. The revue is risque, sassy, elegantly mounted, and amusing, and its success may say something about the city's mood in troubled times...
...Rio, the vigilantes usually identify themselves as the Mão Branco, the White Hand, and their counterparts in São Paulo go by the name the Black Hand. Typically, a gang member will telephone local police and newspapers, announcing in mocking terms where the latest "meat" will be dropped; almost invariably, a corpse is found there...