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...hardly a dramatic ending to one of Latin America's most notorious terrorist careers. When Brazilian federal police descended last week on a modest apartment in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district, their quarry no doubt expected the visit: he had returned home the night before to find Brazilian reporters squatting on his doorstep, clamoring for interviews. After the authorities finally arrived, Mário Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle...
Locked away in downtown Rio's Praça Mauá jail, Firmenich now awaits formal extradition proceedings that would return him to the country where, during the 1970s, his crimes helped to create a decade of bloody turmoil and an eventual military dictatorship...
BLAME IT ON RIO...
...Donen. The good one has for 35 years directed elegant entertainments like Singin' in the Rain, Charade, Two for the Road and Movie Movie. Every once in a while, though, his dark double appears and turns out something like Staircase or Lucky Lady and, now, Blame It on Rio. Inelegant is too mild a word for it; even distasteful doesn't quite cover it. Shall we say disgusting...
Back in Washington, Kissinger called the accusation "a lie." Shultz then flew on to Brazil, landing without fanfare in Rio de Janeiro. At week's end, he was enjoying a tropical round of golf with an aide at the lush Gávea Golf Club prior to a scheduled hourlong meeting on Monday in Brasilia with the country's military President, João Baptista Figueiredo. Once again, progress toward full democracy was liable to be discussed: Figueiredo will step down from the country's most important remaining nonelective political office in March 1985, probably in favor...