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Three times this year, the U.S. embassy in Rio protested open attacks against the U.S. by Brazilians in high office and anti-U.S., pro-Communist block prejudice in trade. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon brought to Washington what is described as a "devastating" report on Brazil's muddled affairs. At his press conference a fortnight ago, President Kennedy himself publicly cautioned Brazil about its political and economic instability. In sending Brother Bobby to Brazil, Kennedy made sure that the message would get through loud and clear...
...least some Brazilians thought it had. Hermano Alves, one of Rio's leading editorialists, recalled the stormy sessions in 1961 when President Kennedy's emissary, Adolf Berle. called on Janio Quadros to ask for cooperation on Cuba: "Mr. Berle went to see Janio Quadros and came out looking angry. Thus began Brazil's independent foreign policy. This week...
...Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable...
...small private plane collided with a two-engine Scandia transport flown by Brazil's Vasp Airlines in the crowded air corridor between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All 27 aboard both planes were killed, their bodies strewn along more than two miles of rugged mountain terrain. The smaller plane's pilot had strayed into a lane reserved for scheduled commercial airliners...
...terms as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico; of a heart attack; in Washington. Devoted to the task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...