Word: silveira
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...would be logical, in Kissinger's view, for Brazil to become the southern anchor of stability in the Western Hemisphere. In acknowledgment of this potentially key international role, Kissinger and Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira signed an agreement establishing twice-yearly talks on such matters as trade, technology exchange...
...Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro has already agreed in principle to such a meeting...
...dici's action lends credence to the growing collection of torture stories. "They connected the electric-shock machine and had fun with me," said Sister Maurina Borges da Silveira, mother superior of an orphanage in southern Brazil, who was later flown to Mexico City in exchange for a Japanese diplomat kidnaped in March. Arrested on the charge of giving refuge to subversives, she was stripped naked and thrown into a cell with a man. "I had to remain locked up with him all night, bothered by his advances," she said. Chael Charles Schreier, a former medical student, was seized...
...Brazil's Northeast were much alike. Author Amado, 52, is himself a nordestino, and here he again celebrates his brawling frontier city of Ilhéus and its quick-witted, hard-driving people. His big, lusty novel turns on the long land war between Colonel Horacio da Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump...
...election move by Silveira followed a busy meeting in which the group approved an Administration Board plan on make-up exams, passed a resolution on football allotments, and decided to write a letter to the Federal Communications Commission...