Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy was damn smart. Most American leaders aren't. When he came to South America he knew what was going on. Hell, he knew more about student problems than some of the students did. --a Brazilian student at Harvard outside Lowell House this week...
...Janitor Luis Ferreira de Barros, 41, arrived at the hospital. When she found out what had happened, she threatened to sue the doctors for removing the heart without permission. She may yet have her day in court. Presently, a bill to legalize such quick transplants is stalled in the Brazilian legislature. Cause for the delay: a proposed provision for assigning mistresses priority over parents, brothers and sisters in granting permission for heart removals. ∙∙∙ The day before the Sao Paulo transplant, Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Edson Teixeira implanted a pancreas in diabetic, ex-soccer-star -turned...
...named Joaquim Alves de Costa supposedly found the inscription on a broken stone tablet on his sprawling estate in the tropical rain forests of Brazil's Paraíba state. Costa's son, a draftsman, made a copy of the baffling markings and sent it to the Brazilian...
Adequate security guarantees is by far the biggest issue. The United States and the Soviet Union have pledged to "act immediately through the Security Council to take necessary measures to counter aggression." This is a very vague and unimpressive guarantee at best. Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose de Magalahes Pinto claims that non-nuclear states who renounce the possession of nuclear weapons are at least entitled to "a formal obligation on the part of nuclear weapons states not to employ their nuclear weapons against the signatories...
Murder & Loan Sharking. Behind the sudden concern was a 20-volume Brazilian government report that revealed the scope of the carnage, and even implicated Indian Service officials themselves. Working on their own or with local land speculators, officials were accused of systematically murdering or terrorizing Indians in order to force them off their land. Once a tribe vacated land, the property reverted to the government and could then be picked up cheaply. In only two years of service, the government claimed, former I.P.S. Director Luis Vinhas Neves (1964-66) committed 42 separate crimes against the Indians-including collusion in several...