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...enterprising Rio broadcaster has signed up Ronald Biggs to dispense travel and safety advice to the thousands of delegates attending the Earth Summit next month. An alumnus of the legendary gang that heisted $7.3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train in 1963, Biggs has been a fugitive in Brazil for more than 20 years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it is in bad taste...
...opening paragraphs set the tone of the article: "Peru? Where the hell is Peru? Well, it was first found by Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swinerherd. It's west of Brazil and north of Chile. First faltering democracy on your right. You can't miss it...It's a messy society...and the economy is a basket case..." The naive geographical description fails to do justice to the fourth largest Latin American nation, homeland of the Inca Empire, the most advanced civilization in pre-Hispanic America. In fact, most of the population takes its roots from the Incas, not the Spaniards...
...Brazil, dozens of activists, including rural labor leaders, native Indians and priests, have been beaten and shot, allegedly by the hirelings of ranchers, logging companies, gold miners and other interests. On top of all this, activists contend, the justice system serves only the interests of the rich and powerful. In February a state appeals court in Acre overturned -- on grounds of insufficient evidence -- the conviction of rancher Darly Alves da Silva for his participation in the Chico Mendes murder and ordered a retrial. "The conviction was the first time an executor of a crime against an activist was brought...
...CORONERS IN BRAZIL WHO EXAMINED THE EXhumed body of a drowning victim in 1985 were almost certain that they were looking at Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who is said to have whistled opera while selecting which Jews would perish in the gas chambers of Auschwitz--and who performed horrifying medical experiments on many of the concentration camp's inmates. But almost was not good enough for the Israeli government, or for survivors of the camps who were still haunted by the man who escaped Allied custody and fled to South America...
Othello should be just the beginning of a true restoration. Welles made only 18 films, and at least five might-be masterpieces remain to be seen. It's All True, a three-part Technicolor film Welles shot in Brazil in 1942, ran afoul of censors and studio executives, and the film was aborted. In the late '60s Welles shot part of The Deep (Dead Calm), with Laurence Harvey and Jeanne Moreau. Around the same time he completed a 40-min., stripped-down (no Portia) version of The Merchant of Venice, but somebody stole the sound track. The Other Side...