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...Havana for use by refugees. Among the first U.S. newsmen to visit was TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. The port's main feature is a fenced-off compound sprawling across some four acres along the narrow Camarioca River. At the dock, an "immigration official" introduced himself ("just call me Roberto") and motioned toward 300 Cubans milling around across the river. "When a boat arrives for them," he said, "we will notify them and admit them here for processing." The people waited late into the night, visible only by the glow of their cigarettes...
...nearly solved all its economic problems, but so many of them have been brought under control-inflation, an antiquated capital market, wide currency fluctuations-that money frightened off a few years back is once more flowing into the country. The flow is being hastened by Planning Minister Roberto Campos, the main architect of Brazil's economic resurgence, who likes to take potential investors out on a yacht in Rio de Janeiro Bay, when sun and sea have weakened their resistance, press upon them the advantages of investing in Brazil. It seems to work...
Lacerda and Pinta staked their political reputations on candidates running to succeed them. The candidates both men were backing lost. Negrao de Lima beat Lacerda's candidate Flexa Ribeiro in Guanabara. Israel Pinheiro crushed Magalhaes' gubernatorial candidate, Roberto Resende in Minas Gerais...
This week Fowler is to meet French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing for talks in Giscard's palatial office in the Louvre Palace, fly on to Rome to meet Italian Finance Minister Roberto Tremelloni, then on to Bonn to talk with West Germany's Finance Minister Rolf Dahlgrün. Before the trip is over, he will also meet the top financial men of Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden. After this month's session of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, at which Fowler wants a preparatory commission...
...murder. Elwin told the Coast Guardsmen that the Seven Seas was a banana trader on her way from Miami to Tampa. Shortly after 10 o'clock the night before, he left the hot crew quarters aft to get some air. As he was leaving, he passed Cuban Crewman Roberto Ramírez, 35, who seemed in a big hurry. "I heard a shot and turned around. Roberto was shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours...