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...rocket's four engines, the catastrophe marks Brazil's third failed attempt since 1997 to become the first Latin American nation to launch satellites into space. High Seas Chase THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Australian customs ship and a South African polar vessel were chasing a Uruguayan fishing boat late last week, aiming to board the trawler suspected of poaching prized Patagonian toothfish before it reached Uruguay. Uruguayan authorities ordered it to keep going, and dodging icebergs, the trawler sailed...
...DIED. JUAN SCHIAFFINO, 77, Uruguayan soccer legend who helped steer his country to a momentous 1950 World Cup final victory against favorites Brazil; in Montevideo. After his World Cup triumph, Schiaffino was poached by Italian club AC Milan for what was then a princely...
...music starts. He springs up like a grasshopper and dances over his songs' bold introductions. Each song, he explains, has been arranged with a unique instrumental prelude that highlights a particular global sound: an African clay flute scampers across one track, an accordion moans on another, a Uruguayan quijada (jawbone of a donkey) scratches on a third. "We're creating world music in a Long Island basement," he says with a laugh. The song speeds up and, wanting to show off some complicated turns, he asks to have this dance. He's clumsy but an emotional dancer. Then, without warning...
...show makes a strong case that some of them--including Brazil's Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) and Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Venezuela's Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-1994, a sculptor who worked under the name of Gego) and Carlos Cruz-Diez, 78, and of course that long-dead Uruguayan father figure of South American abstraction, Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949)--emphatically ought...
...reported on actress Pamela Anderson's harassment by "Hormonal Teenagers" at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este [PEOPLE, Feb. 8]. You blamed it on "randy Uruguayan boys." However, right now Punta del Este is practically taken over by vacationing Argentines. It seems all too likely that it was young men from Argentina who mobbed her. VERONICA PEINADO Montevideo...