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— L- - ----t — Magic realism has always found in Brazil a fertile soil for Literature, Furthermore life on the absurd lane has been an integral part of living on these shores. In such a chronic state of life imitating the weirdest art, however, these seem to be the best times for reality to put fiction to shame.

Time has shown that president Fernando Collor's impeachment in 1992 wasn't the end of a process of

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purgation and cleansing but just the beginning of the Via Dolorosa of our national Passion, The last scandal, arisen in Rio, uncovered what everybody knew: that the jogo do bicho (number's game) was a thriving respectable underworld power paying its way in kickbacks, intimidation and some token social gifts to some of the poorest.

What wasn't that obvious was the fact that they maintained on their payroll the highest authorities of the state, those whose job was to protect the population from these crooks. Rio state's governor, Rio city's mayor, the Security secretary, all were getting checks from that Mafia and were

having their hands greased to look the other way, together with judges, sheriffs, journalists and a whole police battalion.

Apparently in Brazil every time the doctors eradicate some cancerous tissue, they find that the disease has taken root a little deeper and the scalpels have to go back to work.

Luckily the patient continues to show an unmatchable ability to heal itself and therefore the prognostic is still hopeful. But it's hard to keep faith in the system when time after time Brazilians learn that they cannot trust those in charge.

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The space is ours

Do-it-yourself visa lottery kit

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Presidential hopeful opens his heart

Rio in San Francisco

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The jogo do bicho worst bet ever

Origenes Lessa short story

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Varig's free fall

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17 This weapon changed Mexico's history

19 Drought: does it have a cure?

21 The selecao has been picked

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Pedro Febo (Ugly Pedro) and Cido Doido (Crazy Cido) are two of 40 names included in a blacklist which forbids them to buy alcoholic beverages in Guaracai, a little town in the interior of Sao Paulo. The measure was taken by Josival Amaro, the city's sheriff. The local Bar Association (the lawyer's one) has protested, but the town's population is ready to go to the streets to defend Amaro.

For the first time in Brazil a judge allowed a man to adopt the last name of his wife. Army sergeant Antonio Vieira da Silva took bank cashier Maria Hadano's name as his. Since Hadano has no brothers, she convinced the husband that this Japanese custom was the only way for her to perpetuate the name of her family..

TheRussians are learning economics from Brazil, • a country in which inflation runs 40% a month. Yegor Gaidar, former advisor to President Boris Yelzin, declared to /stoE, •"Our economists are in Brazil to learn how to make a profit with a rising inflation. Brazilian experts are teaching us if not to defeat inflation, at least to live with it."

Tromhadinha (little crash) is the name given in Brazil to a youngster, who generally in little bands, crashes into an adult taking his or her possessions. The trombadinha look is now in.

Middle-class teens in Sao Paulo have been cutting their hair very short (the style is called Febem, the Juvenile Institution in charge of these children) and wearing worn jeans, shabby white T-shirts and torn down sneakers.

An evergreen shrub from Brazil called boldo (Vemonia condensata is the scientific name) could someday displace aspirin as the drug of choice as a painkiller. Scientists from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio concluded that the common boldo is more powerful than aspirin, with advantages. It protects the stomach instead of upsetting it, can prevent ulcers and even has anti-inflammatory properties.

•The Voice of America has been heard in Brazil through short-wave radio since 1961. Since April, however, this service doesn't exist anymore.

"We're entering the 21st Century," said a V.of A. representative in Washington, explaining 'why the program from now on will only be transmitted via satellite. Initially, 21 Brazilian radio stations are going to pick up the signal. .R1 Soares, the smart Brazilian humorist whose TV program of interviews in Brazil is considered by some critics as the most intelligent and interesting show the little tube has to offer, is changing its base to the United States. Starting in May and continuing during the World Cup, the presenter of Jo no Copa will be interviewing from San Francisco Americans interested in Brazil; and Brazilians living here.

Dona Flor e Seas Dois Maridos' (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) director, Bruno Barreto, has already finalized a $20-million contract with Steven Spielberg - former husband of Amy Irving, who is now Barreto's wife - for the filming of The Last Days of Don Juan. The film to be shot in Seville, Spain, will star super-hot Spaniard Antonio Banderas.

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Brief statement Panties might have their days numbered in Brazil, at least until the fashion changes. In Rio and So Paulo, women have been raiding their lovers' and husbands' drawers in search of their underwear. Most of these thieves are in their 20s.

Many of them, to avoid domestic disputes, are starting to buy men's briefs for themselves. can't stand my tight panties," justifies a fan of the new fashion. As a loud statement some women are pulling the briefs at the waist so they can bee seen by all.

Presidency

Easy choice?

Since So Paulo's mayor Paulo Malta gave up his ambition as candidate to the presidency, two names have reaped great benefit in the polls.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaincreased his lead, jumping from 30% of probable voters to 37%. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who confirmed his candidacy only at the very end Of March. would get the votes of 21% of the population. The numbers are New wardrobe the result of a DataFolha survey Rio's Casa da Moeda, the institution responsible for the design done in the first week of April. If and printing of Brazilian cur- this polarization keeps growing until October 3, when the elections rency, has been working 24 hours have its first round, a second turn a day in three shifts. Its mission is might be unnecessary. Lula or to produce before the end of this Cardoso might win right there the month 1.375 billion Brazilian greenbacks, known as Real. The.: minimum 50% + 1 votes necessary new 1, 5, 10, 50. 100 bills dcgi. to occupy the Alvorada Palace. without the traditional personalities and have an effigy of the7,, Republic on its front. The difference is on the verse where Tropical animal species such as the spotted-jaguar and the red-maca N' are displayed. Gone from the new money is the phrase "Deus seja lotivado".("Praise the Lord").

Is it a reflp00 of',.:'„gk,for a currency that's going to -Start its life losing 2% of its value every.,',i; passing da)`?

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Brazil has been romancing space even before the world learned the Russian word Sputnik. Lack of money, departure of talent, and a boycott from the United States have all contributed to delay a program that should be in full swing right now, with several Brazilian-built satellites orbiting the earth, taken into space by Brazilian-made rockets. Times seem to be changing. Now a Brazilian space program has become much more than wishful thinking.

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Not everybody is convinced of -NR} Brazil's sincerity about its newfound peaceful intentions; but since Brazil created its local NASA, the Agencia Espacial Brasileira (AEB) last February, the chances of the country seriously joining, and in a very short time, the very excluNEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

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sive space club has increased considerably. Brazil has been sending rockets into the space since 1965, but they have been only small boosters for launching meteorological probes at low altitude.

When Brazil showed interest in expanding its scope with the placement of satellites in space, the United States voiced its concerns and put a firm foot against the door of technology transfer, alleging that the same technology might be used to shower enemies with missiles. A Yankee diplomat even confided that he had been forbidden by his government from giving some technology books as gifts to Brazilians. Until the creation of AEB, the whole space program in Brazil was in the hands of the military.

In a 1993 study ordered by the White House, the Rand Corporation, a California-based think tank, concluded that the Brazilian space program would not be "economically viable" unless its real objective were the production of missiles.

Tired of being snubbed by Washington, Brasilia was already looking somewhere else to find the components it needed. Right now, Brazil and China are in a joint venture to produce a communications satellite; and Germany, which has sold its atomic technology to Brazilian nuclear plants, has been approached to help develop a better stabilizing system for satellites.

Before February, COBAE (Brazilian Committee on Spatial Activities), a branch of the Armed Forces, was in charge of all Brazilian space ventures. COBAE was created in the early seventies, under the military umbrella, to supervise all space research in the country and hasn't disappeared with the advent of the new 8

Space Agency. The committee is still responsible for the signing of international treaties. It has recently reached an agreement with NASA to launch a series of research rockets from Brazilian territory.

The creation of AEB came with promises that the country was ready to accept the conditions of the MCTR, an international treaty that limits the production of missiles. When American Vice-President Al Gore went to Brasilia in February, he heard again about how peaceful the plans for the Brazilian space program are.

Speaking to weekly magazine IstoE, Major Brigadier Ajax Barros de Melo, 59, general director of AEB, talked about the American fears: "We want to make it clear that in reality we've never had. military objectives. But we are not going to be formally signing any document. We are adults and we will do the same as Russia and China, which simply declared that they were adhering to the terms of the agreement."

He added, however: "Whoever makes and places a rocket in orbit can point it in any direction. We have this capacity and the Americans know that. That's sovereignty."

Brazil's proclamations of good intentions seem to be enough to mollify the U.S., which has already declared that "the creation of the civilian agency has placed the relations between the two countries on track again." Brazil now can even develop weapons as long as it honors its commitment to keep this technology, at home and not to pass it along to other nations.

The Brazilian space program is still very modest. All the country wishes to do in the near future is to launch fewer than a dozen nationally built satellites, one of which is already in the skies. The first of them was launched in 1993 by an American rocket. Initial plans, started in 1980, had called for a VLS (Satellite Launching Vehicle, now being developed by Brazil) to launch the Brazilian orbiter in 1986. Later, the date was revised to '89, but once again the deadline came and went and the rocket still hadn't left its planning stage. Lack of resources and American restrictions have contributed to all these delays.

The Unites States has prevented Brazil from getting parts for the so-called inertial platform, components that serve to show when the rocket is getting off course. The U.S. has also prevented Brazilians from getting a system to stabilize their satellites when in orbit. That's why the SCD1, the only satellite made in Brazil that's orbiting the earth. has been gyrating like a crazy lambada dancer in space.

It's ironic that the INPE has been testing an Argentinean satellite that has the system Brazilian satellites lack. Argentina has been favored by the U.S. in this field and was able to get its hands on the SAC-B system which allows satellites to maneuver in space. In the satellite being developed with China, that country is responsible for the guidance system, but once again there is no explicit transfer of technology being made between the two countries.

Brazilian scientists believe, however, that all such contacts will eventually make the country an insider on these technological matters. "If you place the appropriate people in a cooperative project, this transfer of technology will inevitably happen," says Carlos Santana, the manager for the Chinese-Brazilian venture.

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$40-million project, will be ready for space by December 1995, but not soon enough to place in orbit the next Brazilian satellite, the SCD-2. Once again, Brazil will have to hire another country to do the job.

If the satellite launcher is still on the ground, however, it is not for lack of talented heads. Jayme Boscov, 61, the father of the VLS, is a Brazilian who for nine years worked in France, helping with the development of the supersonic Concorde and strategic missiles. After having pursued with personal resources his advancement in France, Boscov went back to CTA (Aerospatial Technical Center), the same place where he had concluded his studies in 1959.

Still there isn't a schedule to coordinate the rockets' program. AEB was created to try to accomplish this objective as well as to integrate the military and civilian sides of the program. While the CTA is linked to the Aeronautic Ministry, the INPE (National Institute of Space Researches), which is in charge of the satellites, is part of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

With more than 1300 workers, the INPE, in cooperation with NASA, has been involved in space, astronomy and meteorology research since its creation in 1971. But Brazil's interest in space started at least 10 years before that. CNAE (National Committee on Space Activities) was created in 1961, only four years after the Russians launched its pioneer Sputnik.

In 1964, the Aeronautic Ministry opened the Barreira do Inferno Launching Center close to Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte. At the beginning of the sixties, in a diversified effort (the same error made by the Americans when their space program started), the Navy was developing the Somma (Meteorological Probes for the Navy) project while the Air Force was using the so-called Somfa (Air Force Meteorological Probing) rockets.

They would in time give birth to the Sonda dynasty (from Ito 4), and to the VLS itself. While the Sonda I was 3 meters (9.8 feet) long and weighed 54 kilos (119 lb.), the first VLS will be 19 meters (62.4 feet) and will weigh 50 tons. The little Sonda 1 was launched in space more than 200 times during a period of 12 years. The VLS is capable of putting a cargo of 115 kilos (253 lb.)in an orbit of 750 kilometers (465 miles) of altitude.

More recently the Alcantara Base, a launching center. was opened in the state of Marankio, very close to the Equator and not far from French Guyana Kourou Base from which some two dozen Ariane rockets have been launched.

The first Brazilian satellite has been in orbit since.

February 1993. It is the SCD-1, the Satellite for Collection of Data. By the end of the year, the SCD-2 should be ready to go to space, where it will take the place of its older brother, whose life expectancy is just a little more than two years. The function of the SCD family of satellites is to receive meteorological data from 25 stations spread all over the country and to transmit these data instantaneously to the control centers maintained by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE).

The SCD-3, already approved by the government, will be the first national satellite to test telecommunication equipment in low altitude. The plan is to have eight Brazilian satellites in space making possible a network of mobile phones throughout the whole country. Embratel NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

(Brazilian Enterprise of Communications) is part of the world communications network through the Intelsat and Inmarsat systems. The satellites being operated now by Brazil for its domestic communication are all foreign built.

Two of the satellites being built are a joint-venture with the Chinese. They are known as CBERS-I and CBERS-2 (Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellite) and should be able to take pictures in order to spot and prevent illegal fires in the Amazon, amont other tasks. However, the first CBERS won't be launched until October 1996, to be followed in 1998 by its younger sibling.

At the same time, Brazil will be . trying to develop on its own similar satellites.

These will be part of the SSR family, which should start going into space also in 1996. According to initial plans, the SSR-1 should have been in orbit in 1994.

Space humor - Brazilians themselves have never taken their space program very seriously. Echoes of this spirit can be found in literature, music and film.

What is considered by some as the first Brazilian science-fiction romance, Albino Jose Ferreira Continho's A Liga dos Planetas (The Planets'League),written in 1921, has as its hero a Carioca (native of Rio) drafted by President Epitacio Pessoa to contact extraterrestrials to create an interplanetary organization.

The government built him an airplane and he went to the Moon. Venus and Mars, having even to face a war.

The unsettling revelation at the end, however, was that our hero never left Brazil, not even his boarding-house in downtown Rio where he dreamed all these adventures.

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In a similar way, Violeta Ferraz, in the 1954 chanchada (B-movie) Carnaval em Marte was hit on the head by a vase and dreamed that she was the Queen of Carnaval in Mars. When, in 1959, the Sputnik fell into comedian Oscarito's backyard, in 0 Homem do Sputnik (The Man of the Sputnik), there was again the upsetting news at the end when it was discovered that the assumed satellite was nothing more than a metal ball fallen from the neighbor's roof.

It's also true that Golias and Grande Otelo, two comic geniuses, went into orbit in Os Cosmonautas in the early sixties. But there was no doubt about the message of the slapstick.

Golias was called Gagarino, a play on the name of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who, in 1961, aboard the Vostok, became the first man to orbit the earth.

To understand a little how hard has been life for the Brazilian space community, it's enough to say that since 1979, the MECB (Complete Brazilian Space Mission) has received only $150 million for its projects.

This is the amount a Third World country like India spends every year in its own space program.

Another illustration can be given through the ever present play of image and reality. Impeached ex-president Fernando Collor de Mello had assumed power by promising to find a place for Brazil in the first world.

On his desk he kept a picture of a VLS rocket and used to say he was entirely in favor of the program.

When Collor had a chance to help the program, however, he cut a budget that was already critically low.

The skies seem to be getting brighter for the Brazilian space program, however. The VLS will be receiving $40 million from the 10

government by 1995. The INPE budget for 1993 is almost $70 million, and there is a new sense of pride and self-assurance among the participants in the program. "Our space mission," says Maxi° Barbosa, the INPE director, "has created about 5,000 highly specialized jobs, besides allowing the transfer of First World technology to several sectors of the civilian industry."

On the other hand there are no false hopes that from now on the doors of high tech will be open to the Brazilian efforts. AEB director Ajax de Melo has no illusions: "I don't believe our potential partners will help us build the VLS. We will have to do it by ourselves."

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NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

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ore than ever, presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso is now orchestrating his economic plan and the alliances for his candidacy from his senate seat, to which he has returned after passing the Ministry of Finance to a man in tune with his thoughts, former Brazilian ambassador to Washington, Rubens Ricupero.

Few people doubt now that Cardoso abandoned a comfortable position as Foreign Minister to assume a risky job as Finance Minister in May, 1993 with an eye on the Alvorada Palace, the executive mansion in Brasilia. His candidacy is the worst news Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the favorite of all polls for the presidency up to now, could have received. Worried about the leftist leanings of former union leader Lula, businessmen were looking for an anti-Lula.

FHC, as Cardoso is frequently called in the press, couldn't be a more Perfect antidote to Lulism, in a homeopathic way.

He is no right-extremist or even a moderate from the right as Lula and his PT (Worker Party) would like to have as foe.

Au contraire, the senator for PSDB (Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy) has his own left-leaning positions himseli'and' ., is in a party considered center left.

Besides, Cardoso, an intellectual, fled Brazil, persecuted by the military regime, and took refuge at the Sorbonne University. Moreover some of his disciples went on to create the PT. To all of this, FHC adds the charm of being appealing to FIESP (Silo Paulo State Federation of Industry), and the International Monetary Fund.

Fernando Henrique likes to cite French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to explain how he makes his political analyses: "L'enfer sont les autres." ("Hell are the other people."). It will be a challenge for Cardoso, the candidate, to arrange a winning coalition of friendly and unfriendly parties all interested in at least a piece of the presidency, be it a vice-presidency or „ an important ministry.

But in the end the new Fernando (impeached Collor de Mello was also a Fernando) will be inducted into the Palacio da Alvorada based on a plan he put into action months ago, the URV (Unit of Real Value) proposal. If it is working in October and November when the first and the second rounds of the election respectively occur, he will be new Brazilian President.

If not, it will be: `Bye-bye, Fernando, nice try.'

Have the people understood your economic plan?

We live in a society where everything is instantaneous. Brazil has huge pockets of backwardness but it also has a Very fast rhythm. For a long time, I have though that politics is the thing that's backward.

In an economic plan like this everything happens fast and in two days people already know everything.

And did the politicians understand?

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tsmuweca PS whatare ti Are you goingtolose the victcry has alhs dun these1014t. razthen pohtioa But those . figh build victoy can be ei:,..u4itettoll t.1 1 4# ger of your hand When somebody

a do so the Minister Fernan Henrique Cardo' gave this interview to Correio Braziliense. In

, cr en c 0,),4Thea egwated mt.erlocutors rep.msettatives they ls''c'ds.n.t.t. was itvheedna rlai tha.t.. chose,,,t1..i...e,.ma. .rb,tit&r. itril lecoidl MOdent soeielY.....0, 4iftere?Il. It inverts the foots 'the media .,„, 0Ii1S te stio‘k-siiiin '1i0 w to talk.

Whogare they goingt.4o-Inyen - next' 11e Maybe the counter-interlocutor So1 But who \A ill make the counterpoint this is not a random invention It exists society. because there is a counterpoint in societi This is not malevolent perversity of /ter. will be the counter-intertar?

This is a political question liiit there always a tendency to link the economic o(ess4ogether with the electoral piocess, Let's wart and see 110s the partistia question gets resolved. They ate inventallituice between. the PPP iTarty 01 he Liberal Front) and the P1 >13 w Inch is making the P,S1)13 very, N., CI) hervotts.

They are finding out that it will be itecessar to have strong support from a variety of sources in order to do any thing in Brazil.

Have you become the new Tancredo?

(Tancredo Neves, a gilled politician, was chosen by Congress to be the first llraiittart President atter 21 years,. pl. int tar dictat<>1-ship but he:i iiugurtited,)

...erit7horroi union. , Do you think the press izing this hope?

1 think so.

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The press has other antennae that don't pass through the representative system. The system runs 'after the press.

How do you see yourself in this role?

I'm not sure I'm going to get this role. I am very

cautious. This comes and goes. I am not sure this movement will have a wider following. I haven't advanced even a step in this direction. Neither have the parties.

There is a big need among certain sectors to create an anti-Lula candidate, isn't there?

That's true. They are trying to give birth to an antiLula candidate. But the PSDB is not anti-Lula. Neither am I. Now, society is trying to create somebody who will be able to defeat Lula. Is this achievable? This is not a question of wanting or not. It is something deeper. It will depend on thousands of factors. This need challenge Lula exists. But it is not clear who is going to perform this role.

I have my doubts about my candidacy. It is not an easy position to be a challenger. It's something vexing.

Besides, my allies will not be chosen by me. All of this provokes interior, psychological and emotional disturbances. On the other hand, it has its positive aspect. I know that I can be a candidate. The party wants it, there are other forces that want it, and I have some chance of winning.

But I also can decisively contribute to putting the country back on its feet, doing what I am doing. Wouldn't this be more useful and even better politically? I am 62.

In four years I will be 66. This is not an elementary calculation to be made. On what does it depend? On having somebody as candidate for those forces.

Don't you feel it is complicated to try to stabilize the economy in a climate of political instability?

Au contraire. This attempt at stabilization is only possible due to the political fluctuations we are presently experiencing. By the way, I have a heterodox thesis about this. If the political situation were stable, we wouldn't be able to end inflation because inflation has its beneficiaries. If the government is organized, it doesn't allow us to destroy inflation because to end inflation it's necessary to restrain the government. I've done this.

How? People say, "Fernando Henrique is a suave creature, he never says no." But I have restrained all the governors.

We've created a very stringent rule to control the state banks. The first collateral security I offered was to (Bahia governor) Antonio Carlos (Magalhaes) and the second to (Rio governor Leonel) Brizola. Why? Because they had their finances in order.

Then you profited from the crisis?

Do you think a strong government would allow you. to do this? Do you think the ministers would allow that?

When (President) Itamar dismissed all his ministers, and it wasn't something that I suggested, I said, "Great".

Because there was always talk among ministers that we could not do this, we could not do that.

"There is no government," some people have said. If there were, we wouldn't have done what we have done.

(Finance Minister) Cavallo was only able to do what he has done in Argentina for the same reason. There the government was ending. The main concern of the economic team was with the political instability. And I told them, "If there were no crisis in the Budget Committee, do you think they would let us do with the Budget what we have done? Never." This is something you cannot forecast. These are things that happen, they are accidents, they are moments of luck.

Are you becoming mystical?

No. But you have to be able to detect the circumstances and make them work for you. This is politics. It's not an objective analysis. For example: how many times did Serra say that all that was done was impossible 14

because analytically it was really impossible? Many were saying, "Ah, Congress will never release funds without political connections in an election year. It will never happen." â&#x20AC;˘ But until now the President hasn't participated in the plan..i This is for another reason. He is afraid they will ask him a question and that he might answer in a manner Contrary to the plan's structure. I don't have the slightest

complaint against Itamar. On the contrary, he didn't obstruct the plan in any way, and in his own way he gave it prestige and force. And the fact that the Congress committed so many blunders gave us a certain space to act.

How is the private financial life of the Minister who created the sixth Brazilian currency in the last 10 years?

I have no financial lift. I don't use money, credit cards or checks. I spend almost nothing.

How is this magic possible?

No magic.

You have no expenses at home?

Yes, but my daughter manages them.

I don't like money physically. When I have some expense, it's my daughter Luciana who pays for it.

Don't you go shopping like everybody else?

This is very rare, only when I'm on a

trip, and only when something is on sale.

This suit that I'm wearing,, for example, was bought for $140 in the United States.

I only use my credit card when I'm there, because that's when I can use the money I receive as royalties for the books I have written. I've never used my credit card in Brazil. My relationship with money is very strange.

Why? It always has been. Many say that I am stingy. I am very frugal. I to these things that old people do, like turning off the lights. Look, I live very modestly.

How about these modern toys that everybody has, such as super sound systems, CD players?

All I have is a portable stereo given to me by Tasso (Jereissati, president of the PSDB).

Why do you behave like that with money? Is this an intellectual thing?

It is. I've never cared about material objects, I never had time for that, I don't get attached to them. Even with respect to books. I have to leave Brazil in a rush in 1964 and I was never able to get back my books. Another example: I don't write on a desk, but on a common table. And by hand. I only use a computer as a typewriter. Computers are crazy. You spend too much time just discussing the technology. Why DOS, why Word this or that? I think it is a waste of time in my case, but

everybody at home uses the computer in a full fledged way, using all the programs.

I also use it, but in a limited way.

Electronic notebook, do you have one?

They are trying to give birth to an anti-Lula candidate.

But the PSDB is not antiLula. Neither am I. No. That's because my assistants do it all for me.

But my schedule is here in my head. And sometimes I fight with them because they mix up the schedules.

You are not the modern candidate we imagined. But these things make life much easier.

This is not my style. I have no time to play with equipment. For a long time my days have been full of things to do.

Do you take vitamins?

No, because my stomach is very sensitive. I only do one thing: I sleep well, for six hours. I recuperate with sleep and I also eat a lot. What I miss a lot is the sun.

"There is no government," some people have said. If there were, we wouldn't have done what we have done.

(Finance Minister) Cavallo was only able to do what he has done in Argentina for the same reason.

NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

MAFIA

Never ending mud As Italy, Brazil seems to be engaged in cleaning up its act and trying to give itself a fresh start.

It seems at times, however, that the more Brazilians clean the dirtier things get.

As in this case of a busted Carioca Al Capone.

RODOLFO ESPINOZA

Today's Brazil reminds us of the Bible story in which Abraham intercedes before God for Sodom. Will You not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?," he asks. Abraham pesters the Creator, lowering again and again the number of possible non corrupt in the city until he gets a divine pledge: -1 will not destroy it for the sake of 10." We all know the fate of Sodom.

Brazilians have been rocked from scandal to scandal leaving sometimes the impression that the country will not be able to find the minimum amount of righteous people who will save it from imploding. President Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached after it was found that he was the leader of a Mafia of corruption and kickbacks inside the Federal Government. Soon after, an inquiry found more than a dozen congressmen guilty of stuffing their pockets while presumably tending to the federal budget. In between, ministers, judges, politicians from all levels, and businessmen have been found red-handed replenishing their bank accounts with illicit money.

However, in the latest scandal, the dismantling ofjogo do bicho (numbers' game with animals) in Rio, the list of names receiving gratuities from the mentors of the game contained that of Herbert de Souza Betinho, a man considered a mother Theresa with pants by: the vast majority of Brazilians. Betinho, after declaring that he had committed a political but not an ethical sin, has already been forgiven,

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even by those who don't like his style. After all, he was able to prove,0 through a deposit slip from Citicorpâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Citibank of New York, that the, $40,000 he received was used to fund.

ABIA, the anti-AIDS organization that he presides.

The March 30 busting of Castor de Andrade's banca, in the neighborhood of 13angu, Rio de Janeiro, by, general-prosecutor Antonio Carlos Biscaia, brought the Justice the riches of 200 account books and 167 computer diskettes.

This should be enough to allow authorities to give a deadly blow to jogo do bicho in the country. After all Castor was the godfather of a huge network of traffic of influence, weapons and drugs that controlled organized crime in five states.

The findings revealed that big names have been profiting from the ' illegal activities of bicho 's Mafia.

Among them, former president Collor de Mello, Rio governor Nibo Batista, .â&#x20AC;&#x17E; Sao Paulo mayor Paulo Maluf, Rio: mayor Cesar Maia, seven entrepreneurs, three judges, 12 congressmen and seven assemblymen, 25 police commissioners and 100 Military Po-", lice officers. After some doubts right, after the seizure of the implicating, records, the Police believes now that the information contained in the loot ; is authentic.

Some of the involved, as mayor Maluf, denied vehemently having received any money from the zoo-lottery. But others seem not to feel any anguish for having received these contributions. Former congressman and singer Agnaldo Tim6teo, for example, confirmed that he accepted more than $7,000 in 1990 and added: "I've received and I'm not denying , it. Castor is my white father (Tim6teo-1 is black) and he has always helped. me."

One of the most intriguing names in the list, as having received 58,000,?,, is that of Nibo Batista. He has just assumed the government of Rio but before that he was Rio's Justice Secretary, the man in charge of punishing the bicheiros. It has been explained that 40,000 of this went to Betinho's cause. But what happened to the difference?

Castor himself has disappeared.

He is cited as having said, right after his bunker was busted, "What kind of 16

Police is this. Couldn't they tell at least tell me what was coming?"

The phrase can be apocryphal but it's revealing of the way jogo do bicho operates, getting the best Police money can buy. iCommenting on the situation, economist Antonio Kandir, wrote in the daily newspaper Folha de S4 Paulo: "In the root of this process it is the disintegration of the Brazilian State.

During these years of crisis, while the State was losing its financial and managerial capacity of offering public goods in satisfactory quantity and quality, space was being open to the penetration of other kinds of power organization, in particular organized crime that started to provide public goods and muster increasing prestige among the needy people."

In Bangu, where 10,000 people have been used to live from bicho, the Mood is of sadness since Castor disappeared. As if in mourning, people have canceled ceremonies baptism and parties.

Manoi$ Martins, the owner of a little bar there, is grieving: "He is the man who helps the poor. People would ask for a cachacinha (liquor) and say that they were going to pick up the money with Castor.

Minutes later they'd come back with the money. Castor has arranged security for the train station and thF,p was never any ass nit again Even priest Max Rodrigues, o'llas received many contributions from the bicheiro for Sao Lourengo church, where Castor has always been to Mass, confides, "Castor is very discreet.

Somebody else would make the donations for him." "These donations are very common in any parish," he adds.

There are suspicions that Castor and his people have a partnership with Colombian Cali Cartel.

Preliminary findings show Rio bicheiros responsible for transporting cocaine in Brazil and shipping it overseas.

That's why agents from the American DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) embarked to liraz4 as; soon as they heard nnections.

NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

ECONOMY

Fast draw

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After three years in the red, Varig, the biggest Latin American airline, flies into a unilateral moratorium and forces a re-negotiation of contracts with its suppliers.

While the Brazilian economy is going downhill, a Gaucho weapons factory has been growing by leaps and bounds. With a big help from Uncle Sam and his gun-happy children.

DARLY TIFLEUR

DARLY TIFLEUR

Since March. Varig Airlines is not paying for the lease of 50 of its 80 airplanes and payments shouldn't be resumed before the middle of May. The startling news of the moratorium came in an announcement

by Rubel Thomas, the President of the airline.

Though yang's action caught its creditors off guard, the company's troubles weren't a secret to anybody. The firm has lost $340 million in 1992, and another $100 million last year. Since 1989, \twig has lost $950 million, equivalent to 80% of its patrimony. The best the company expects to do this year is to have a balanced budget.

In order to cut expenses to a tune of $30 million a year, the massive and normally wasteful firm has replaced bigger planes by smaller ones, has canceled some orders with Boeing (Varig is trying to get back millions of dollars paid in advance to the aircraft manufacturer) and fired about 5,000 of its 29,000 workers. yang's moratorium is nothing exceptional in the turbulent skies of recent years. That's the same recessionary global economy that shot down giant Pan Am and has for many years scared other American biggies like United and Continental. The thick fumes of the crisis reached Brazil in 1992. In emulating the American airlines in their price war, however. Brazilian air companies were only able to sink even deeper into their red sea of ink. The international competition represented mainly by American Airlines and United was an added blow.

Apparently all the cuts at Val-4 were not enough to stop the bleeding. Ironically, the bad weather came when the company, formed in 1927 by German immigrants, was entering an ambitious expansion program. yang was anticipating $6 billion in investments to meet the demand until the year 2,000. Aware that this wasn't the time to invest. and after some trimming on other sectors, Varig opted for cutting the annual half a billion dollar disbursement for leasing planes.

A Boeing 737 that shuttles between Rio and Sao Paulo, for example, costs $330,000 a month, an amount that is not being covered by the sale of tickets. According to some industry experts, if \Twig wants to go back to prosperity it cannot spend more than $200 million with leasing.

And besides, this would require another more extensive moratorium down the road, so it can gather some badly needed strength.

It was the recent assassination of Mexico's presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio that brought to light how powerful Brazil has become as a producer of guns. The weapon used by the alleged assas-

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A .38 like this killed Colosio.

sin Mario Aburto Martinez was a .38 Taurus manufactured in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. The revolver started its trail in 1977 in a San Francisco gun shop when it was bought by a reluctant security executive who was against arming his company guards.

Forjas Taurus S.A. is not a late corner to the gun market. The factory was founded by a German immigrant in 1937. Its big push. however, started in 1977 when Carlos Alberto Murgel and Luis Fernando Estima, two executives who were already working at Taurus, bought the interest of the American group Bunger Punta, which had been controlling the company since the early 70s. That's when the massive investment in the firm, which would amount to $30 million, started. More than 40% of the equipment was modernized and new technologies were introduced to eliminate waste and increase productivity.

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Murgel and Estima started by buying Ifestel, a tool factory (Taurus has 15% of the Brazilian tool market), followed in 1980 by the acquisition of the Brazilian subsidiary of Italian giant Beretta. The Taurus International Manufacturing Inc. was created three years later with headquarters in Miami. It was supposed to be the beachhead of the company in the U.S. serving as the intermediary between the Brazilian factory and the American consumer. Since then, however, the American branch has grown into the third biggest weapon factory in the States. Magnum 357, a favorite of American poloce Taurus is the third biggest manufacturer of handguns and pistols in the world. About 60% of the $85 million made by the firm in 1993 came from the United States. After all, 26% of all handguns being sold in the U.S. have the Taurus imprint. Americans annually buy about 150,000 of these handguns. And why the popularity? First, the price. The Taurus is cheaper than its legendary competitor, the Smith & Wesson. Besides, the companies give a life guarantee to its products. Among the American clients are the Police who have a love affair with the Magnum 357, a weapon of great power and precision that can cost from $260 up to $390.

Another bestseller is the more expensive PT 101 whose price can go as high as $600.

Until 1990, exports accounted for 50% of Taurus's business. Today, this has increased to 74%, while the company exports to 78 countries. Without that, most of its 2,200 employees would be out of a job, since according to Taurus vice-president Estima, "the recession has paralyzed the Brazilian market and our sales in Brazil were cut in half in the last two years." While in normal times the American market is 10 times bigger for Taurus, nowadays this disparity has increased to 20 times.

Taurus president Murgel doesn't like to boast about his company success and even less now after all the macabre publicity that the firm has been receiving. "Guns are not the problem," he repeated to more than one reporter calling from all over the world after the Mexican national tragedy. "We cannot choose who buys our product," he recently declared to weekly magazine IstoE. "This is a task that belongs to the authorities of each country." As part of its public relations, Taurus refuses to export arms to areas in conflict like Bosnia and promotes safe shooting classes in Brazil. â&#x20AC;˘

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ECOLOGY

Drought is not a new problem for the Brazilian Northeast. But now, the lack of action and resources is transforming a large part of the area into a desert.

There's hope of reversing this trend, if only the private sector and the govenrment would find and utilize the money to do so.

The transformation of vast stretches of land into desert is a planetary phenomenon that affects six million hectares of land in more than 100 countries involving at least 140 million people.

Sometimes this occurrence, known as desertificactio in Brazil, is a manmade event brought upon the land by mismanagement of natural resources through deforestation. Sometimes the ground itself is too poor to survive a prolonged drought. In the Brazilian Northeast this mutation into a desert is a combination of natural and manmade causes.

Infamous for its chronic problems with drought, Brazil's Northeast received last March a dramatic wake-up call. If something isn't done, and fast, half of the area will turn into a desert in 10 years. According to a study by DESERT (Nucleus of' Research and Control of Desertification in the Northeast), the nine states of the area are losing 55.2% of their territory to desertification. The portion affected, 666,000 square kilometers, represents an area equivalent to six states of Rio de Janeiro.

DESERT, a group from University of Piaui, presented its findings during the recent National Conference on Desertification which was held in Fortaleza, capital of Ceara state. The paper, called Evaluation of Brazil's Situation of Desertification - Diagnostic and Perspectives, concluded

that the country loses $7 a year for each hectare that becomes desert.

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Dying of thirst and neglect EMERSON LUIS

mean $125 million every year. But where to find this kind of money in a region persistently poor?

The Ceara conference is a followup to Eco-92, the ecological summit meeting that happened in Rio two years ago, and a preparation for the World Convention on Desertification which will be held in Paris next month. Brazil doesn't have any program that addresses the problem of desertification, even though the so-called Agenda 21, developed during the Rio summit,

talked about the matter. The Paris convention will have legal force and might compel Brazil to try to do something about this problem.

Right now the government is more worried about finding a way to keep almost two million people working in job programs that have already consumed $200 million in the last 12 months. When the rain started to fall in the area recently, the Ministry of Regional Integration decided to suspend the work in the programs, starting March 31. The justification: the families should go back to cultivate their own land.

But it's not that simple. For one thing, according to CONTAG (Confederation of Workers in Agriculture) there's not enough seed. Another problem is that the next harvest will happen only in July and people might starve until then, without some government help. To complicate the situation, the half-salary (around $30) paid to the laborers in some cases arrive more than two months late. SUDENE (Superintendency of the Northeast Development) has proposed the continuation of the program until the end of May in 477 of the 1155 municipalities being served.

These job programs were created as an emergency measure, after looting of warehouses and markets started to become common throughout the Northeast in recent years. It seems now, that the program was a good investment. These workers have left 80,000 miles in roads and water-mains, besides building 35,000 units that included houses and wells.

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The dream team For once critics and officials who choose the players for the Brazilian national soccer team are thinking almost the same. On such a squad there is now little chance for someone who until recently was a big hope for Brazilians: Rai. LAUREL DARNEL

The opening game for Brazil in the World Cup will be against Russia on June 20 and the official list of draftees to integrate the Brazilian national soccer team will not be announced before May 10; but in September of last year, head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira gave notice that our team would be the same that won the last game in the qualifying phase, with a few adjustments. That's new.

Not even in the so-called better times of the Selecao Brasileira has the basic team been chosen so far in advance.

In theory all might change just until few days before the first match.

In reality, Parreira not only knows who is prepared was very similar to the one going to be wearing a blue-yellow shirt, but defended by Parreira with only four difalso has decided that the tactical scheme ferences. will be one represented by the equation 4,4/Then there's Romario. Nobody has 2, meaning four players in the defense, four doubts about his virtuosity in the field in mid field and two in the attack. and he is considered the best player that Not everybody likes these numbers. And Brazil has today. The problem is his to those the coach responds: "This doesn't tremendous capacity for creating giganmean we are going to be locked in a defense tic messes off the field. He has a big mode. We are going to put pressure against mouth and has forced CBF to issue a the opponent all the time. However, only in good manners' manual in which players specific cases we will have three player in are forbidden to criticize colleagues and front." officials. The book, clearly with At least eight players seem to have a Romarioin mind, asks all players to use guaranteed spot on the national team. They moderation and care when talking in are the goal keeper Taffarel; Jorginho and public.

Ricardo Rocha in the defense; Dunga, Mario After the friendly game against the Silva and Zinho in mid-field; Bebeto and Paris Saint-Germain April 20, in Paris, Romario in the attack. The small changes the sele do will have only one more would have to do with chance to practice toRai, Dunga and Brangether in a real game co. The first one went before the Cup: it will in few months from be the May 5th match great hope of the that will happen in French team Paris Florianopolis, Brazil.

Saint-Germain to the While the Brazilreserve bench. Rai is ian team prepares to still out of shape and come to the U.S., a possibly will not little crowd of fans make the final cut. who have won tickets Since he was supand all expenses paid posed to wear the all for the trip will not be powerful number 10 allowed to embark for shirt his bad shape the States. Talking to represents more than weekly magazine a passing headache.

LitoE, a representaBranco, even though tive of the American playing badly against embassy in Brasilia Argentina in the showed no sportsfriendly game with manship, declaring that team, continues that no prize winner with CBF (Brazilian will have better Soccer Confederachance of getting intion) officials' backside the U.S. than any ing. Two names that other common Brazilhave risen quickly ian. "If someone wins during these last few a trip and doesn't conweeks are those of form with our requireBebeto & Romano: guaranteed spots.

Muller and Mazinho. ments, this is not a They could still guarantee a place on the problem of the U.S. or the consulate." team as first choice. Dunga might lose his, Among the promotions awarding since he continues with the team only be- trips to the U.S., there is one by Nestle cause Parreira is behind him. (through its Maggi product) in which the It's been said that Brazil has 160 mil- winners in different phases can choose lion coaches, meaning that all Brazilians either the trip to the States or a car, a are ready to criticize the official choice and house, or two years' worth of shopping to present it own ideal selecao. This time in a supermarket. Nobody has chosen all this populace of experts seems to be in the trip. Knorr, another soup, is offering tune with Parreira. In March, the dailyFo/ha as a prize 47 packages for two to particide Sao Paulo gave the chance to 50 person- pate in the Cup. But those who cannot alities linked to soccer so they could choose qualify to enter the U.S. can opt for a 30 their own ideal national team. The list they day stay in Italy.

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For example. take a person from El Salvador who is legally married to a Brazilian, Because the Brazilian can apply for a lottery visa. the Salvadoran spouse also can apply as one who is "to bc charged" to the Brazilian spouse's region. A husband. wife, and qualifying minor children may each apply separately for a lottery visa.

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There are no pre-printed application forms or application fees. An applicant may prepare his or her application or have somebody else dolt for him or her. A person who qualifies to apply for a lottery visa must send only one lottery application.

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The above completed sheet of paper must be sent in an envelope between 6 inches and 10 inches (15 cm. to 25 cm.) in length, and between 3 1/2 inches and 4 1/2 inches (9 cm, to 11 cm,) in width, The envelope must have in the upper left corner the following in- There is no secret and no formation: application forms or fees I. Applicant's native country (or country to which application is to apply for the Visa Lotto be charged as in the above extery Program. Here we ample); 2. Applicant's full name; teach you, step by step, 3. Applicant's mailing address how to try your luck or (which must be the same as shown on the application): help somebody.

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da it was draMa.ia Rosa„, had arraç verytti cn the class prepare breakfast, wash t little*ones, dress them, ir work like a nigger!” nd wake up the husban t was the hardest pa NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

Todos os dias aquela miseria...

Maria Rosa estava de pe As cinco da manha. Havia que Or a casa em ordem, arrumar a sala de aulas, preparar o café, lavar os pequenos, vesti-los, passar roupa - "tenho um servico de negra!" - e acordar o marido.

Era o mais dificil.

- Por que nao deita mais cedo, seu tranca? Fica lendo feito idiota ate no sei que horas, ou dando prosa corn esses vagabundos, e 'depois, quando tern que fazer alguma coisa, pega no sono que nem Cristo acorda!

E resmungando e imprecando, vassourao aqui, pano molhado au i "nao mexa al, menino!" - Maria Rosa continuava a peleja.

- Parece que eu cal da cadeira, no dia em que fiquei noiva desse coisa Atoa! Pra ter esta vida! Pra passar vergonha!

Arrumou tuna toalhinha de croche no aparador htunilde.

- Largue esse copo, Joaozinho!

Largue já! Largue, estou dizendo! E ameacadora, para o garoto lambudo que sorria feliz: - Menino! Menino! Ponha já o copo na mesa! Olhe o que estou dizendo!

0 pequeno continuava a negacear o corpo, o copo muito sujo, uma das maos mergulhada na Agua.

- Nao molhe o cho, criatura! A genie vive feito uma burra, tentando limpar a casa, vein urn coisinha desses emporcalhar tudo! Voce apanha, Joaozinho! Traga o copo aqui!

- Eu quelia beb8 agua!

- No quer beber coisa nenhuma.

Voce' quer e chinelo! Venha cA! - A sinhoia bate na gente!

-Nati bato! Venha aqui direitinho, me entregue o copo, que a marnae no bate.

- Eu sei que a sinhoia bat!

- Nao me enjerize, criatur VO-ce apanha já!

- Eu nao disse? A senhoia que é bate na gente... , Maria Rosa avancou-para o filho: - Me entregue o copo, menino!

Olhe que voce ainda vai quebrar esse copo! E o Anico que [em na casa!

Vamos! Vamos! No quero brincadeira!

- Alt! demoninho dos infernos!

Me molhando a casa toda! Deixa estar que eu te pego!

- Mane, mamae! Olha a Irene!

- A Irene Li puxando o cabelo da gente!

As duas meninas surgiram A porta.

- No estou, mamae, foi ela que comecott!

- Nao comecei nada, mama; foi ela que me xingou de peste!

- JA para o quarto! Todas duas de

castigo! Voces so prestam pra perder a cabeca da genie!

- Mas eti nao fiz nada! gritou Anita.

- Nao quero conversa! JA para o quarto! As duas!

Anita nao se confonnou.

- Ela que provoca e a gente é que vai de castigo!

- Nao quero choro! Cale a boca!

Senao, alem de tudo, voce ainda entra no chinelo!

- Ahn, mamae... a culpa é dessa cara de rato.

- Rato é voce, sua pamonha!

- Pamonha vai ela!

Maria Rosa agarrou as duas pela °rani.

- Quietas! Nao atormentem o juizo dos otttros!

0 choro recomecou. Ameacas.

Gritos.

- Nao me amolem a paciencia, que eu jA ensino voces. Olha que eu chamo seu pai!

Ergueu a voz para o quarto grande.

- Juuuca! Juuuca! Venha ver estas crianyas!

Voltou-se para as duas: - hi! De pe, ai no canto!

Foi bater A porta do marido.

- Rica! Seu dorminhoco! Sett preguicoso! Voce nao levanta? Venha ao menos dar urn jeito nos seus filhos, que eu nao posso mais! Venha cuidar das suas obrigacties! E quase meiodia!

E ouvindo o tilintar do copo quebrado: cachorrinho de uma figa!

Deus que me perdoe, mas eu nao sei por que e que fui botar esses porcarias no mundo!

Agarrou o pequeno pelo braco.

- Pestinha! Eu nao tinha dito que voce quebrava o copo? Nunca vi menino mais insuportAvel! Desbriado! Reinador!

Cobriu-o de palmadas.

- E nao quero choro, ouvitt? Abriu a boca, apanha mist Olhou a mats velha.

-0 que e que voc8 estA fazendo al, feito nao sei o que? Vamos! VA trabalhar. VA buscar a vassoura! Passe a vassoura na sala, que eu nao sou negra de ninguem, nib estou pra trabalhar sozinha!

- Mas en estou de castigo! é assim, nibo e? Quer ficar de castigo pra ver se nib° precisa fazer nada, pois nao? Eu já mostro pra que é que foi feito o rabo de tatu!

A menina tratou de raspar-se.

- Eu you buscar a vassoura, mamae. Arre! A senhora nem cla tempo da gente pensar...

E solicita: - Quer que espane os moveis?

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E voltando-se para o quarto onde o marido devia roncar: - Tambem, esse moleirao do seu pai nao presta nem pra tirar urn espanador do poco...

- Mas é fundo, mamae.

- Funda d a pouca-vergonha de voces todos. Saiu tudo da mesma massa do pai. Cada qual mais sem prestimo!

Arrumou uma cadeira de palha, deu urn peteleco no Joaozinho, que enfiara o dedo no nariz, e estourou corn a Irene: - E voce, o que é que esta fazendo al, que nao vai dar um chacoalhao em seu pai, que já esti na hora da aula?

A menina correu para o quarto.

Juca surgia a porta nesse moment°, o suspensorio caido, arrastando o chinelo.

- 0 que é isso, perguntou corn voz descansada e distante. Que gritaria 6 essa? Parece que o mundo vai acabar!

Maria Rosa pOs as maos nas cadeiras.

- Acaba. Nao duvido muito! 0 que duvido que acabe é a suapoucavergonha!

2 Juca voltou do quintal poucos minutos depois, a escova de dentes e o sabonete na mao, o cabelo caindo na testa, pro curando a toalha.

- Por que nao levou antes? Pelo menos no molhe o chat), criatura!

Já no chega a porcariada que as criancas fazem, vem voce tambem!

Arre, que inferno, minha Nossa Senhora! A escola ja no cla mais nada! Os pals estao tirando os filhos! Que voce nAo sabe ensinar, que voce nao liga, que a escola 6 um relaxamento. S6 ficam os que nao pagam. A gente que viva de brisa! E eu que me arrume, se nao quiser que as criancas morram de fome! S6 me falta sair por al pedindo esmola!

0 marido nao respondeu.

- Nat> enxugue as mks al, homem! No ye que isso é toallia de mesa?

- Esti bem, esta bem, Rosinha.

No e preciso tambem zangar por uma coisa dessas...

Quis ser (ail: - Olha o Joaozinho mexendo no acucareiro.

Maria Rosa voou para o menino.

- Eta crianca desesperada!

Deu-lhe dois ou tres tapas na mao.

- Largue dal, menino! Parece que tern lombriga! NA° he acacar que chegue! Eu nunca vi! Nem formiga!

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E entre nova ameaca ao filho e a entrega da toalha ao marido: - Nem sei por que milagre o senhor"Dao" conseguiu reparar nos malfeitos do filho! Voce vive sempre no mundo da lua!

Sorriu ironica, chanfrando-lhe no rosto o supremo sarcasmo do seu estoque: - Corn certeza nao estava precisando de rima, dessa vez...

Gritou para dentro - Anita?

- Senhora?

- Traga o café, a tigela e o pao, que seu pai tern que ir dar aula!

- Sim-senhora!

- Traga ja, sena° os meninos vac! embora. Eles ja estao cansados.

Levou as maos a cabeca.

- Ihl Meu Deus! Esqueci de peg o feijao no fogo.

Correu para a cozinha - "nem palitO de fosforo a gente tern nesta casa!" pegou o caldeirao - "me traga urn balde de agua, Anita!" soprou carvao longo tempo, reapareceu na sala de cadeiras de pallia, limpando a mao no avental.

-Eta homem descansado, minha Nossa Serihora! Nessa marcha, nos acabamos milionarios, e capaz ate do Ze Barriga comecar a fiar outrn vez...

- Mas, Rosinha, falou o marido, voce precisa ter urn genio mais ca Imo ...

- Eu sei! E so para o que voce presta. Genic) mais calmol Como se eu pudesse viver despreocupada corn esta vida. As criancas cobertas de trapos, eu sem vestido pra sair, came, quando Deus é servido, acougueiro thandando cobrar todo dia, vendeiro dizendo que nao fia mais, a vizinhanca falando, a vila toda metida na vida da gente, e essa escolinha al, que voce nao sabe dam jeito...

- Como nao sei, criatura? As criancas estao progredindo... Nao viu o Haroldo? Esse menino é urn talent... Eu nunca vi tuna inteligencia to viva, tao precoce...

Esse menino vai Ionge...

-,S6 se for sozinho... Coin voce eu duvido - Mas, Rosinha, voce preaisa ser mais cordata, ter mais espirito de justica... Eu fag() o que posso...

- Menos actardar na hora, ado 6? Faz meia hdra que as criancas estao esperando que o professor se lembre de deixar a cama... os bracos de Morten, nao é? - como voce diz nos seus versos... ' - Nao diga isso, meu bem, falou o marido afastando a tigela e enxugando os labios coin a costa da mao que era ainda o guardanapo mais barato.

E sorrindo:

"But, Rosinha," said the husband, "you need to take it easy..."

"I know. That's the only thing you're good for.

Take it easy! As if I could go carefree through life.

The children dressed in rags, and I without a dress to go out..."

- Desafio voce a encontrar em qualquer livro escrito por mirn referencia aos bracos de Morfeu.,..

- De Morfeu, talvez nao, mas de quanta vagabunda aparecer...

Rica achou graca: - Voce é impossiveL Maria Rosa.

E Outra vez' servical: - Olhe, o Jodozinho esta Fazendo pipi embaixo da mesa. s - E por que deixa? A culpa tambem é slut_ Por que nAo agarra cle pelo braco, nao (IA tins petelecos, nao faz alguma coisa?

0 professor obedeceu.

- Joaozinho, venha ca, meu Mho. A mamae ja nao disse tantas vezes que voce nao devia fazer pipi no chao? Seja bonzinho, ouviu? Nao suje a casa. Olhe que ela tern tanta coisa a fazer, tanto trabalho, e voces vem atrapalhar a coitada...

Maria Rosa, que enxugara a tigela e passava o pano pela mesa, tirando os farelos de pa°, irrompeu: - Bonita maneira de ,educar. Uma crianca de tres anos entende, mesmo, urn sorra° desses... Crianca entende é puxdo de orelha, ouviu? Va, pelo menos, btiscar um pano, enxugue o chao, - Ora, minha filha, eu nao posso... Sei la onde e que voce esconde os panos de limpeza... E depois a classe • esta esperando...

- TO bem. Vit, va... NA° amole. E melhor assim.

E enquanto limpava.o ladrilho alagado: - Sena°, corn esse ar de fora do mundo, ele ainda era capaz de limpar a mijada coin a toalha da mesa ou corn a colcha do casamento...

3 - Voce trouxe a composicao, Haroldo?

- Trouxe, professor. Deixe ver.

Rica, alias Jose Bentes de Campos Lara, Campos Lara tout-court, come era conhecido nos meios literarios, tinha especial predilecao por aquele garoto vivo, inteligente, de sensibilidade aguda, verdadeira vocacao para as letras. .

Recebeu a composi0o. Ia comecar a leitura, quando se lembrou.

- Ah! sim, vamos fazer a chamada. (...)

• 47 Os anos passarani. Os meninos cresciam. Os livros saiam. Campos Lard toniara-se o grande romancista do pals. ,Tinha urn- nome naetonal. Cartas chegavam de toda parte. Fugira sempre dos politicos. Ouvira, anos seguidos, os improperias da esposa, por nOo querer procurar coroneloes e chafes eleitorais que o admiravam, para pedir emprego.

- Voce nao presta mesmo para nada. Por que é que nao arranja, pelo menos, um emprego NEWS from BRAZIL-MAY 1994

Nunca pedira. Nao pediria nunca. Mas o seu nome enchera de tal forma o pals, que urn deputado amigo se lembrou de arranjar-lhe uma achega. Campos Lara, alem de ser o major romancista nac tonal, era amanuense de uma secretaria de Estado.

A gloria literaria, sempre crescente, abria-lhe todas as portas. Nao as procurava, mas estavam abertas. 0 diretor de urn colegio veto oferecer estudo gratis para os meninos. A Irene, a Anita, o Joaozinho, estudavam agora.

No fundo, Maria Rosa preferia que, em vez de escola, as criancas arranjassem emprego. 0 trabalho compensa. Irene poderia ser uma boa datilOgrafa.

Joaozinho faria carreira, na casa de Gomes, Correia & Cia. 0 estudo poderia estraga-los, faze-los iguais ao pai. No apogeu da sua carreira literaria, a merecer em toda parte mesuras e barretadas, de vez em quando urn reporter em casa, para fotografar o romancista a sua mesa de trabalho, ou simplesmente a mesa - urn retratara apenas o tinteiro e a caneta - Campos Lara vivia mediocremente, pobremente. Uma peleja tao grande, para ganhar pouco mais do que um empregado de escrit6rio.

Mas nem se atrevia a falar ao marido. Em certas coisas, Campos Lara conseguia ser inflexivel. Os filhos Ieriam que estudar. E apreensiva sempre, Maria Rosa auscultava as tendencias das meninas, já mocinhas, especialmente do filho, temerosa de ver o germe literario se revelar. Sua esperanca era que o seu qtrinhao de sangue os salvasse. Os filhos muito" mais dela do que dele. A sua came, o seu sangue, o seu sofrimento. Haviam crescido ao seu lado, passando privaciies, vendo o mau exemplo e o fracasso do pai.

E, sempre que podia, mandava o Joaozinho brincar casa do Gomes, com o garoto mais velho, ver a diferenca, invejar-lhe a riqueza!

48 Veio a guerra no outro mundo. Veio um abalo universal. Ideias novas, interesses novos, ideologias novas em cena. Uma cabeca gloriosa, aureolada de espiritualidade e de docura.

Trabalhava sempre. Urn, dois romances por ano.

Palpitantes de vida. Dolorosos de vida. Cheios de urn intimo, de urn suave desencanto.

Trabalhava pelo simples gosto de trabalhar, pela necessidade interior de produzir. JO no havia aquela ansia moca e irrefreavel de gloria. Chegara ao climax da sua carreira. Todas as consagracoes literarias o haviam coroado. As academias o disputavam. Os jornais. As revistas.

Foi quando chegou a hora fatal da demolicao. Aos seus pes, geracOes mais novas disputavam-lhe o passo e o lugar. Uma turba irreverente, trinta anos mais

"Nice way to raise a child. A three-year-old can really understand a sermon like that...

Kids understand when you pull their ears, you hear? Go at least get a rag, and clean up the floor."

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moca, procurava •lugar ao sol. Feita de outros sonhos, de outras tendencias, de outras inquietacoes.

Devorada por outros problemas.

Buscando o seu rumo. Procurando afirmar-se.

E na ansia de ocupar lugar, de encher a terra, nao podia tolerar os velhos idolos. Campos Lara fizerase urn idolo. Campos Lara tornouse urn papa°. Sua voz nada significava, reboava sem eco pelas quebradas do pals.

A principio, foi apenas a incompreensao, a perda de contato.

Depois foi preciso destruir.

E urn dia uma voz moca, um nome desconhecido, abriu fogo.

Escandalo. Revolta. Mais outra voz.

E mais outra. Eram os devoradores.

Era a nova geracao. A que seria a seu tempo devorada.

E a palavra de ordem dos mocos passou a ser a destruicao de Campos Lara! Escarneciam da sua obra, zombavam do sett feitio, ridicularizavam a sua atitude, a filosofia,. a; forma, os cacoetes literarios.

Escritor moco que desejasse aparecer atirava-se contra o papa°.

Escritores velhos, despeitados, sem saber que representavam outra verdade e outro tempo, faziam coro.

0 Benicio Teles (6 verdade que o senhor nao toma banho?) surgiu tambem na arena. Desancouo antigo irmao de caravana.

E os pobres e os humildes e os vencidos clue enchiam a obra de Campos Lara foram repudiados como falsos. 0 sett doce e brand° ceticismo foi metido 0 bulha. Os tempos novos pediam afirmacao, pediam coragem, nao admitiam dnvidas, ceticismo, encruzilhadas, bracos cruzados, torres de marfim.

E num fragor de tempestade que contagiava e crescia e se avolumava, toda a obra de trinta longos anos foi caindo e se desfazendo.

49 A principio Campos Lara achou graca. Eram os ossos da gloria. A glOria combatida é a verdadeira gloria. Outros haviam bebido morte de D'Annunzio. NA° era de estranhar que urn macaco indigena bebesse tambem 0 sua.

Mas quando a onda cresceu e quando Campos Lara sentiu que a terra lhe fugia aos pes, quando se viu divorciado do pensamento novo, das novas inquietacoes, lima deso lacao mortal encheu-lhe a alma.

Subira sozinho. E estava so.

Toda a sua obra ruia. Trinta anos de trabalho. Cinqiienta anos de sonho.

Lutara tanto, sofrera tanto, sacrificara o melhor tempo da sua vida, sacrificara o seu lar, o seu amor, pelo sett ideal de arte. Julgara

alcanca-lo. Provara o gosto amargo da gloria. E tudo agora esboroava.

Todo o alto castelo que construira corn lagrimas, corn sofrimento, corn paixao, esbarrondava ao simples sopro de uma geracao que o demolia, como ele tentara demolir trinta anos antes, coin a mocidade do seu tempo, as glorias encontradas.

Podia contar corn a posteridade.

Mas nao contava. A posteridade o abandonaria, como o abandonava o presente, como o abandonara, na hora amarga, o pobre barbeiro de Capinzal.

Corn infinita amargura, feita de desapontamento e de fel, revia o grande erro da sua vida. Enveredara pelo sonho, esquecera a realidade imediata. Sacrificara, por aquele ideal inntil, a felicidade dos seus.

Nunca soubera ouvir e compreender a voz de Maria Rosa. Razao tinha ela. Antes houvesse aprendido a sua verdade, a verdade do Gomes.

Teria vestido a mulher, alimentado os filhos. Nao os teria vista crescer envoltos em trapos, sofrendo privacOes, passando vexames, sem ter provado jamais certas alegrias, s6 na infancia profundas e grandes.

E tudo por causa do seu egoismo.

Era o egoismo que via agora castigado. Sedento de gloria, cego pela sua vaidade de escritor, nao fora jamais o companheiro que Maria Rosa merecera, nao fora jamais o pai a que os Mhos tinharn direito.

Pelo amor de urn livro a criar, de um romance a escrever, deixara que os filhos chorassem de fome, ouvira surdo, quase hostil, Irene pedindo vestido, Anita pedindo calcado, Joaozinho pedindo patim, Anatolio tossindo sem remedio - e aqueles gritos voltavam agora, e ouvia o pranto de novo - e vira, indiferente, egoista e mau, Maria Rosa lutando sozinha, Maria Rosa chorando, Maria Rosa imprecando, Maria Rosa, que ele se espantava de ver agora a seu lado, a incomparavel lutadora, a pedir-lhe que saisse, de chicote em punho, a chicotear aqueles ingratos, a castigar aqueles patifes!

50 E Campos Lara silenciou.

Abandonou a pena. Passou a ser um trabalhador quase anonimo de jomal, um simples operario. 0 lugar da Secretaria, s6, nao bastava. A multidao de livros publicados trazia-lhe ainda, de quando em vez, tuna achega ironica.

Fugia agora aos literatos. Via em cada antigo companheiro o inimigo que intimamente se cornprazia corn a derrota do vencedor.

Via em cada novo a incompreensao, a hostilidade.

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Descobriu entao o lar. A esposa e os filhos. Anatolio iniciava criou coragem. E c itou .qtie • estava escreven4o untas coisas. Nao sabia se prestavam, se os estudos. tinha jeito. NA° queria fazer - 0 privilegiado! 0 de sorte! papel ridiculo. litstava ha muito para lhe falar. Queria a sua Eram os irmaos mais velhos que viam, corn certo despeito, opiniao franca. Estaka disposto a ver a bobagem? a infancia mais ordenada e mais feliz do irmaozinho menor.

Campos Lara ertkpalideceu.

Anatolio possuia brinquedos corn que haviam sonhado toda - Estava. a vida. Tivera patinetes e cavalinhos de pau. Ganhara velocipede.

E muito %Trine*, tremulo, o rapaz lhe estendeu uma folha.

E Campos Lara prometera - ele, que aos outros nem sequer Era um poema. 0 pai sentiu uma turvacao na prometera! - uma bicicleta. vista; percebeu que o coracao lhe batucava no - Cactila é isso: o a-docloi! peitO. Correu os olhos pelo poema, versos livres, Eles nao sabiam que agora a major tristeza de lingtiagem nova, imagens febris, uma revelacao Campos Lara nao era o esbarrondar da sua obra, inqui!etante de poeta, voltado para os problemas mas a recordacao da infancia dolorosa e The father que cram a angustia da sua geracao. humilhada que dera aos outros filhos. could see the u filho era poeta. Urn arrepio de orgulho e Mas no lar, que nao soubera construir, sentiade erpcgo percorreu-lhe a pele. Afinal de contas, se igualmente so. Os filhos so agora o viam de sad eyes in tinha sido aquele o seu sonho toda a vida. Um perto. Como urn estranho. Quase como urn filholque o perpetuasse, que valesse por si, que intruso. Para as meninas, era o estorvo. his son, he lhe Sontinuasse a obra. E teve o impulso de Controlando os estudos, vigiando os namoros, abratia-lo. Sentiu que os seus olhos se enublavam counted the sindicando as companhias, dando ganja ao cacula, de 14grimas. Lembrou-se, porem, de sua vida. o verdadeiro senhor da casa, cheio de luxos e pimples on Dos inos de luta, de sonho, de torment° e de vontades. agorlia criadora. Da vida ardua, humilde, Joaozinho, seri°, grave, caladao, no tinha his face. It sacrificada e dolorosa que vivera. Da existencia expansiies. Era urn rapazola quieto e fechado, was love. que ,dera • a familia, dominado pelo seu metido corn a sua vida, sempre longe de casa. devolamento exclusivo 0 arte. Da vida que dera E Campos Lara procurava auscultar, corn Certainly it ao piOprio filho. Era essa, a vida que ele tinha intimo temor, o coracao e as tendencias do filho. diantie de Si. Que tenant os Mhos de seu filho. E Mas o rapazola nao falava. No se abria. Maria was love. It que seria talvez pior, porque nao era somente a Rosa, agora confiante e companheira, - os dois Outras insidias e outros, was that age. arte la comungavam nas mesmas apreensdes, - ficava deselioanos o esperavam. corn ele horas perdidas, a pensar no futuro do -Prestam? Continuo? menino. Joaozinho seria sempre "o menino".

Clampos Lara sorriu. E batendo urn cigarro, o - Ele falou em entrar para Direito.

- Mas por que voce nao disse, Maria Rosa, que seria melhor pensamento melanc lico no vazio da vida, ficou olhando o filho, Engenharia? Ele tinha tanto jeito para a matematica, no se sem achar resposta. • Excerpts from 0 Feijdo e o &mho. lembra?

Era medo inconfessado de que o Direito, o papelorio, o palavrorio o desviasse da vida pratica, o encaminhasse para a literatura. Uma carreira mais objetiva, mais imediata, cheia tambem de beleza, apelando tambem para o espirito criador, afastaria todo o possivel genne do mal.

Urn dia Campos Lara penetrou no quarto do filho, encontrado casualmente aberto. Ele mesmo o limpava, tinha-o sempre fechado. Foi ver, ansioso, os livros que se amontoavam na mesa e na pequena estante que ele mesmo construira. (Ah! por que no 0 melhor da se fazia engenheiro?)

La estavam muitos dos seus livros. Alguns volumes 1V GLOB° PVC' ed% estrangeiros, de poesia e de literatura. Mas o grosso da sua I biblioteca incipiente era constituido por livros estranhos, brochuras sobre ideologias modemas, panfletos de propaganda. semanalmente em sua casa Mocidade! Mocidade! Ah! os seus vinte anos, quando Elisen Reclus, Malatesta, Jaures, Proudhon e o famoso "Manifesto" NOVELAS das 6, 7 & 8 PM, JORNAL NACIONAL, procuravam chama-lo para o campo da luta!

Mas aquilo o tranqttilizou. Joaozinho revelava, nas suas leituras, uma inquietacao diferente. Eram os problemas socials.

FANTASTICO, ESCOLJNHA DO PROFESSOR RAIMUNDO, Era a questao social. Estava no seu direito e no seu dever. E a questa.° social talvez no fosse uma questa° de literatura.

GLOBO RURAL, ESPORTES, MINI SERIES, 51 Campos Lara notou, nos olhos ensombrados, sonhadores, do CARNAVAL, PROGRAMAS MUSICAIS filho, que o rapaz o procurava. Tinha qualquer necessidade de desabafo. A legrou-se. 0 filho chegava-se. Nao quis ser indiscreto.

SHOWS E mais No perguntou. Esperou. Os dias foram passando. Joaozinho as vezes sentava-se ao seu lado, no escritorio, a palavra afogada na Distribuidor Exclusivo da garganta.

0 pai via os olhos tristes do filho, contava as espinhas no seu REDE &ORO rosto. Era amor. Corn certeza era amor. Estava na idade. E esperava a confidencia.

Uma tarde, o rapaz se atreveu.- Papai, eu estava querendo falar corn o senhor.

- Fale, men filho.

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ALBERTO JARDIM

It these times when the Brazilian political mainstream seems to be once again engaged in another decisive and historical turning point, it may be worth casting some light on a thoughtful and interesting essay, Brazil in the Third Millennium (Editora JB, 246 pg.). With an introduction by noted sociologist Gilberto Freyre, the work was drafted back in 1983 by a relatively obscure "northeasterner," an engineer named, Joao Ricardo Mendes.. At this juncture in our history, with the presidential race, elections for all legislatures; constitutional reform; currency stabilization, and many more issues at stake, the ideas of Professor Mendes merit revisiting.

We can begin by taking a look at the above map, which illustrates a proposed division of Brazil into 35 states, all of them roughly comprising an average area of about 250,000 sq. km. This scheme, as suggested by Professor Mendes, consists of regrouping the Brazilian population across a net of already existing medium to small-sized urban communities. Each community would maintain control over its immediate adjacent geoeconomic area, and these areas, would in turn be scattered throughout a much larger portion of our territory.

Along with this plan. Mendes proposes an entirely new federative system, more equally balanced and implying a new pattern of economic bonds among regions. Among the goals of such a system would be a reduction, of industrial concentration, innovative agricultural initiatives linked to specific determinisms of each area, and, in the end a new social fabric. Considering the context in which day-to-day Brazilian business is presently conducted in relation to politics, such a monumental task hardly seems feasible.

Mendes believes that Brazil as a society has not yet realized the importance of taking full advantage of its geographic potential. Since the majority of population is cramped along a tiny range of coastline, much of Brazil's hinterland is left unoccupied. That, asserts Mendes, structurally hampers the prospects of balanced development.

Mendes finds that major demographic trends, persist in this direction: In 1940, the rural Brazilian population constituted 69% of the total. This number subsequently fell to 55% in 1960 until, in the absence of corrective measure, Brazil emerged as a predominantly urban environment, with more than 75% of its population now living in urban areas. The cities, meanwhile, sustained a level of such disorganized growth that they are incapable of supporting adequate infrastructure.

In addition to this, let it be stressed that his projection of a 31

population growth of 3% per year - which could lead us to deal with a total of 600 million people by the year 2100 - remains unchallenged. According to Mendes, if we apply this figure to the belt along our coastline, where the population is currently approximately 120 million (1994 estimate), we could come up against a population density worse than that of Bangladesh (666 inhab ./km2 ).

Professor. Mendes goes on to conclude that since this population is not well distributed along the coast and tends to be concentrated in particular areas of the Northeast and Southeast, we could find life almost impossible in some centers by the middle of the next

century. "All this," the engineer reminds us, "while we have a population density of around 16 inhabitants per sq. Km (1994 estimate)." That places us 19th among the world's most populated countries, and even presupposes setting aside the whole territory of the Brazilian Amazon (40% of the total).

Although many of its essential features were not clearly defined (Mr. Mendes proposes for instance the construction of new cities and heavy participation of the state in the process - all impractical in the present context), a balanced administrative redivision of Brazil would bring a new dimension to the economic and social development of the country. It could, for example, provide the opportunity to redress some of the negative aspects of our national heritage, such as problems stemming from the colonial past that continue to plague our culture large uneconomic properties; artificial urban and economic environments erected upon cycles of monoexploitation; mercantilist mentalities associated with colonialism; the consequences of slavery and its innocuous and unplanned abolishment.

Equally important, such a redivision could enhance the potential for a more just federative system, the decentralization of power would take place within a more balanced environment, whose new unities would be capable of reaching a real level of autonomy. We might find ourselves marching toward municipalism, the ultimate goal, where effective government, accountable to its population, could be attained.

For such a result, we would have to reduce by at least three times the present number of our "counties", and provide them with more jurisdiction over larger areas.

The present model of concentration along the Rio-Sao Paulo axis not only constitutes an enormous attraction to impoverished populations, it represents a suicidal tendency. In the not-so-distant future. these "megalopolises" will be home to millions and millions of people.

This will bring about insoluble energy problems, not to mention waste, pollution, and the bankruptcy of public services. On the political level, urban concentrations will demand the solution to urgent and complex

problems, impossible to achieve in short- or even medium-term prospects, providing a fertile terrain for all kinds of demagogic proposals, which will flourish in an environment of political and social instability.

Clearly, it is of the utmost importance for the young generations to struggle with History in hand and Geography in mind.. The task which lies ahead may be overwhelming and full of dangers; but the lack of a geopolitical strategy could plunge the Brazilian state into chaos.

In its wake our society will follow. The elements that threaten our political unity, that could even lead to civil war, are all there - waiting like a Pandora's box to be irremediably unleashed.

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MUSIC Coisa bonita (Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos)

Pretty thing

Amo voce assim e no sei por que Tanto sacrificio Ginastica, dicta, nao sei pra que Tanto exercicio Olha cu nao me incomodo Urn quilinho a mais no é antiestetico Pode ate me beijar Pode me lamber que eu sou dietetic° Nao acho que é precis° Comer de tudo que tern na mesa Mas passar fome no Contribui em nada para a beleza Já no passado os mestres Da arte diante da formosura Nâo dispensavam o charme de uma gordinha Em sua pintura Gosto de me encostar nesse seu decote Quando te abraco De ter onde pegar Nessa maciez enquanto te amasso Eu no sou • massagista E nao entendo nada de estetica Mas a nossa ginastica E mais gostosa e menos atletica Coisa bonita Coisa gostosa Quern foi que disse Que tern que ser magra pra ser formosa Coisa bonita Coisa gostosa Voce é linda do jeito que Cu gosto Maravilhosa.

I love you like that and I don't know why Such sacrifice Gymnastics, diet, I don't know what for So much exercise Look, I don't care A couple pounds more is not antiaesthetic You can even kiss me Even lick me. I'm dietetic I don't think you need To eat everything that's on the table But starvation doesn't Contribute at all to beauty In the past the masters Of art in face of pulchritude Couldn't do without the charm of a sweetie chubby one In their painting I like to lean against your cleavage When I hug you To have a place to grasp This softness while I squeeze you I'm not a masseur And I know nothing about aesthetics But our gymnastics Are tastier and less athletic Pretty thing Tasty thing Who said You have to be lean to be beautiful Pretty thing Tasty thing You are lovely The way I like it Marvelous.

0 13 e9Ple gather me q,n0g00, s stadium in Rio to see t i.iit be. n • of the Luz tour, a show that puth King Roberto Carlos Keria • to celebrate his 35 years in the music business. After more than three decades, Roberto, singing songs from all kiases, seems fresher th

Last March the Justice of Rio de Janeiro condemned singer Roberto . :, Carlos to pay damages and reparations to part-time crooner Sebastiao Ferreira Braga who had accused the composer-interpreter of plagiarizing his song Loucu lmor, released in 1983. After a judicialobattle that lasted four year r ,.,.' i el..? ' 4.11. ua ed that Roberto Carlos and his partner Erasmo . .Carlos hud len 1 meastdirWitlf a total of 43 identical notes ,:. ,.. :.,R. from Ferreira Brag tune and used it in 0 Careta, a song against drugs, recorded in 19 The fine co J us high as $3 million, since the LP in which the song was included so 1 ost four million copies Prevented from appealing at the state level, the singer's lawyer says that he is going all the way to the Supreme Court.

Being accused of or condemned for plagiarism is hi new for artists. Michael Jackson, Julio :Iglesias, the Gypsy Kings, to nonameg a few, all have been accused of intellectual pilfering. British rocker Rod Stewa rt, when condemned for having stolen the introduction of Jorge Ben Jo? Ta .

Iahal to use it in his song Do You Think I'm Sexy, decided to donate the record's royalties to charity.

No matter how unfortunate the news it probably won't get more than a footn definitive biography gets written. After al record-selling champion, Roberto, 52, is hav

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about a crooner whose LPs, year after year, never sell fewer than one million copies. It happens that his latest release, helped by Coisa Bonita (see the complet lyrics below), a hymn to the chubby woman, which has agreed with the taste of the public, has sold one million copies in just one month. He is more used to selling this amount during a whole year.

There are other signs that it's Roberto Carlos's time all over again. During his traditional Christmas special on TV, he was joined on the stage by Chico Buarque de Hollanda, a very reserved popular composer and singer whose lyrics are so inspired that they are used in language classes for literary analysis. Even though Roberto has always had big numbers to present, he had scared away in the last decade the so-called classes A and B, which are composed of the best educated and most influential and richest Brazilians. He has been considered by these people as someone campy and melodramatic who has lost his touch with modernity.

And then there is Caetano Veloso, another fifty something, who has never lost his appeal with the younger and hipper population. Veloso, one of the founders of the Tropicalismo musical movement at the end of the sixties, continues at the forefront of the evolving Brazilian pop music. He has included in his latest show, which toured the nation and was eventually made into a record, Roberto's song Debaixo dos Caracois de setts Cabelos (Under the Curls of Your Hair), a composition written by Roberto and dedicated to Caetano when the Baking tropicalista was in exile in London after a clash with the military censorship in Brazil.

Finally, another Bainno, singer Maria Bethania, Caetano's sister and another cult star in the Brazilian pop firmament, released an album with songs exclusively by Roberto and his partner Erasmo Carlos. In this case, the undertaking seems to have benefited more the homage giver than the homage receiver. 13ethania, who hadn't been able to sell more than a few thousand of her releases in recent years, saw her last effort, As Cancoes que Voce Fez Pra Mint (The Songs You Made for Me) become a hit, with more than 200,000 copies sold, and half a million being expected to be sold by Polygram in a few more months. The Bahiana singer had the ability to perform Roberto's songs with a sophisticated arrangement which added a lot to the romantic banalities of the so-called King of the Young People.

The King gained his regal title at the beginning of his career. In 1959, Roberto Carlos was an unknown, singing Bossa Nova songs at the Plaza Nightclub in Copacaban a la Joao Gilberto. He even imitated the Pope of Bossa Nova as the masked singer in a tropical Star Search-like program called Buzina do Chacrinha. His first record, a double with Jo "do e Maria and Fora de Toni (both from Imperial) never made any impression.

His big break came when he had a chance to replace young singer Sergio Murilo who had left CBS (bought later by Sony).

In 1965 he would have his own program on TV, the Jovem Guarda, a show that was invented in a hurry by So Paulo's Record TV when the soccer'clubs decided to prohibit the live broadcast of their teams' games. The show became the first pop phenomenon of the country. The 23 year old singercomposer, already the King, would influence how young people dressed, behaved and talked.

He used to say phrases like; "E uma brasa, mora, ulna lenha." ("It's hot, you dig, a fire."), creating a very "personal slang that survived many years. The Jovem Guarda, with ieie-ie (the Beatles' yeah, yeah, yeah) songs, was seen live by 3 million people in So Paulo. The videotape was shown later all over the country. The tune Calhambeque (Jalopy) became a hit in 1966, not only in Brazil but all over Latin America. In Paris, it became the second best-selling record. Calhambeque was also the name of a label selling clothes, shoes and jewelry NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

Roberto and his handlers (he has the last word on everything) have always known how to sell his product.

When Jovem Guarda ended in 1968 Roberto was already the best seller singer of the country, a distinction that he would keep until now. Despite his image as a rebel without a cause, Roberto Carlos since the beginning was also what he later became more famous for: the romantic balladeer. One of his first hits was Nei° Ouero Ver Voce Triste Assiut (I Don't Want to See You Sad Like That), a syrupy love poem recited while a plangent tune was heard in the background.

Roberto is a money-making machine today. He is presently commemorating a 35-year career with a national tour called Luz (Light). His only project that didn't work was a record in English. RC has released 36 titles, having sold 70 million copies of his records in Brazil and in Latin America.

In 1989 he wona Grammy and reached first place on Billboard's Latin chart.

He makes at least $2.5 million annually with shows (his fee goes from $35,000 to $120,000 per presentation). With the sale of records he gets another $2, $2.5 million. Some of this money is invested in his RC ParticipacOes holding company.

The umbrella enterprise includes artistic firms, three car dealerships, a car rental concern, a transportation company, a real estate company and a radio station.

Roberto, although incapable of being rude, continues to be a very private person. For two years he has been sharing his apartment in Urea, Rio de Janeiro, with Maria Rita, a teacher 20 years younger than he is. Only recently he allowed both of them to be photographed together for the first time. In this case, the reason is not only because the singer wants to protect his beloved from nosy reporters.

He still likes to let his female fans fantasize that he is a bachelor and available and that his romantic songs are written exclusively for her who is listening.

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ontinuing in the fine tradition of the Brazilian supergroup Zil and Teo Lima's Batacoto comes Terra Sul's debut release on Mojazz, Kindness of Strangers. As a staple of San Francisco's club scene, Terra Sul combines its Brazilian roots with a pop sensibility that makes it a natural choice for your music collection.

This marriage is made possible by the production talents of Peixoto and co-producer Robert Margouleff, the man who introduced Stevie Wonder to the world of electronic keyboards. Can lightning strike twice with Terra Sul?

Milton Nascimento's latest album, Gal Costa's latest association, and the success of Timbalada.

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I believe it can. "Matatlantica" and the opening track "Lands" flow with seamless passion guided by singer Mauro Saldanha's wordless vocals. Instrumental gems like "Debra Ann", "Heavenly Bodies" and the title track avoid popish musical clichĂŠs with a refreshing confidence.

Saldanha's stirring lyrics on "Deus Darr underscore Terra Sul's diversity as the toinbo rhythms push the song along.

From beginning to end, Kindness of Strangers delivers a musical masterpiece.

Although the process of finding a US label to release Rita Peixoto and Carlos Fuchs self-titled CD has yet to bear fruit, the Leblon (Brazil) release has received critical acclaim on both sides of the equator. Centered on the sensitive interplay between Fuchs acoustic grand piano and Rita Peixoto's emotive voice, the duo literally reshapes these ten songs in a dramatic, introspective fashion.

Chico Buarque's "Desalento" is transformed from its original samba into a powerful statement of lost love.

Others, like Gilberto Gil's "Requiem para Mae Menininha do Gantois" and Cartola's "Rolam nos Meus Olhos" receive the same reverent makeover. Rita Peixoto & Carlos Fuchs is a memorable album that I suspect will be talked about for years to come.

We'll be talking about Milton Nascimento's Angelus, too, but not for the same reasons. Heavily promoted both here and in Brazil. Angelus has received mixed reviews for this mixed bag of new and old, with a star-laden guest list: Peter Gabriel. Fhivio Venturini, James Taylor, Wayne Shorter and Yes's Jon Anderson to name just a few.

Talent of this type is testament to Nascimento's uncontested stature in the musical universe but Angelus does fall short of its promise.

The best moments are reserved for his resurrection of "Clube da Esquina" and "Vera Cruz", where Nascimento rises to the occasion, propelled by Pat Metheny, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock and drummer Jack DeJonette.

But his collaborations with Taylor ("Only A Dream In Rio") and Gabriel (- Qualquer Coisa a Haver com o Paraiso") fall flat in an attempt to accommodate the guests.

Recently, Nascimento has found the need to attach himself to causes. First it was with the Indians in Txai and now Angelus suggests that the world will end in 10 years, urging us all to conserve, abstain and recycle. However. I'd be willing to bet that there's no recycled paper or plastic in

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this CD. Nascimento would do better to concentrate on his music, but I guess it's tough to be a politically correct singer these days.

Gal Costa has no such problems, but her search for consistent production quality has led her to some interesting unions. None have been more provocative than with cutting edge producer Arto Lindsay, whose background with the Ambitious Lovers brings an unusual perspective to his projects.

cal identity. We like the same things and he appreciates my singing. When he composes for me, it's as if we're talking to each other."

Having just recently completed a year-long road show honoring Chico Buarque's celebrated career, Badi Assad has become the latest member of this talented family to turn her creative energies As with his work on Caetano Veloso's towards the popular Brazilian Circulado, his production technique with Gal songbook.

Costa's 0 Sorriso do Gato de Alice (The Smile Her Chesky release Solo showon Alice's Cat) takes a decidedly Spartan ap- cases this guitar virtuoso, and as with her famous brothers Sergio proach for her 20th career album. and Odair before her, Badi Costa turned to Lindsay with the idea of stretches the boundaries of musiconcentrating on the work of four composers: cal form with 14 beautifully Djavan, Jorge Benjor, Caetano Veloso and crafted songs from the hands of Gilberto Gil. "Basically an acoustic album, 0 Buarque, Egberto Gismonti, VillaSorriso do Gato de Alice was put together by Lobos & Gonzaga and Edu Lobo.

Arto, after listening to all of my albums, where Ralph Towner's "When The Fire I recorded several composers of different tendencies and styles," said Gal at a recent BMG Burns Low" takes on a classical interview session surrounding the album's re- face, as do many of the selections on Solo. And while songs like lease.

"Fuoco" burn with an unrestrained "Gratitude", written by Veloso and Lindsay energy, Assad' s gentle vocals and with English lyrics, is a good example of the thoughtful playing set the tone for producer's direction. A wandering melody with the album. Badi Assad's music lyrics to match delivers a confusing tribute to compels you to really listen.

Gal's early mentors from the U.S..

Cheslcy Records makes that easy to do, and its reputation of record"I've always liked the great American singers; Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie ing excellence gains points on Holiday. My greatest teacherwas Joio Gilberto, Solo. The subtle nuance of her but I still listen to Sinatra and Nat Cole. In fact, vocal inflections, mated to her I used to mimic Nat at parties with my friends," acoustic guitar work is remarksaid Costa. "Caetano and I have a great musi- able considering her range and

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The new dance trend, called requebra after a song by Ze Paulo notwithstanding, is perfect for Timbalada's self titled CD on Polygram Brazil. Voted one of the best albums of the year for 1993, this banda has gained a solid reputation for energetic music and penetrating lyrics.

Colorfully outfitted in AfricanIndian greasepaint and costumes, and backed by the musical presence of Callinhos Brown with a powerful percussion group. Timbalada pushes through a crowded collection of 13 songs including "Toque de Timbaleiro" and "Mulate do Buncle". Move over, Olodum. Make room for Timbalada.

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lagoas is a small state of the Northeastern region of Brazil with 29,106.2 km2. Diversity can be seen in various aspects of this urprising place. From its historical discovery in 1501 by Americo Vespucci to the beauty of the poetry produced by Graciliano Ramos and Djavan, both sons of the land, Alagoas does not hide its grandeur, which can be appreciated in its people, in its beaches, in its food, in its crafts, and in its history.

A good way to begin your adventure in this exotic tropical paradise would be in Maceio. The state's modern capital is located in a green belt marked by a colonial architecture that carries history in every tile and brick. You might witness this rich history in the Born Jesus dos Martirios church with its lovely Portuguese tiles; in the Jaragua architectural complex, where Maceio was born; in the houses of the Dom Pedro II Plaza; or still in the Museum of Anthropology and Folklore.

An attraction you can't miss are the beaches (Alagoas has 150 km - 93.2 miles - of coastal beauty) where palm trees, coconut trees, and banana trees decorate the sand and serve as a trim for the ocean. The best one is Pajucara with its picturesquejangadas (sail rafts) whose enormous white sails are a kind of poetry in the wind. On Saturdays, after a visit by jangada to the natural pools formed by the low tides, you will discover that all over Pajugara there is a delightful party going on with the traditional folklore dance forro and lots of typical food.

It's true that Sobral and Avenida, two beaches which are a short walk from downtown, are polluted. But if you head north, you'll be able to enjoy some of the best beaches the Northeast has to offer. Among other enchanting beaches there are Cruz das Almas, Jatitica, Trapiche, Pontal da Barra, Ponta Verde, dos Franceses, and Sete Coqueiros.

To enjoy a panoramic view of Maceio go to one of thesemirantes (belvederes) Sao Goncalo or Santa Terezinha. In the outskirts of the capital you'll find great options for relaxation, fishing, and fun. At Barra de Sao Miguel, located 34 km.

(21 miles) from Maceio and visited the year arround by fishermen and tourists, you will be delighted by its primitive Gunga beach and its fresh and salt waters. There you can double you fun either swimming, fishing or jet skiing.

If you want to give yourself a treat while you relax you can taste barbecued shrimp with beer in one of the rustic huts along the beach. There are several unspoiled beaches in the area. The Paripueira beach, for example, has crystal blue waters, besides being a great place for people to fish at night and participate in some street carnaval.

At Ipioca you will be able to enjoy the tropical feeling in the middle of an ocean of coconut trees

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and endless fields of clear sand.

The historical route of Alagoas shows many houses and churches of the colonial and baroque periods. Penedo, 173 km. (107.5 miles) south of Maceio, displays the baroque style in its churches (more than 20), convents, and houses, which turns this city into an open air museum. Marechal Dcodoro was the first state capital, and is the birth place of Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazil's first president.

From this city came also another celebrity: renowned writer Graciliano Ramos, who in the 1920s was its mayor.

The popular arts and crafts represent another high point in Alagoas. The production of hand made lace, is not only a local craft, but an art of unspeakable beauty, and it is the main source of income for many local women. Pottery, straw works (as hats, bags, baskets, belts, sandals, and mats), and wood works are some other fields in which Alagoanos excel.

The area typical food comes from the sea. Lobster, shrimp, oyster, and all kinds of fish are prepared in a variety of ways. But there is also the regional food, as sun dried salted beef with green beans, chicken stews, barbecued corn, pamonha (a type of sweet polenta), and many sweets like eanfica (a lager version of the American grits), pe-de-moleque (peanut candy) and tapioca. The drinks are also as exotic as the food. The tangerine and passion fruit juices, as well as the violet essence, and the genipapo (fruit from the tannin tree) liqueur are only some samples of the variety of flavor that you can try.

The dazzling sunset amidst jangadas and coconut trees is a perfect closing for a magical day. But the fun doesn't stop there. The night comes filled with promises of parties in which forro is king.

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Como Encher urn Biquini Selvagem The premiere was on 62 but this play written and directed by Miguel Falabella in its last revival continues to pack houses in Rio. Claudia Jimenez plays several characters adopting different accents in this monologue about life and psychotherapy.

Desejo - Eugene O'Neil play trans7 lated by Renato Beninatto, with Vera Fisher and Juca de Oliveira.

A Falecida - By Nelson Rodrigues. A classic Brazilian play directed by Gabriel Vilela with Maria Padilha and Marcelo Escorel. Padilha posed naked for Playboy to help finance the play.

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Querido Mundo - Written by Miguel Falabella and Maria Carmen Barbosa.

Directed by Miguel Falabella with Joana Fomm and Otavio Augusto.

Os Sete Brotinhos - Written and directed by Flavio Marinho with Cininha de Paula, Fernando Eiras, Anderson Muller and Marcelo Saback.

Troia - An adaptation of Euripides' The Trojans by Eduardo Wotzik and Fernand Schnoor. With Camila Amado and Clarice Niskier.

Valsa N° 6 - Written by Nelson Rodrigues, directed by Cristina Ribas, starring Maria Luiza Mendonca.

Vestido de Noiva - Nelson Rodrigues 'S play directed by Luiz Arthur Nunes with Malu Mader.

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American films just released: Cool Runnings (Jamaica Abaixo de Zero), Equinox (Equinox), The Pelican Brief (0 Dossie Pelicano), Extreme Justice (Justica Extrema), Honeymoon in Vegas (Lila de Mel a Tres), Short Cuts (Short Cuts - Cows c/a Vida), In the Name of the Father (Em Nome do Pal), Bad Lieutenant (Vicio Frenetico), Return of the Living Dead 3 (A Volta dos Mortos Vivos 3), Once Upon a Crime (Era uma Vez... Um Crime).

Farewell to my Concubine (A dens Mmnha Concubina)- China - Directed

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Les Nuits Fauves (Noites Felinas) France - Directed and starred by Cyril Collard. jean, 30. with AIDS falls in love with Laura. 17, after a life on the fast lane.

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Mui, 12. leaves her home in the interior of Vietnam in search of love and finds it.

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A Terceira Margem do Rio - Brazil Nelson Pereira dos Santos' four-yearson-the making film. Based in five short stories by great Guimar5es Rosa. A story of miracles used as an allegory of present Brazil.

Trois Couleurs: Bleu (A Liberdade E Az.u1) - France/Poland - By Krzysztof Kieslowski with Juliette Binoche. Inspired by the colors of the French flag and the French Revolution. A woman trying to forget her past.

1. Dossie Pelican° (Rocco) John Grisham A scandal involving oil and an ecological concern.

2. Xamd (Rocco) Noah Gordon A story with natural plants and drugs as used by Indians.

3. Uma Fortuna Perigosa (Siciliano) Ken Follet Spy thriller.

4. A Firma (Rocco) John Grishman The lawyer's story that became a Hollywood hit.

5. 0 Alquimista (Rocco) Paulo Coelho A man trying to find out the meaning of life.

Non-fiction 1. A Lista de Schindler (Record) Thomas Kennealy How a man save hundreds of Jews during the World War 2. 0 Sucesso Ndo Ocorre por Acaso (Objetiva) Lair Ribeiro The way to increase mental capacity and become richer in the process.

3. Prosperidade - Fazendo amizade com o dinheiro (Objetiva) Lair Ribeiro Learning how be friends with money and improving you bank account.

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3D BRAZIL Itching to know Brazil beyond the stereotypical plates being offered about the country? If you have a Macintosh and a CD-ROM, you are in luck. If you have a PC and a CDROM you'll be in luck very soon.

3D-ROM Multimedia, a Somerville. Massachusetts company formed by three Brazilians, has just released Brazil: An Exotic Journey, for the Mac. Combining movies (90 minutes of them), slides, animation, music and text, the CD allows you to travel throughout Brazil and stop as much as you want to know about its economy, geography, history, ecology. Price: 69.95. To order or to know more, call (617) 628-8973.

A unique opportunity for children to simultaneously leamPortuguese and English is being offered in Southern California through a state program.

It's the Portuguese Two-Way Immersion Program that starts in kindergarten and continues through sixth grade.

By fourth grade, instruction is half in English and half in Portuguese. The goal is to make these students bilingual and biliterate. Enrollment is open.

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TOUR AWARD ALAP, the Latin American Association of Advertising Agencies, will give awards to tourism and ecology pieces published or broadcast between May 1992 and May 1994. The promotion is part of the 7th Fiptur - International Festival of Tourism and Ecology Advertising - to be held from June 9 to 11 in Canela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Submissions in English, Spanish or Portuguese are to be sent to ALAP / Alvaro Chaves, 655 / Porto Alegre, RS / Brazil. To know more call (5511) 222-5222.

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FRIDAY

SATURDAY

7:00 pm - 10 pm -. Jesse ..

Pessoa, Brazilian harpist at La Petit Maison 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm - Musical Menu at Hotel Vila 7:30 pm - 12:00 am - Banda "R" at lpanema Grill 8:00 pm - 1:00 am - Brazilian

Band and Dance Showat Copacabana 8:30 pm 8.11:30 pm -Samba, Lambada, Capoeira, Malandro Show at Brazilian Tropicana 9:00 pm - 1:00 am - Cesar Sant'Ana with Popular Brazil-

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Live Brazilian Music at Marina Stage on Bayside

7:00 pm & 9:00 pm - Musical

Menu at Hotel Vila

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Jesse

7:30 pm - 12:00 am - Banda "R" and Samba Brazil Dance

Pessoa, Brazilian harpist at La Petit Maison

Show at lpanema Bar and Grill 8:00 pm - 1:00 am - Brazilian Dance Show at Copacabana 8:30 pm &11:30 pm -Samba, Lambada, Capoeira, Malandro Show at Brazilian Tropicana 9:00 pm - 1:00 am -Pagode at Miami Beach Pizza 10:30 pm - Rio Ecstasy! at Scala

7:30 pm - 12:00 am - Banda "R" at lpanema Grill 8:00 pm - 1:00 am - Brazilian

Band & Dance Show at Copacabana 9:00 pm-Samba Brazil Dance Show at lpanema Grill 8:30 pm - Samba, Lambada, Capoeira, Malandro Show at Brazilian Tropicana 9:00 pm - 1:00 am - Pedro Paulo sings Popular Brazilian Music at Miami Beach Pizza

ian Music at Miami Beach Pizza 9:00 pm - 2:00 am- Pagode at

Brazilian Delight 10:30 pm - Rio Ecstasy! at

Scala

EVERY MONDAY TV & RADIO BTN (Brazilian TV Network) - Daily news from

Brazil, talk shows and sports -11:00 pm -1:00am, DCI ch. 40, S. South ch. 51, Adelphia ch. 52, Gold Coast ch 99 Luqui Corporation -Jornal Bandeirantes, interviews, sports, Brazilian musical clips - 11:00 pm - 1:00 am, Dynamic ch. 20, S. South ch. 41, Gold Coast ch. 44, DCI ch 45 Brazilians Love Jazz -Every Sunday, 5.00 pm - 7:00 pm withGina Martelli- 93.4 - Love 94

WEDNESDAY

9:30 pm - 1:30 am - Erica Norimar & Brazilian Explosion at Mango's

7:00 pm & 9:00 pm -Musical

Menu at Hotel Vila 7:30 pm -12:00 am -Banda "R"at lpanema Grill

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THURSDAY

TUESDAY

7:00 pm & 9:00 pm - Musi7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Jesse Pessoa,the Brazilian harpist

at La Petit Maison 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm -Musical

Menu at Hotel Vila 7:30 pm -12:00 am -Banda

"R"at Ipanema Grill 9:30 pm - 1:30 am - Erica Norimar & Brazilian Explosion at Mango's

cal Menu at Hotel Vila 730 pm -1200 am - Banda ' "R" at lpanema Grill 8:00 pm - 1:00 am - Brazil-

ian Band and Dance Show at Copacabana 8:30 pm - Samba, Lambada, Capoeira, Malandro Show at Brazilian Tropicana 8:30 pm - Rio Ecstasy! at

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SITES & PHONES Brazilian Delight - 154 SE 1st Ave. - Downtown Miami (305) 374-0032 Brazilian Tropicana Restaurant - 410 N. Federal Hwy - Pompano Beach - (305) 781-1113 Copacabana - 3430 E. Atlantic BI.- Pompano Beach (305) 941-2751 Hotel Vila - 5959 SW 71st St. Miami Ipanema Grill - 1771 Coral Way - Coral Gables - (305) 285-4777 NEWS from BRAZIL-MAY 1994

La Petit Maison - 366 E. Palmetto Pk. Rd.-Boca Raton (407) 750-7483 Lombardi's Restaurant - Bayside Marketplace - Downtown Miami - (305) 381-9580 Mango's Tropical Café - 900 Ocean Dr. - Miami Beach (305) 673-4422 Miami Beach Pizza - 6954 Collins Ave. - Miami Beach (305) 866-8661 Scala Miami - 905 S. Bayshore Dr. - Miami - (305) 371-5604

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SUNDAY 1 For a special invitation from Mila Escola de Samba see Saturday 28.

5:00 pm -Banda Constelacaoat Zabumba

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RADIO & TV Sounds of Brazil -Every Thursday, 9.30 am - 11 am, KPFK, 90.7 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Hour - Every Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 am - 10 am, KXLU, 88.9 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Views of Brazil - Sundays 9 pm - Continental Cable - Ch. 28 Fridays 2pm - Century Cable - Channel 3 Mondays 8 pm - United Artists Cable - Channel 25

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THURSDAY 12

8:00 pm - Marilia & Marcelo at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello & Band at Vine St

8:00 pm -11:00 pm - Banda Sol e Mar at Zabumba 10:00 pm- Kleber Jorge & Trioat Bokaos -8689 Wilshire Blvd

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8:30 pm - 11:00 pm - Cinco de Mayo PartywithBanda Sole Mar at Zabumba 10:00 pm- Kleber Jorge & Trioat Bokaos - 8689 Wilshire Blvd

5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:30 pm - 1:00 - Lula & Afro Brazil at Zabumba 9:00 - Banda Constelagao & MILA at Café Da nssa

FRIDAY 6 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:30 pm - 1:00 - Marta Santos at Zabumba

SATURDAY 7 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:30 pm -2:00 am - Banda Sole Mar at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Mayuto Correa Jazz Band at Vine St.

SUNDAY 8 5:00 pm - Mother's Day Party with Lula & Afro Brazil at Zabumba

SATURDAY 14 8:00 pm - Katia Moraes at La Ve Lee 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian, Jazz Ensemble at Nyala 8:30 pm - 2:00 am - Banda Con stelaga oat Zabumba 8:00 pm - Mayuto Correa Jazz Band at Vine St.

SUNDAY 15 3:00 pm - Hugo & JoJoat Artesia Portuguese Hall - (310)854-0553 5:00 pm -Banda Constelagaoat Zabumba

TUESDAY 17 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm -Banda Ax Bra silat Zabumba

WEDNESDAY 18 8:00 pm - Marilia & Marcelo at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello & Band at Vine St.

THURSDAY 19 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Banda Sol e Mar at Zabumba 10:00 pm- Kleber Jorge & Trioat Bokaos -8689 Wilshire Blvd

FRIDAY 20 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm -Brazilian jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:30 pm - 1:00 - Lula & Afro Brazil at Zabumba

SATURDAY 21 8:00 pm - Ballet FolclOrico do Brasil at Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara -(310) 840-2794 8:00 pm - Katia Moraes at La ye Lee

TUESDAY 10 8:00 pm - Marta Santos at Zabumba

Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:00 pm - Mayuto Correa Jazz Band at Vine St 8:30 pm - 2:00 am - Banda Constelacaoat Zabumba

SUNDAY 22 5:00 pm -Banda Constelagaciat Zabumba

TUESDAY 24 8:00 pm - Marta Santos at Zabumba

WEDNESDAY 25 8:00 pm - Marilia & Marcelo at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello & Band at Vine St.

THURSDAY 26 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Banda Sol e Mar at Zabumba 10:00 pm- Kleber Jorge & Trioat Bokaos -8689 Wilshire Blvd

FRIDAY 27 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm -Brazilian jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:30 pm - 1:00 - Lula & Afro Brazil at Zabumba

SATURDAY 28 MILA (Mocidade lndependente de Los Angeles) invites everyone from the Southland to go with them to the Street Carnaval in San Francisco to be held today and tomorrow. Package includes transportation, hotel and costume. Call (310) 305-8387 or (714)542-9135.

8:00 pm - 11:00 am - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, at Nyala 8:00 pm - Mayuto Correa Jazz Band at Vine St 8:30 pm - 2:00 am- Banda Sole MaratZabumba

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SUNDAY 29

8:00 pm - Marilia & Marcelo at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello & Band at Vine Str.

5:00 pm -Banda Constelacaoat Zabumba

TUESDAY 31 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm -Banda Ax é Brasilat Zabumba

SITES AND PHONES Alice's - 1043 Westwood Blvd.

Westwood - (310) 208-3171 Amazon - 14649 Ventura 131. Sh. Oaks - (818) 986-7502 Atlas -3760 Wilshire Blvd.- Los Angeles - (213) 380-8400 Baked Potato - 3787 Calmenaa N. Hollywood - (818) 980-1615

Brazilian Music Center - 6226 Sin Monica BI. (213) 467-5715 46

Cafe Danssa -11533W. Pico Bl. West L.A.- (310) 305-8387 Catalina Bar & Grill - 1640 N. Calmenea Bl. (213) 466-2210 Coffee Em porium -4325 Glencon .-Marina-(310) 823-4446 Fais-Do-Do - 5257 W. Adams L.A. - (213) 932-9034

Grand Ave. Bar -Biltmore -506 S. Grand Av(213) 612-1595 Kale Kafka - 6069 W. Sunset BI -Hollywood - (213) 464-3938

La Ve Lee - 12514 Ventura Bl. Studio City - (818) 980-8158 Le Cafe - 14633 Ventura Bl. Sh. Oaks - (818) 986-2662

Tampico - Wilshire at 11th St. Santa Monica - (310) 451-1769 Truly Yours -18588 Ventura B1 - Tarzana - (818) 996-3131

Lunaria - 10351 Santa Monica 131.. - W. L.A. - (213)282-8870 Nucleus Nuance -7267 Melrose Ave. - (213) 939-8666 Nyala - 1076 S. Faifax Ave. L.A. - (213) 936-5918

Venice Bistro - 323 Ocean Ft Walk, Venice, (213) 392-3997 Vine Street - 1610 Vine St. Hollywood - (213) 463-4375 Waterfront Cafe -205 Ocean F. Walk.Venice-(310) 392-0322 Zabuni ha -10717 Venice Blvd

Pedro's Grill -1739N. Vermont, L.A. - (213) 660-9472

Culver City - (310) 841-6525 NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

6:00 pm - Jonathan Stone at Chambord 8:00 pm - Doug Gittins at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Renata Cordeiro & Carlinhos de Oliveira at Nino's 8:00 pm -Lisa Silva & Friendsat Aioli 9:00 pm Rio Show at Bahia Tropical

FRIDAY 27 6:00 pm - Carlinhos de Oliveira & guitar at Chambord 8:00 pm -Pedro Ferreira at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Lisa Silva & Mar os Silva at Aioli

FRIDAY 6 6:00 pm - Carlinhos de Oliveira & guitar at Chambord 8:00 pm - Marcos Silva at Bahia Restaurant

SATURDAY 7

SATURDAY 28

8:00 pm - Marcos Silva at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm -Viva Brasil at La Pena - 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley (510)849-2572 9:00 pm-Banda Constelacao & Ginga Brasil - (Miss Rainha da Bateria) at Bahia Tropical.

3:30 pm - Voz do Brasil at Ramp 8:00 pm - Marcos Silva at Bahia Restaurant 8 pm-2 am - MECA's Carnaval Samba Ball with Viva Brasil, Ginga Brasil, Fogo na Roupa, Escola Nova de Samba, Samba do Coracaoat Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth St.- San Francisco. (415) 826-1401 See ad at page 50.

9:00 pm - Meia Noite & The Midnight Drums at Bahia Tropical.

FRIDAY 13

THURSDAY 19

WEDNESDAY 11

6:00 pm - Carlinhos de Oliveira & guitar at Chambord 8:00 pm - Lisa Torres at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm -Viva Brasilat Red Lion, 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento (916)922-8041

6:00 pm - Doug Gittins, playing Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant 9:00 pm - Lisa Torres & Marcos Silva at Claremont Hotel's Terrace Bar - Ashby and Domingo Ayes., Oakland - (5 0) 843-3000

6:00 pm - Jonathan Stone at Chambord 8:00 pm - Doug Gittins at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Renata Cordeiro & Carlinhos de Oliveira at Nino's 9:00 pm - Pandemonium at Bahia Tropical

3:30 pm -Voz do Brasil at Ramp 8:00 pm - Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant 9:00 pm - Viva Brasil & Ginga Brasil -(Best sambista couple)at Bahia Tropical.

THURSDAY 12 6:00 pm - Jonathan Stone at Chambord 8:00 pm - Doug Gittins at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Renata Cordeiro & Carlinhos de Oliveira at Nino's

SATURDAY 14

SUNDAY 15 WEDNESDAY 18 6:00 pm - Doug Gittins, playing Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm -Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant

SITES & PHONES Alberto's - 736 W. Dana St.,

Cafe do Brasil . - 104 7th St -

Mtn View, (415) 968-3007 Aioli - 469 Bush Street San Francisco- (415)2490900 Ashkenaz - 1317 San Pablo Ave.-Berkeley (510) 525-5054 Bahia - 41 Franklin St. - S. Francisco (415) 626-3306 Bahia Trop. -1600 Market St.S.Franc. (415)861-8657 Brazil Cult. & Arts - 659 S. 22nd St. - (510) 215-8202

S. Francisco(415) 626-6432 Ca ribee Center -1408 Webster St. Oakland - (510) 523-3191

NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

Chambord - 152 Kearney St.

FRIDAY 20 6:00 pm - Carlinhos de Oliveira & guitar at Chambord 8:00 pm - Lisa Torres at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Viva Brasil & Ginga Brasil at Askenaz 8:00 pm -Lisa Silva & Friendsat Aioli 8:00 pm - Viva Brasil at Gordon Bierch -33 E. San Fernando - San

SATURDAY 29 11 am-7 pm - MECA's Carnaval Grand Parade & Free Festival.

See ad at page 50.

9:00 pm - Brazilian Carnaval NightwithBanda Constelacao& Ginga Brasil at Bahia Tropical

NEWS'13PAZIL IN

SAN FRANCISCO FOR ADS &THE REST, CALL:

S. Francisco (415) 434-3688 Nino's - 1916 Martin L. King

Jr., Berkeley (510) 845-9303 The Ramp -855 China Basin San Francisco (415) 621-2378 Yoshi' s -6030 Claremont Ave. Oakland (510) 652-9201)

Felipe Magalhdes

(415) 648-5966

Pager:

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6:00 pm - Jonathan Stone at Chambord 8:00 pm - Doug Gittins at Bahia Restaurant 8:00 pm - Renata Cordeiro & Carlinhos de Oliveira at Nino's 9:00 pm - Samba do Coragavo & IvsonwithGrupo Gosto at Bahia Tropical.

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6:00 pm - Doug Gittins, playing Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm -Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant

WEDNESDAY 25 6:00 pm - Doug Gittins, playing Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm -Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant

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WEDNESDAY 4

SATURDAY 21 9:00 pm - Lisa Silva with Voz do Brasil & Aquarela Dancers at Bahia Tropical.

8:00 pm -Pedro Ferreiraat Bahia Restaurant

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TUESDAY 3 7:00 pm -Ballet Folclorico do Brasil at University of San Francisco's Gill Theater

RADIO Canta, Brasil - Every Sunday, 600 pm - 8:00 pm - KKUP, 91.5 FM, with Xuxu, Maria Jose and David Heyman Agora Brasil - Every Saturday, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, KPFA, 94.0 FM with Elvira Cola and Eric Taller Tropicana Brasiliana - Every Friday, 8:00 - 9:00 pm, KUSF, 90.3 with Raimundo Franco, in English & Portug Brasileirinho - Every Wednesday, 9:30 pm, KZSC, 88.1 FM with Renato Frota

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9:00 pm -Brasileiros da America at Bahia Tropical

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calendar - may 94 - s. francisco

Los Angeles Area Yang (800) GO VARIG Vasp (310) 364-0160 Bakari Art Studio (213) 938-0523 Folk Creations (310) 693-2844 New Wing Arts & Gifts (818) 247-4790 Uniquely Brazil - Folk (818) 458-1474 Rio to Babylon (213) 653-4948 uto Repair Cosmo Auto Parts (213) 259-9818 Ban s Banco do Brasil (213) 688-2996 Catering Joy's Catering (310) 438-3415 Remi Vila Real (818) 280-0061 Clothes Lincoln Sports Apparel (310) 396-3359 Samba (310) 983-9190 Clubs & Associations Ciube Bras. da Calif.

(714) 857-6764 Consu ate Brazilian Consulate (213) 651-2664 Dentists Gilberto Henriques (213) 464-0524 Jose Carlos D. Polido (714) 642-0112 Events Promotion Brazilian Nites Prod.

(818) 760-4600 Pegasus Kids Parties (818) 508-8773 Taquinho Promotions (310) 281-6950 The Rio Thing (818) 753-4932 Food & Beverages Cantt & Associates (310) 827-9139 Hair Gigi's (310) 273-0851 Menage a Trois (310) 278-4430 111111111132=010 Homeopathy - Gobetti (310) 458-8020 Instruction Brasil Brasil Cult. Ctr (310) 397-3667 Brazilian Music Ctr. (213) 467-5715 Chess w/ Master Frank (310) 841-2025 Dance Classes - Rita (310) 842-9647 Modern Lang. Center (310) 839-8427 Vivian - Portuguese (213) 474-3020 48

Insurance State Farm - Gloria (310) 827-9003 Legal Aron Hasson (310) 475-4779 IMOMMIMINIM Bossa Nova - Georgia (818) 891-0912 Piano/Flute - Vera (310) 559-7347 Jazz - Richard Samuels (818) 798-5424 Match Maker Fogo e Pabdio (213) 467-6944 Money emittance Vigo-California (619) 479-VIGO Physician Nilson A. Santos (213) 483-3430 sychot erapy Elizabeth Almeida (310) 281-7536 Pu.hcabons News from Brazil (213) 255-4953 Restaurants Bossa Nova (310) 657-5070 Brazilian Tropical (714) 720-1522

By Brazil (310) 787-7520 Cafe Brasil (310) 837-8957 Lulu's Alibi (310) 479-6007 Pan Handler (714) 970-5826 Yolie's Brazilian Steak (714) 251-0722 Zabumba (310) 841-6525 rans ation nterp.

Brazilian Int. Affairs (310) 854-5881 Latitude Tr. & Interpr.

(310) 477-0210 Tocantins Communk.

(818) 343-4451 Verdiblue Tr. & Interp.

(213) 255-8062 Transport & Cargo Rapid° Delivery Service (213) 938-6433 rave gencies Around the World Trs (619) 722-4444 Avila Tours & Travel (909) 695-0630 Brazil Tours (818) 767-1200 Braz.-American Travel (310) 670-9347 Cheviot Hills Travel (310) 202-6264 Dynasty Tours (818) 845-5757 Ipanema Tours (800) 445-3343 South Star Tours (310) 416-1001 Southwinds (310) 568-8426 Vaneyde's - San Diego (619) 233-6514 Yes Brazil (310) 670-0734 Video ArtMedia (310) 478-2103 Zuruk Video (310) 450-0906

Miami Area Accountants pf&co - cpas (305) 444-8333 Airlines Transbrasil (800) 872-3153 \twig , (800) 468,2744 Vasp (800) 732-8277 Banks Banco do Brasil (305) 358-3586 Banco Banorte (305) 577-0472 Banco Boavista (305) 530-9057 Banco Nacional (305) 372-0100 Banco Real (305) 358-2433 Banespa (305) 358-9167 Cot es & S oes Rio Connection (305) 358-4543 C U.S ssociations ABFC -As. Bras. da Fur. (407) 354-5200 Cam. Corn. Brash- EUA (305) 579-9030 PARA - Paraenses As: (813) 842-3161 onsu ate Consulado do Brasil (305) 285-6200 Dentists Arnaldo Souza (305) 595-3238 Hirlimo de SA (305) 262-8212 xport & m port L&V Trade Corp.

(305) 374-0757 oo & Beverages All Braz. Imp. & Exp. (305) 523-8134 Via Brasil (305) 866-7718 Vigo Travel (305) 942-8446 Instruction Anglo Am. Schools (800) 683-ANGLO Sylvio's Drivg School (305) 865-7770 nsurance MONYMiami (305) 477-6669 Physicians Dr. Jorge Macedo (305) 271-7311 Dr. Mario Sanches (305) 541-7819 Dr. Neri Franzon (305) 772-4694 Printing Image Printing Center (305) 539-1438 u !cations Brazilian Courier (305) 377-1223 Florida Review (305) 374-5235 News from Brazil (305) 566-7467

Real Estate Integral Investments (305) 358-3655 Restaurants Brazilian Tropicana (305) 781-1113 Brazilian Delight (305) 374-0032 Brazilian Pie (305) 866-1001 Cheese Bread House (305) 443-5358 Guts Gala (305) 532-3636 MILMIZEIM Code 1 (305) 375-0396 U.S. Arms Corp (305) 371-6844 Trave gencies AUantictur (800) 535-0942 Brazilian Wave (305) 561-3788 BTB Tours (800) BRASIL-4 Discover Brazil Tours (800) 524-3666 Euroamerica (305) 358-3003 International Tours (800) 822-1318 Luma Travel (305) 374-8635 Monark Travel (305) 374-5855 New Port Tours (305) 372-5007 Venture Travel (305) 379-7678 Via Brasil Travel (305) 866-7580

New York New Jersey U'S ssocia ions Brazilian Ch. of Corn.

(212) 575-9030 Brazilian Corn. Bureau (212) 916-3200 Brazilian Trade Bur. (212) 224-6280 Consulate Brazilian Gen. Cons.

(212) 916-3200 Foo & Pro ucts Amazifinia (718) 204-1521 Coisa Nossa (201) 578-2673 Merchant Express (201) 589-5884 Pu • 'cations Brazilian Voice (201) 955-1137 Folha do Brasil (212) 869-7022 News from Brazil (718) 746-0169 Portugal-Brasil News (212) 228-2958 The Brasilians (212) 382-1630

111•=1EMENIII Brasilia (212) 869-9200 Brazil 2000 (212) 877-7730.

Brazilian Pavillon (212) 758-8129' Cabana Carioca (212) 581-8088,-, Indigo Blues .

(212) 221-003 k212) 243-494 F

Trave Agencies Barb Tour Service (201) 313-0996 Basbrasil (800) 422-2200 International Sunny (718) 699-2900 Mystical Destinations (718) 956-1630 Naseente Travel (718) 545-0608 Odyssea Travel Service (212) 826-3019 Santos Dumont Ink (212) 764-5680

San Francisco Bay Area Airlines yang (415) 986-5737 Vasp (800) 732-VASP Antiques Vila Antiga (415) 981-2617 Auto Repair Nelson Auto Repair (415) 673-6868 FMC Autobody Col. (510) 687-1900 Banks Banco do Brasil (415) 398-4814 Beauty Salon Bibbo (415) 421-BIBO Carmen's International @15)433-9441 Dalven Hair Design (415) 433-7646 Bike Repair West Bike (415) 241-9125 Clubs B.A.S.O. (415) 661-2788 Bay Area Brasilian Club (415) 334-0106 Computer Micronet (415) 665-1994 Consulate Brazilian Consulate (415) 981-8170 Costume Designer Alex Saporetti (415) 863-3651 Dental Care Roberto Sales, DDS (510) 451-8315 Electronics Mobile Auto Radio (510) 798-0711 Events Promotion Magia Promotions (415) 648-5966 Food Emporio Brasileiro (415) 742-9922 Instruction Brazil Culture & Arts (510) 428-0698 Portuguese - A Frame (510) 339-9289 Portuguese Lang. Serv.

(415) 587-4990

Money Remittance Via Brasil (415) 673-0262 Music & Dance Aquarela (510) 548-1310 Cilia Malheiros (415) 664-5481 Ginga Brasil (510) 428-0698 Marcos Santos/Climat (415) 585-8312 Voz do Brazil (415) 586-2276 Musical Instruments Do Brazil - Imports (415) 252-8865 Photographer Andre Cypriano (415) 661-7675 Printing M. C. Printing (5 I 0) 268-8967 Publications Brazil Today (510) 223-5190 News from Brazil (415) 648-5966 Restaurants Bahia Brazilian Rest.

(415) 626-3306 Café do Brasil (415) 626-6432 Cafe Mardi Gras (415) 864-6788 Canto do Brasil (415) 626-8727 Chambord (415) 434-3688 Eunice's Braz. Cuisine (415) 821-4600 Golden City Pizza (415) 864-1411 Little Rio (415) 441-3344 Michelangelo Café (415) 986-4058 Moz. di Barak' Pizzeria (415)346-9888 Nino's (510) 845-9303 Papa's (415) 292-7272 Translation E. Faust (415) 731-3387 Port. Lang. Services (415) 587-4990 Transportation Wings Express (415) 974-6094 Travel Agencies 1 Stop Travel (510) 482-2500 F,clitours (415) 788-3348 Fiesta Travel (415) 986-1134 Rio Roma (415) 921-3353 Santini Tours (510) 843-2363 Savoir Travel (408) 246-3617 Sugar Loaf (415) 863-6212 Top of the Hill (415) 756-1400 Travel Americas (415) 434-0404 Tucanos Travel (415) 454-9961 Wings (800) 760-6090 Winship Travel (415) 863-2717

NEWS from BRAZIL-MAY 1994

Now at Beverly Hills

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Free consultation

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Mais: fitas cassete, Chocolates - Sonho de Valsa, Garoto, Serenata de Amor

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Parade begins at 24th and Bryant Streets in San Francisco's Mission District. A massive PARADE with FLOATS, COSTUMED DANCERS, BATERiA, ESCOLAS and over 200 contingents.

Parade Seating Available: $15/Reserved FOR INFO CALL MECA: (415) 826-1401

FREE FESTIVAL SAT. MAY 28 •11AM-7PM SUN. MAY 29 •11AM-7PM HARRISON STREET BETWEEN 16TH & 22ND, SF FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT, EXHIBITS, CRAFTS & MUCH MORE. JOIN IN THE FUN AT SAN FRANCISCO'S LARGEST OUTDOOR PARTY.

TICKETS FOR CARNAVAL SAMBA BALL & GRAND PARADE SEATING AVAILABLE AT BASS/TICKETMASTER OUTLETS, (510) 762-BASS, OR THROUGH MECA, (415) 826-1401.

NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1994

GUIA DE LAZER E.U.A.

FILMES EM CARTAZ ATRAOES PARQUES DE DIVERSAO ENDEREcOS OTEIS INFORMAOES OTEIS MINI-DICIONARIO NEWS from BRAZIL GUIDE - MAY 1994

USA ENTERTAINMENT

GUIDE

CURRENT FILMS ATTRACTIONS THEME PARKS USEFUL ADDRESSES USEFUL INFORMATION MINI-DICTIONARY

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A corrente eletrica é 110 volts e os plugs sao chatos e nao redondos como no Brasil.

0 prep para se enviar uma carta dentro dos Estados Unidos é 290.

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NEWS from BRAZIL GUIDE - MAY 1994

Born dia Good morning Como vai? How are you?

Bern, obrigado Well, thank you 0i, old, tudo bem?

Hi, Hello, Hey Embora em Tchau Bye, alguns loc,ais na Goodbye California, todo Ate logo See you mundo parece soon falar o Espanhol, Como voce se a lingua oficial chama? What's dos Estados your name?

Unidos continua Me charno... My sendo o name is...

Ern contraste corn Frazer Pleased to a informalidade meet you brasileira que usa Certo Right o primeiro nome Por favor Please da pessoa, os Obrigado Thank americanos sao you, thanks mais reservados e De nada You're gostam de ser welcome, donY tratados por Mr., mention it Mrs., ou Ms. Que born! Good, Smith (ou great qualquer que seja Saigle To your O sobrenome) no health primeiro contato.

Corn licenca No hotel voce ira Excuse-me ouvir as .Desculpe-me I'm expressoes good sorry morning, good Eu quero I want afternoon e good Como se chama evening. Nos ruas, isto? What do you entretanto, 56 o call this?

•good morning •Como se diz...? uma expressao How do you comm. Depois say...? do meio-dia muito mais Lugares comum se ouvir Onde d...? hi, hello, how you Where is the... doing.

Onde 6 que ha um (uma)...? where is Saudacoes e there a...? palavras Weis o aeroporto Sim Yes ...airport NI) No ... a banca de Talvez Perhaps jornal ...newstand Ontem Yesterday o banco ...bank Hoje Today , o banheiro Amanita ...bathroom, men's Tomorrow room ou ladies' Sempre Always MOM Nunca Never o barbeiro Mais More ...hair salon, hair Menos Less dresser Primeiro First ... a bilheteria Ultimo Last ...ticket office What time is it? ... a boate ...night Otte horas scio?

Urn pouco de ingles

NEWS from BRAZIL GUIDE - MAY 1994

. club o correio ...post office o consulado ...consulate ... a delegacia ...police station ... a estacao do metro ...subway station o hospital ...hospital o hotel ...hotel ... a igreja ...church ... a lanchonete ...snack bar ... a lavanderia ...laundry, laundromat ... a loja ...store ... a praia ...beach o ponto de onibus ...bus stop o post° de gasolina ...gas ou service station o restaurante ...restaurant ... a rodoviatia ...bus station o saldo de beleza ...beauty salon o shopping center ...shopping mall o supermercado ...supermarket o telefone publico ...public phone Comprando Estou s6 olhando I'm just looking around Olhando vitrine Window shopping Quanto custa...?

How much is...?

Gostaria de comprar... I'd like to buy..

Onde posso comprar... Where can I buy...? ...algo mais barato ...something less expensive aspirina ...aspirine

...calcas esporte ...slacks ...caneta ...pen ...canoes postais ...postcards ... um chapeu ...a hat ...cigarro ...cigarettes ...uma entrada para... a ticket for... ...film .. film ...um lugar reservado ...a reserved seat ...luvaS ...gloves ...meias ...stocking papal e envelopes ...paper and envelopes ... pasta de dente ...toothpaste roupa de baixo ...undenvear ...remedio ...medicine ...sabonete ...soap uma saia ... a skirt ...uma sacola ...a bag ...sapatos ...shoes ...um vestido ...a dress Hotel e rest au ran te Tenho uma reserva I have a reservation Gostaria de fazer uma reserva I'd like to make a reservation Urn quarto de solteiro A single room Um quarto de casal A double room Gostaria de ver o quarto I'd like to see the room , Gerente Manager Garcon Waiter Almoco Lunch Café da manha Breakfast NA° foi isso que pedi I didn I' order this A especialidade da casa The house

specialty Bern passado Well done Ao ponto Mediumi Mal passado Rare A conta, por favor The bill (the check), please Cash Dinheiro Change Troco Aceita cartao de credito? Do you accept credit cards?

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Nameros Zero Zero Urn One Dois Two Tres Three Quatro Four Cinco Five Seis Six Sete Seven Oito Eight Nove Nine Dez Ten Onze Eleven Doze Twelve Treze Thirteen

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May brings the sweet smell of spring as well as a bumper crop of films for all viewing appetites.

We'll start off with the Oscar winners now in general release;

Maio traz consigo o doce aroma da primavera bem como urn farts safra de filmes para todos os apetites.

Comecaremos corn os vencedores do Oscar, que estao em exibicao nacional:

Schindler's List **** Steven Spielberg's masterpiece brings the horrendous story. of the holocaust to the screen. A reflection of the past brought into today's focus. (Winner 7 academy awards) Piano **** New Zealand director Jane Campion brings Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin (Academy Award winners) to new heights in her own screenplay (Oscar winner) in a fiery and turbulent love story played against the primitive landscape of 19th century new Zealand.

Philadelphia *** 1/2 Tom Hanks (Oscar winner) gives his all in his performance as a 'AIDS' stricken lawyer fighting the powers that be with an able assist by Denzel Washington. A sensitive gutsy story.

In the Name of the Father **** Irish director Jim Sheridan brings a father and son story into the political arena with his hard hitting polemic dealing with the I.R.A and the English justice system. With Daniel Day Lewis the film had seven Academy Award nominations which they richly deserved. , The Fugitive **** Director Andrew Davis is in top form with this exciting thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Harrison Ford chased by Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar winner) in this cat and mouse tale of an innocent convicted man going for the real killer just one step ahead of the law.

Schindlees List **** A obra prima de Steven Spielberg traz para a tela a horripilante historia do Holocausto. Uma reflexio do passado apresentada a luz dos dias atuais. (Vencedor de sete Oscars) Piano **** A diretora neozelandesa Jane Campion leva Holly Hunter e Anna Paquin (vencedoras de urn Oscar) a novas alturas coin roteiro proprio (vencedor de um Oscar) em histeria de amor turbulent° na Nova Zelandia primitiva do seculo XIX. Philadelphia *** 1/2 Tom Hanks (vencedor de urn Oscar) em uma esplendida interpretacdo como advogado corn AIDS lutando contra o establishment, coin assistencia apta de Denzel Washington.

In the Name of the Father **** Diretor irlandes Jim Sheridan traz a historia de urn pai e de urn filho a arena politica, corn este filme altamente polemic° abordando o I.R.A. e sistema ingles de justica. Corn Daniel Day Lewis o filme obteve sete indicacoes ao Oscar, mencOes todas altamente merecidas.

The Fugitive **** 0 diretor Andrew Davis esta em perfeita forma neste thriller que mantem o pnblico tenso.

Harrison Ford e cacado par Tommy Lee Jones (vencedor de urn Oscar) nesta histeria em que urn inocente declarado culpado procura o verdadeiro assassino urn passo a frente da lei.

For the comic touch in general release:

Algumas da comedias em exibiceo nacional:

1V*. Doubtfire *** Rcibin Williams amid dotnestic chaos becomes his children's nanny to be close to them despite his marital difficulties. His comic turn as a mrs. displays his enonnous bag oritricks which will bring the sound of laughter from all who see the film.

Friur Weddings and a Funeral *** British director Mike Ne,well (Enchanted April) is at his bestt in this witty menantic comedy which meves at a fast pace as Hugh Grant pursues Andie McDowell from one wedding after another to its delightful surprise ending. A stylish romp is this latest import from Great Britain.

Naked Gun 33 1/2 The Final Insult ** For those who like pure unadulterated prat fall humour this fits the bill.

This is the third in the series starring Frank Neilsen and Phyllis Presley.

Gbarding Tess *** Shirley MacLaine spars with Nicolas Cage. She a presidential widow, he a seeret agent protecting her frCsm harm in this light comedy with a surprise ending.

Jimmy Hollywood *** Barry Levinson (Rain A4m,Ditter) chooses the H011ywood scene with Joe Pesci portraying a Hollywood hopeful with stars in his eyes and lead Millis feet trying to make Ain tinsel town. Victoria Abril and Christian Slater support his dream as he ditsolves into fantasy land.

A'wry look at the capricious state of movieland and its inhabitants.

I'll Do Anything *** Another Hollywood view With Nick Nolte and Albert Brooks skewering the fine line between reality and the here and new is a perceptive and fiirmy story of La La Land directed by James Brooks who tells it as it is.

The paper *** Going to press deadline in s kinetic story of a New

Mrs. Doubtfire *** Robin Williams torna-se a baba de seus preprios filhos para estar perto deles apesar de suas dificuldades conjugais.

Sua atuacao é mais uma prova de imensa versatilidade que ira encher os cinemas corn o som das gargalhadas.

Four Weddings and a Funeral *** Diretor britanico Mike Newell (Enchanted April) nunca esteve melhor que nesta inteligente comedia romantica ondeHugh Grant atormenta Andie McDowell ate o deliciosamente surpreendente final. Filme importado da Gra Bretanha.

Naked Gun 33 1/2 The Final Insult ** Para aqueles que apreciam humor do tipo torta na cara sent qualquer desculpa este 6 o filme perfeito. Terceiro da serie corn Frank Neilsen e Phyllis Presley.

Guarding Tess *** Shirley MacLaine vive as tunas corn Nicolas Cage..Ela, tuna viava presidencial, ele urn agente secreto. Uma comedia leve corn urn final surpresa.

Jimmy Hollywood *** Barry Levinson (Rain Mati,Diner) escolhe o ambiente de Hollywood corn Joe Pesci vivendo homem sonhando corn sucesso em Hollywood, mas corn pas de chumbo. Victoria Abril e Christian Slater dao tuna forca a seu sonho.Um olhar distorcido sobre o capricho em que vive a terra do cinema e seus habitantes.

I'll Do Anything *** Uma outra visao de Hollywood corn Nick Nolte e Albert Brooks tentando distinguir o que realidade o que eaqui e agora. Historia divertida de L. A. de James Brooks, que (la nome aos bois.

The paper *** Ha urn dinamismo de redacao de jomal diario

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York tabloid brings top performances from Michael Keaton, and a fuse ensemble cast that includes Glen Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall directed by Ron Howard which is fast paced entertainment that satisfies.

neste historia movimentada de um tabloide novaiorquino.

Michael Keaton, divide as honras de interpretacao corn Glen Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid e Robert Duvall. Ron Howard dirige esta fita de passo acelerado que satisfaz..

On a more serious turn we recomend:

Alguns filmes serios que recomendamos:

House of Spirits *** Despite differences of opinion review wise this is a faithful rendition of Isabelle Allende's enchanting novel. With an excellent cast of film greats Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glen Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, and Vanessa Redgrave whose individual application of their art enhances the roles they play under the direction of Bille August (Best Intentions) the film covers the political history of Allende's native country while playing out a romantic allegory. More detail would have been welcome for those who haven't read the book, now they can do just that.

Belle Epoque *** (selected theatres) Oscar winner this year Fernando Trueba's film brings us back to 1932.

In spain on the eve of the birth of their republic, the romantic appeal of four sisters sends the senses whirling for a young army deserter.

Charming and reflective is this tare of love and pursuit.

Sirens *** (selected theatres) From Australia director John Duigan brings a sexy romp to light.

When a man of the cloth (Hugh Grant) and his wife visit a free wheeling artist (Sam Wanamaker) who paints with abandon as his models cavort on the rustic turf in the 1920's.

There is more than meets the eye in this romantic frolic.

House of Spirits *** As criticas diferen mas esta é uma representacao fiel da novela de Isabelle Allende. Corn um elenco maravilhoso de grandes interpretes como Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glen Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, e Vanessa Redgrave cubo empenho particular valoriza o papel que eles representam. Sob a direcao de Bille August (Best Intentions) o filme cobre a historia politica da terra natal de Allende enquanto apresenta uma alegoria romantica.

Agueles que nao leram o livro agradeceriam se houvesse maiores detalhes. Agora é urn boa ocasirlo para a leitura.

Belle Epoque *** (selected theatres) 0 Mine de Fernando Tnieba que venceu o Oscar transporta-nos a 1932. Na Espanha, as vesperas da um jovem desertor atrai quatro irmas e coloca os sentidos nuns turbilhao.

Cativante e provocadora de pensamentos esta historia de amor e procura.

Sirens *** (selected theatres) 0 diretor John Duigan da Australia produz uma travessura sexy quando um ministro religioso (Hugh Grant) e sua mulher visitam uiss artista muito liberal (Sam Wanamaker) que pinta cons desenvoltura enquanto suas modelos saracoteam na relva rural no anos 20. Ha uin tesouro oculto nesta diversao romantica.

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Farewell My Concubine **** (selected theatres) An Oscar nominee this Chen Kaige directed film stars Leslie Chueng and Gong Li in complicated roles depicting the rivalry both dramatically and personally pursued by them while performing during the fifty years that transpires as performers in the chinese opera. A film of epic proportions.

Bitter Moon *** (selected theatres) Roman Polanski's descent into a couple's private hell is portrayed with great intensity by Peter Coyote and Emanuelle Seigner, their attention and vitriolic •action focused on a young British couple Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas while on a luxury cruise liner.

Obsessive and masochistic is the name of this game as they stroll their troubled waters.

Threesome; ** (general release) College dormitory roomates two guys and a gal is an exploration of friendship, sex orientation and high jinks when Lara Flynn Boyle, Josh Charles, and Stephen Baldwin go through their paces in this sometimes fumy, sometimes not, sometimes poignant and sometimes not. Written and directed by Andrew Fleming.

Red Rock West *** (selected theatres) Lara Flynn Boyle and Nicolas Cage star in this "cowboy. noir" Sleeper. It was a hit on the festival circuit. Now in full bloom in its theatrical release. • Case of mistaken identity is the theme when a drifter is mistaken for a hit man. A small budget film with a big following.

Monkey Trouble **. 1/2 (general release) A family film that adults can enjoy too.

Cute kids, cute monkey, Harvey Keitel and a likable cast directed

by Franco Amurri come through with an entertaining light comedy.

Farewell MyConcubine **** (selected theatres) Indicado corn Oscar este crime do diretor Chen Kaige estrela Leslie Chueng e Gong Li em papeis complicados retratando a rivalidade e entre ambos enquanto interpreta na Opera Chinesa durante os 50 anos que se passam .

Um filme de proporcoes epicas.

Bitter Moon *** (selected theatres) 0 mergulho de Roman Polanski's no inferno privado de urn casal retratado par Peter Coyote e Emanuelle Seigner coin atencao e acao vitriolica concentrada no jovem casal Hugh Grant e Kristin Scott Thomas enquanto fazem sins cruzeiro ens sins navio de luxo. Ha masoquismo e obsessao em abundancia nas Aguas turbulentas.

Threesome; ** (general release) Sobre dois rapazes e uma moca colegas de dormitorio de faculdade, fala de amizade, orientacao sexual e folia quando Lara Flynn Boyle, Josh Charles, e Stephen Baldwin demonstram o que podem fazer nesta historia as vezes divertida e comovente.

Roteiro e direcao de Andrew Fleming.

Red Rock West *** (selected theatres) Lara Flynn Boyle e Nicolas Cage estrelam neste ."cowboy noir"que se tomou sucesso :inesperado no circuito. de festivais. Agora corn ampla distribuicao. Caso de identidade equivocada quando vagabundo é confundido corn assassin°.

Monkey Trouble 1/2 (general release) Um filme para a familia que agrada tambem o adult°. Criancas e macaco que so uma gracinha, Harvey Keitel e um elenco simpatico dirigido por Franco Amurri nos , traZeni uma comedia leve e divertida.

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Mesmo agueles que nunca visitaram a cidade parecem ter "deixado seu coracao em San Francisco", como diz a cancao.

Alguns de seus pontos mais pitorescos se converteram em paisagens de sonho do imaginario coletivo. Bondinho, Golden Gate, Chinatown, Fishermen's Wharf sat) alguns dos nomes que povoam os guias turisticos da fantasia. Os leitores exigentes da revista Conde Nast Traveler escolheram San Francisco como sua cidade preferida no mundo inteiro.

San Francisco é mais que alguns nomes de monumentos on bairros. A cidade, a urn tempo cosmopolita e interiorana, tolerante e culturalmente abastada, fervilha corn memorias: a corrida do ouro do velho Oeste, os pescadores italianos, os missionarios espanhois e memorias mais proximas como as flower children e o "verao do amor" dos anos 60.

O terremoto de 7.1 em 1989, os incendios nas colinas da vizinha Oakland, a pilhagem por parte de &guns logo apos o veredito absolvendo os policiais que espancaram Rodney King, tudo isso foi incapaz de empanar ma reputacao.

1873 -O bondinho comeca a correr.

1906 - Terremoto de 8.3 pontos e incendios destroem grande parte da cidade.

1936 - Inauguracao da Bay Bridge.

1937 - Abertura da Golden Gate Bridge.

1963 - Fechamento da prisao de Alcatraz 1968 - 0 vera'o do amor traz hippies, revolucao sexual, drogas, e o movimento da livre expressao de pensamento.

1974 - Metro, mais conhecido como BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) é inaugurado.

1989 - Urn terremoto de 7.1 pontos atinge a cidade.

Algumas datas 1595 - Apos urn naufragio ao norte do Golden Gate, o capita() espanhol Sebastian Semen° chama a area de Puerto de San Francisco e reclama a terra para a Espanha.

1806 - California se toma provincia do Mexico.

1846 - A bandeira americana é icada na praca Portsmouth.

1848 - Comeca a Corrida do Ouro.

Clima Temperatura raramente é superior a 21° C (70° F) ou inferior a 5° C (40°).

Durante o verao (julho a setembro) chuva e rara mas o fog é uma ocorrencia diaria pela manha e ao final da tarde.

Informacao Disque 391-2001 or 391-2002 a qualquer hora do dia ou da noite para ouvir uma gravacao corn os eventos principais do dia. Para ouvir a gravacao em espanhol ligue para 391-2122.

No Visitor Information Center (Hallidie Plaza, 3912000) guias poliglotas the darao infonnacOes e mapas da cidade. No International Visitors Center (312 Sutter St. - 4' andar - 9861388) um grupo de voluntarios da infonnacoes e oferece a chance de voce passar urn dia ou uma noite na casa de um dos membros do grupo..4fi.

Transporte 0 Aeroporto Nacional de San Francisco fica a 22 km do centro da cidade. 0 preco do taxi ate San

Francisco é em torno de $25. Mas ha varias outras altemativas de transporte.

Apesar de suns 40 colinas, San Francisco é um convite para se andar a pe. Quase todos os pontos pitorescos estao a uma distancia confortavel para o andarilho amador. Se precisar de transporte coletivo, nao esquente, a cidade possui tun excelente servico de Onibus e metro, conhecido como MUNI (Municipal Railway).

Por $6 voce pode adquirir um passe que lhe dO direito a usar, por um dia inteiro, qualquer urn dos tens, Onibus e bondes da rede pablica de transporte.

0 preco do Onibus e 850 corn direito a dois transfers gratuitos para outras linhas. Voce precisa pagar a quantia exata ao motorista quando sobe no onibus, pela porta da frente. Os chamados cable cars custam $2.

Taxis podem ser parados facihnente nas runs fora das horas de rush. Na hora de pico, o melhor C ir ate urn dos grandes hoteis ou chamar algumas das companhias de taxi, como a Yellow Cab (626-2345) on a Allied Taxi Service (826-9494). A godeta cOstumeira 6 15%.

PubHeavies San Francisco possui dois diarios de grande circulacito, o San Francisco Examiner e o San Francisco Chronicle, que podem ser comprados em news racks espalhados pela cidade on em bancas de jomais e revistas.

ATFtACCOES Alcatraz Celebmda em filmes, a prisao federal da ilha de Alcatraz (pelican° em Espanhol) contou entre seus hospedes nada menos que Al

Capone. Os prisioneiros se referiam ao local como The Rock.

Fechada desde 1963, Alcatraz e hoje uma atracao turistica concorrida. 0 barco para a ilha leva 90 minutos e sai do Pier 41 no Fihsennan's Wharf.

Berkeley A 25 minutos de San Francisco por metro.

Sede da Universidade da CalifOmia, é o berg() da revolucao estudantil e do movimento da livre expressao de pensamento dos MOS 60.

Bondinhos (Cable Cars) Um monument° move! de San Francisco, os bondinhos estiveram fora de comissfio por quase dois anos mas estab de volta coin todo seu encanto e mido de sinos. Eles sao urn modo de transporte na cidade desde 1873. Passear de cable car é uma atracao obrigatoria.

HO tres linhas. A mais popular, por suns vistas e curvas, é a Powell-Hyde, Mutter° 60. Seu pont° inicial é na interseccao da ruas Powell e Market.

Funciona das 10 da manila as 6 da tarde, todos os dias.

Chinatown A Chinatown do filme de Roman Polanski é em Los Angeles, mas esta e mais famosa. Tratase da maior comuniciade chinesa fora da Asia, corn 70 mil habitantes. Na interseccao da Grant Avenue e California Street. Exuberante, colorida, cheia de aromas e surpresas para todos os bolsos.

Fisherman's Wharf Comecon como o centro pesqueiro da cidade. Hoje conhecido por sum butiques de roupas e de souvenirs. Tome o

bondinho na Powell Street. 0 local possui restaurantes sofisticados mas hO tambem barracas de pescados e fmtos do mar a precos convidativos. Veja as maravillias que arquitetos inspirados podem fazer transformando duas velhas fabricas em lugares da moda. A primeira a Ghirardelli, uma fabrica de chocolate do seculo XIX e a segunda, The Cannery, uma exfObrica de enlatados.

Golden Gate Bridge A mais celebre das pontes penseis do mundo. Um vista maravilhosa da baia quando nab ha fog.

Tome o onibus Golden Gate Bus Transit na esquina da Market Street e da 7th Street north.

Golden Gate Park Tome o Onibus niimero 7 na Market Street. Um parque enonne coin varias atracOes irtcluindo o Japanese Tea Garden e o Botanical Garden.

No Music Concourse realizam-se concertos gratuitos de rock, geralmente nas tardes de domingo. Se quiser conhecer o parque inteiro, alugue uma bicicleta on patins na Stanyan Street na altura dos numeros 600 a 800.

Haight Ashbury Bairro em que nasceu o movimento hippie.

Os hippies desapareceram mas o local ainda festivo, colorido e florido. 0 trecho mais interessante da bastante longa Haight Street flea entre a Masonic Street e o Golden Gate Park.

North Beach Foi aqui que se originou a "Beat

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Generation" c o local foi ' preservado.

Intelectuais de cabelos brancos que comecaram tudo ainda continuam vivendo la. 0 bairro é famoso por sua movimentada vida noturna. Regitio foi tomada tambem por tuna serie de clubes dedicados ao strip tease para todos os sexos.

Pier 39

Considerado brega pelos sanfranciscanos, o local atrai uma multidtio de turistas para suas centenas de lojas e restaurantes e uma pequena area de diverstlo. Fica dois quarteirOes a leste

do Fisherman's Wharf.

The San Francisco Experience No Pier 39.

Apresentacdo visual sobre a cidade de San Francisco, seu passado e seu presente. Show de quase meia hora é apresesentado em sete telas gigantes e coin 35 alto-falantes.

Reviva o terremoto de 1906, e participe da celebracao do Ano Novo Chines.

Mais de 3 mil slides.

Union Square

Centro de San Francisco.

Movimentacdo desde o nascer do sol.

Grande concentracAo de restaurtuites e hoteis na area.

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco

Rose Bowl in Pasadena, L.A.

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Em Los Angeles, ao caminhar por ruas e bairros, voce vai sentir muitas vezes que esta em um pals de lingua espanhola.

Em argurnas areas, a Unica lingua que se fala e remente o Espanhol, graeas a tuna enonne populacao de imigrantes sobretudo do Mexico, El Salvador e Guatemala. Alem disso, a California ja foi parte da Espanha e mais tarde do Mexico. Dal todos esse nomes latinos: Santa Monica, Las Palmas, Los Feliz, La Mirada, La Brea, La Cienega...

Foi em 1769 que o entao explorador espanhol Gaspar de Partola descobriu urn pequeno lugarejo habitado por indios, a que chamou de Porciuncula e que mais tarde seria denominado Pueblo de Nuestra Seilora la Reim de los Angeles de Porciuncula.

A segunda major cidade dos Estados Unidos em populacao (8 milhoes de habitantes seotindo o cells° de 1985), superada apenas por Nova Yorque, e tambem segunda em extens6o (1,200 km') logo apOs Jacksonville na Florida, no é mais a terra de amplos espacos e opotunidades do Velho Oeste. Mesmo assim migraines e imigrantes do mundo intetro continuarn chegando a cidade pelas mesmas raz6es do passado: procura de oportunidade, busca de liberdade, fuga da opressao, miseria ou intolerancia.

A grande chance da cidade aconteceu no inicio do seculo, quando os pioneiros da indfistria do cinema se transferiram de Nova Torque para Hollywood, escolhendo a area coino a locactio perfeita para seus

filmes.

Apenas algumas horas de carro separam . as praias quente do Pacifico das pistas de gelo das Sierras.

Los Angeles sofreu alguns golpes duros A sua imagem de terra do sonho e do farniente. Sua reputacao de terra de gangues foi mostrada ao niundo inteiro, quando partes da cidade eclodiram em turbas amotinadas que puseram fogo em prechos e saquearam supennercados e lojas.

Incendios e terremotos serviram para acentuar ainda mais a aventura que é gozar do clima sempre ameno e sem chuvas do oeste americano. 0 smog da area é tambem famoso, embora inedidas antipoluicao tenham ajudado a limpar mais os ares a cada ano que passa.

Ate 1957 o medo de terremotos fez corn que as construcOes nao ultrapassassem os 46 metros que é a altura da prefeitura local. Hoje em dia, algumas areas como o centro da cidade possuem edificios de mais de 60 andares.

A cidade nab possui um sinal distintivo como lima Torrre Eiffel, um Pao de Aenear, tuna Estatua da Liberdade ou uma ponte Golden Gate.

Sells monumentos sao obras utilitarias como as freeways que recortam a cidade ou obras de entretenimento como os fihnes de Hollywood.

Um de seus muitos desafetos novaiorquinos, Woody Allen assim se referiu a L.A. em Annie Hall: "Ntlo quern viver em ulna cidade onde a Unica vantagem cultural é que voce pode dobrar a direita quando o farol esta vennelho."

0 teatrologo Neil Simon, que ja viveu na cidade, assim se referiu a ela:

"Quando a temperatura e 40° em Nova Torque, e 27° em L.A..

Quando e abaixo de zero em Nova Torque, é 27 grans em L.A..

Naturalmente ha 11 milhOes de pessoas interessantes em Nova Torque e apenas 27 em L.A." (A citacao original era em graus Fahrenheit o que aumentava o nfunero de angelinos interessantes para pouco menos de 80.)

Transportation

Entre os cliches sabre Los Angeles, urn continua sendo muito verdadeiro.

Sem urn carro, é praticamente impossivel se locomover nesse emaranhado de bairros e cidades (95 comunidades diferentes) que se esparramam por mais de 60 Ion. Los Angeles nao tern mais que runa linha raquitica de metro, um punhado de linhas de onibus confortaveis mas que circulam coin intervalos excniciantemente longos, e taxis sO se conseguem em grandes hot& ou polo telefone.

Ao usar os mais de 1.100 kin. de fireways que L.A. oferece, lembre-se que o limite maxim° nesLas vias de guano, cinco, sets pistas, apesar de serem urn convite a alta velOcidade, e 55 milhas per hora (88 Nas rims e avenidas a velocidade maxima cam geralmente para 35 milhas (56 km.) ou mesmo 25 (40 kin.) nas proximidades de escolas.

Informacks

L.A. Convention & Visitors Bureau centro na cidade 685 S. Figueroa St.

- (213) 689-8822 Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau 171 S. Los Robles, Pasadena (818) 795-9311 Eventos Uma hotline multilingrie - mas nAo Portugues infonna 24 horas sobre tudo o que esta acontecendo na cidade.

(213) 689-8822 Ingressos gratis Audiences Unlimited - (818) 506-0043 - fomece ingressos gratuitos para a gravacAo de varios shows de TV. Tours L.A. Tours Sightseeing oferece excursoes curtas e longas por toda a regiao. Guias falam Portugues.

(213) 937-3361 Publicacoes Los Angeles Times Tiragem diaria de mais de um milliao de exemplares.

SecAo Calendar (principalmente a de domingo) traz um roteiro completo de entretenimento na regiao. Encontrado em newsracks espalhadas por toda a cidade. 0 jomal oferece tours gratuitas de suas instalacoes. 202 W. 1st St. (Times Mirror Square), Los Angeles - (213) 237-5000.

La Opinion - Diario em espanhol LA. Weekly Semanario rechonchudo distribuido todas as quintas-feiras gratuitamente por toda a cidade em bibliotecas, lojas e restaurantes. Seu calendario de eventos prossegue por paginas sem fun. Era uma folha altemativa de esquerda bem mais radical, ate 1993.

LA. Reader - Outro semanario gratis, corn materias

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interessantes e urn razoavel calendario.

Daily Variety - Para aqueles que querem acompanhar, e diariamente, (menos sabados e domingos) hid° o que ocorre na indastria do cinema.

- 1400 N. Calmenga Blvd., Hollywood (213) 857-6600 The Hollywood Reporter - Outro diario da indastria de Hollywood. Um pouco menos famoso que seu prim° Varie0). - 6715 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood - (213) 464-7411 PARQUES DE DIVERSAO Disneylandia - 1313 S. Harbor Blvd., Anaheim - (213) 626-8605 ou (714) 999-4000. A 40 km. do centro de Los Angeles. Foi aqui que tudo come9ou em 1959 por Walt Disney, muito antes de a Disneyworld e a EPCOT na Florida terem sido idealizadas. "0 lugar mais feliz do mundo" como diz a propaganda é composto de seis reinos: Adventureland, New Orleans Square, Bear Country, Frontierland, Fantasyland, e Tomorrowland. A mais nova area do parque é a Mickey 's Toontown. No palco de Videopolis esta agora em cartaz o Desfile Real de Aladim, em que é recriada, 6 imagem do filme, a entrada triunfal de Aladim em Agrabah. Aberto diariamente. De seounda 6 sexta: das 10bda manila as 6 da tarde. Aos sabados e domingos: das 9 da manhA a meia-noite.

Ingresso, corn direito a participar de todas as atracoes: $30.

Criancas de 3 a 11 anos: $24. Tome a rodovia I-5 na dire* sul. Saia na Harbor Blvd.

Knott's Berry Farm - 8039 Beach Blvd.,

Buena Park - (714) 220-5200 - Muito mais antigo que a Disneylandia, esse parque comecou em 1934 quando a Sra. Knott abriu os portAes de sua fazenda para o public°. Hoje em dia, o parque possui quase 200 atracoes diferentes espalhadas em cinco areas principals: a Old West Ghost Town (Cidade Fantasma do Velho Oeste), a Fiesta Village, a Roaring Twenties que traz de volta os tempos do Chaleston, o Aeroporto da Knott's, e o Camp Snoopy, corn o famoso beagle de Shulz. Aberto diariamente das 9 da manila ate a meianoite. Ingresso: $25,95; criancas de 3 a 11: $15.95.

Raging Waters - 111 Raging Water Dr., San Dimas - (714) 592-8181. A 35 km. a oeste de Los Angeles esse parque aquatic° possui 40 salva-vidas de plantao para garantir a 'seguranca dos frequentadores de suas ininnera atracoes. Criancas coin menos de oito anos podem se divertir no chamado Splash Palace.

Aberto diariamente das 10 da manta' as 9 da noite.

Six Flags Magic Mountain - Magic Mountain Parkway, Valencia - (805$ 2554111. A 60 km de

Los Angeles. Entre as mais de 100 atracoes esta o Colossus, a mais alta e mais assustadora montanha russa do mundo construida em madeira. S6 para aqueles corn um coracao em bom estado e urn grande desejo de emocoes fortes. Na Animal Farm, as criancas podem tocar os animais, e no Bugs Bunny World, as atracAes adultas sao repetidas em dose infantil: Aberto diariamente do final de maio ate o inicio de seternbro. Horas variam. Ingresso: $27. Criancas corn menos de 1,20 in.: $15.

Universal Studios 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City - (818) 777-3750.

Jurassic Park, inspirado no filme de mesmo nome de Steven Spielberg é a Ultima atracao desse local que realmente urn parque inns proporciona muita diversiio para a familia inteira.

Outras atmcoes ja consagradas incluem a Back to the Future - The Ride, King Kong, Terremoto e a classica abertura do mar Vermelho que aparece no filme Os Dez Afandamentos.

Aberto todos os dias das 9 da manhA As 4 da tarde. Ingresso: $29,95. Idosos coin mais de 65 e criancas corn menos de 11 pagam $23,95.

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