Brazil Singles: AS TOURISTS STAY AWAY, RIO COMBATS CRIME TO WOO THEM BACK
Four hours after Richard Nash stepped off the plane from New York, a mugger grabbed him by the neck and took his wallet. While the 66-year-old contractor struggled with the mugger's choke hold, another of the three assailants threw Maria Nash, 63, to the pavement near their beach-front hotel. It was the first day of a month-long tour -- their "first and last" visit to Brazil, Nash said.Two days later, a pair of Argentine tourists were picked up by police...
Brazil Singles: VERMONT COMMEMORATIVE WILL CARRY NEW RATE
Vermont's statehood bicentennial will be noted by a commemorative stamp to be issued March 1 in Bennington, the city where Vermont ratified the Constitution. The stamp will be multicolored and picture a farmhouse. The stamp will be in the new first-class rate. On May 9, two Love stamps will be issued in Honolulu. They will be in the new first-class rates for 1 ounce and 2 ounces. The stamps picture a heart-shaped Earth.Additional details will be announced later.Club...
Brazil Singles: ILLEGAL ABORTIONS RAMPANT IN LATIN AMERICA
Monica Maureira remembers how--as the nurses interrogated her and the doctors lectured her--she watched her hands going transparent from the blood loss.She was 16 years old and was hemorrhaging after having had a clandestine abortion in Chile, a country where abortion is illegal and considered immoral."I remember the nurses telling me that if I didn't give them the name of the doctor who gave me the abortion, they would let me bleed to death,"...
Brazil Singles: Tennis
ATP: Brasil Open At Costa do Sauipe, Brazil Singles First Round Albert Montanes, Spain, d. Mariano Zabaleta (5), Argentina, 6-4, 6-1. Filippo Volandri, Italy, d. Felix Mantilla (6), Spain, 6-2, 6-2. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo, Spain, d. Harel Levy, Israel, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Gaston Gaudio (7), Argentina, d. Ricardo Mello, Brazil, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles First Round Martin Garcia and Sebastian Prieto (3), Argentina, d. Oscar Hernandez, Spain, and Luis Horna, Peru, 6-4,...
