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travel
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May '99
After two weeks of polluted "praia" and nose pinching,
divers have repaired a broken sewage pipeline off the shore of Rio de
Janeiro. The pipeline that pumps sewage past Rio's world renowned Ipanema
and Copacabana beaches burst recently and tons of raw sewage chased away
the thousands of visitors. The waste transformed the ocean along the South
Zone into a darkened and defiled waste land. Beach-goers are advised to
avoid the South Zone until the pollution subsides.
7 April '99
The Dalai Lama was welcomed to Brazil recently by religious, political
and pop fans. To begin his second visit to Brazil since the 1992 conference
on the environment, the samba superstars Gilberto Gil and Elba Ramalho
performed a special concert for the Buddhist monk on Monday night in Curitiba.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who has pressed China for autonomy
but not formal independence for Tibet, will spend 4 days speaking at seminars,
and publicly meeting with religious figures, politicians and artists.
Chosen at age five as the reincarnation of Tibet's god-king, the Dalai
Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent approach to
ending the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Apart from attending the concerts,
movie premieres and flower-bearing processions staged in his honor, the
Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak in Brasilia to Congress. He is optimistic
about negotiations with China.
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