JANUARY 96

CONTENTS:

8

Cover Story

Musical return to the 60s

16

Amazon:

The surveillance scandal

18

Kidnapping:

Any one can be a victim

21

Economy:

Who can live with these prices?

23

Book:

Getúlio Vargas's diary

24

Fad:

Teen's confessions

29

Poetry

João Cabral de Melo Neto's "Vida e Morte Severina" - In Portuguese

35

Profile:

Yankee Samba School

37

Travel:

Rio Grande do Sul unveiled

40

Opinion:

America earns low marks

54

Special:

Crisscrossing the Brazils - American writer tells about his trip accross Brazil

DEPARTMENTS:

Rapidinhas (p. 6)

Letters (p. 14)

Brazilian Notas - A column on musical releases in the US(p. 45)

Best-seller books, plays & movies (p. 46)

Por aí (p. 47)

Classifieds (p. 49)

U.S.A. Calendar (p. 50)

That's Brazilian (p. 52)

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