Jim Brooke, in Foreign Policy (Fall 1981), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale, N.Y 1 1737.
With 119 million people, Brazil is the fifth-largest nation on earth. It has the world's eighth-largest gross national product ($200 billion, up 100 percent since 1970) and ranks as the sixth-largest weapons exporter ($1 billion in 1980), selling light tanks and small missiles. Its modern factories churn out computers for China and turboprop planes for the Ivory Coast. According to Brooke, a Washington Post correspondent,...