European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 Brasilia got the but the beaches stay put by Alan Riding new York times it was 25 years ago that Rio de Janeiro was cruelly stripped of its title and left to live off its Grace and yet a secret yearning to be Bra zils capital lives on while government decisions now emanate from the modernistic Plains of Brasilia and the econ omy is moved by the Industrial might of Sao Rio do Janeiro still claims to the real heart and mind of the Rio continues to be the intellectual and cultural Cen Ter of said Darcy Deputy governor of Rio do Janeiro Rio is the Home of it is the Home where people it is the Rome of in political the City boasts that it is a trend in a nationwide Campaign to press for direct presidential elections last for the biggest dem with More than a million took there is a sense of a lifelong resident con recalling that the former capital first became a state and was then downgraded to a but once a you never lose your Rio is still where people want to its where the big decisions Are other brazilians see things stereo typing As the cites natives Are As soccer and Beac Loving hedonists who View life through a prism of Leisure and pleasure rather than of hard work and Carioca know How to have a Good it is but they Are not this Carioca is the work of envious Paulista those from Sao Paulo who never could accept Rio de Janeiro greater the people that Paulista see on our beaches on weekdays Are other Ribeiro Carioca Are at a recent poll provided useful of people Only 16 percent said they went to the Beach on weekends and just 13 percent said soccer was their favorite As for their Liberal 84 percent opposed the use of All 69 percent favored the death penalty and 39 percent believed unfaithful wives should be in 21 years of military which ended on March Rio de Janeiro survived As the country cultural capital largely because most composers and singers prefer to live in its Beautiful and relaxed even if Many Are not themselves native Cario there Are other reason As the former the City has Many of the country principal museums and although most Are desperately Short of re brazils two main television corporations also have Headquarters in Rio de providing work for Many designers and but most of Rio de Janeiro jealously guards its reputation As the country intellectual Only for do intellectuals gather unabashedly As a clan they live near each they Are All friends or enemies to a Man or their Politi Cal views Are last in Rio but nowhere else in intellectuals gathered Over a Buffet dinner and drinks to express their communal support for Tancredo the opposition Leader who was elected president but died on april 21 without assuming and the same group met again to pay homage to president Daniel Ortega Saavedra of who came Here after attending the new brazilian governments inauguration March the return of civilian Rule May threaten Rio de Janeiro cultural a new Rio de Janeiro famous Copacabana up photo ministry of culture has been and its first Deci Sion was to move the state movie and other culture related offices of the Federal govern ment from Rio de Janeiro to one Carioca who just joined the ministry said with in going to spend my life on the have a Nice americans May but on a sunny weekend in Rio de the parting phrase is Good and no matter How much Carioca deny the cites famous beaches Ipa Nema and Leblon among them have an irresistible a slim body and deep Tan Are but More than anything the beaches Are social gathering with different stretches of Sand drawing different groups with such precision that friends and acquaintances can always be High the Young and Gays and surfers All have their but this which ended weeks the social Harmony of Ipa Nema was disrupted by a new bus which for the first time brought poor families directly from the cites overcrowded Northern slums and neighbourhoods and poured them onto the beaches of the More affluent South this egalitarian gesture by the states left leaning Leonel was received with undisguised they bring All their children and food and make an awful one Beach regular announcing that he and his friends would Start meeting on a Beach reachable Only by but the new Beach crowd was its Marvel said Rogerio a 30yearold House Painter from the Distant suburb of Bova the bus stops right on the but the invaders also sensed they were i May be but in not Siqueira am i banned from the Beach just because in poor in not going to Stop coming just because these dummies think in in brazils Foury Earold economic crisis has broken social demarcation lines on More than the cites above have proliferated to the Point that the Broad mosaic sidewalks of Copacabana Are now crowded at night by sleeping families of Street some equipped with mattresses and Gas say they prefer their rent free Corners to life in the slums of the North others improvise tents each evening on the grass that divides the Avenue run Ning along Ipa Nema younger Street kids simply sleep on the for this new Arizola is again blamed by who remember that previous state authorities forcibly removed beggars from tourist by is accused without Evi Dence of encouraging immigration to Rio de Janeiro by the in Marcel the appointed by has instituted his own operation beggar although this involves rounding up vagrants to feed them and give them a roof for the several Hundred have also been moved to a Model farm about an hour from the where they Are taught Basic agricultural skills and can grow their own the latest move is still More ambitious to persuade beggars to return to their Home Many of them Miles away in the Northeast of were not exporting said Pedro a municipal but rather giving people a Chance to return to their