Brazil

WASHINGTON -- The Brazilian players walked out of the locker room slowly in a single line. Few of them spoke.They had gone from the best of times to the worst of times in a span of nearly two hours.Forward Jurgen Klinsmann's goal in injury time completed a three-goal second-half rally by Germany as the Germans tied Brazil, 3-3, in a U.S. Cup '93 game yesterday.Several thousand fans from the crowd of 34,737 had started to leave RFK Stadium yesterday before Klinsmann headed in the )) goal.Regulation time had expired and the game was about one minute into injury time (extra time allotted for injury timeouts at the end of each half)

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. -- That rush of warm air felt around the Los Angeles area yesterday was not another high pressure system adding to the heat wave, but the collective exhaling of the U.S. World Cup team after learning it had advanced to the second round of the tournament.After losing to Romania on Sunday and placing third in Group A, the U.S. players had to wait while a plethora of possibilities played themselves out before they could be sure that their 1-1-1 record would send them through to the round of 16. The team knew by mid-morning that it had made it, after the Mexico-Italy and Norway-Ireland games had ended in ties.

Headlines across the world shout about Brazil's new "leftist" president. But Luis Inacio Lula da Silva won a landslide victory in Latin America's largest economy by blurring traditional ideological boundaries and forming a broad-based, nationalist coalition of Brazilians ready to take on U.S. economic priorities and global financial institutions. Da Silva's success is a clear demonstration of the changing face of Latin American politics. The traditional struggle between conservatives, backed almost unanimously by business and financial leaders, against socialists or populists supported by the working class is giving way to a new conflict.

Money!''I looked up at the man in the aisle hunkering close to me. His dark face was nervous and full of purpose. I was being robbed again by Rio's world-famous urban bandits! This time on the 472 bus at seven in the morning.''Money for mafia! I have pistol, give money!''There was something plaintive about the request, something that reminded me of the sincere guys my age who ride the subways back in the U.S., collecting funds for a brother's surgery or for college tuition. I imagined him under the thumb of his mafia, like the street kids in San Salvador I'd read about who get sodomized if they don't steal two watches a day.He lifted out of my wallet the showy wad of cruzeiros that totaled around $13.His menacing backup rang for the next stop.

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A chastened President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, forced into a runoff after a disappointing performance in the general election, won a landslide victory yesterday to a second term as leader of Latin America's largest nation. With 99 percent of the votes counted, official tallies showed the leftist incumbent with 61 percent of the vote, compared with 39 percent for his challenger, former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin of the centrist Brazilian Social Democracy Party.

MIAMI -- The administration of Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be the most closely watched to date as a case of whether Latin American democracies can combat socioeconomic injustice and simultaneously pursue global competitiveness. Financial markets have accelerated downward ever since opinion polls reported that Mr. da Silva was pulling significantly ahead of the other candidates in Sunday's election. Investors, already wary that Brazil's growing debt burden could lead to a default similar to neighboring Argentina's, took no solace in Mr. da Silva's attacks on banks and currency market traders as perpetrators of "economic terrorism" and his promise to perform "major surgery" on South America's largest economy.

INVESTORS WHO have squeezed all they can out of domestic stocks might want to throw some of their winnings into the international market.Financial experts advise that a portion of every portfolio should contain some international stocks. And Joseph C. Williams has just the country investors should consider. It isn't Japan, Germany or the United Kingdom, but Brazil.Williams is director of emerging markets for Batterymarch Financial Management Inc., the Boston-based subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc. He's responsible for a team of six employees who manage about $1.3 billion in assets for Batterymarch, which Legg Mason acquired in January 1995.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Feminists, health-care providers and government-sector unions in Brazil yesterday attacked a court ruling that abruptly ended abortion on demand in cases where it is known a fetus is developing with grave abnormalities. Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal, the country's highest court, voted 7-4 Wednesday to end the practice, which had been permitted in Brazil since July. The debate on the issue was so contentious that two justices challenged each other to step outside the courtroom for a fight.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- With taxes and permit requirements hurting sales at home, Brazilian handgun manufacturers are increasing exports, making their country the leading foreign supplier of handguns to the United States."

Sea-Land Service Inc. has added Baltimore as a port of call on the service to South America that it provides jointly with Transroll, a Brazilian steamship line.When the two lines began the service to Brazil in November, the vessels called on two U.S. ports, Elizabeth, N.J., and Jacksonville, Fla.Baltimore was officially added to the service this week with the arrival Monday night of the Gallant at Seagirt Marine Terminal. The ship unloaded 41 containers and four rail cars.Two weeks earlier, another ship on the joint service called at Baltimore as part of a trial run. That visit apparently went well enough for the lines to add Baltimore as a regular port of call.