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Show The Salt Lake Tribune r September Wednesday, All 12, 1984 Revised History Shows Brazilian Liberator as a Hot Lover - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Dom Pedro I, the emperor who liberated Brazil from Portuguese colonial rule in 1822, is being presented to his modern-da- y countrymen in a radically new historical light as a tempestuous macho lover. The emperor has returned to public prominence as the central figure of a spicy TV series based on his sexual escapades. The Brazilian National Archives has prepared a popular version of Pedros love letters to his mistress, the Marquise of Santos, marking this years 150th anniversary of his death. Modern historical research seeks to do away with myths and make the past more understandable to average people," archivist Emanuel Araujo, who edited the imperial love notes, said in an interview. Pedro was a real person, full of passion, jealousy and genuine human emotion, and thats how he should be depicted to the Brazilian public not as some sort of statue. The monarch, known as Dom Pedro from the of title for royalty, was prince-regecolonial Brazil under his father, King Joao VI of Portugal. Pedro, as every schoolchild here learns, rebelled with the famous cry Independence or Death, and became the Independent nations first emperor. However, historical records show that while Dom Pedro I was carrying out his mission as a liberator, he also was engaged in a wild affair with Domitila de Castro Canto e Mello, the Marquise of Santos, with whom he had five illegitimate children, while married to Empress Leopoldina, the mother of his seven legitimate offspring. The whole steamy story is being retold in a television series, The elaborately produced prime-tim- e Marquise of Santos, on TV Manchete, a commercial network. Billboards promoting the show proclaim: "This, is the history they didnt teach you in school. t, "Its a great combination, politics and sex," Rubens Furtado, the network's general director, told The Associated Press. Dom Pedro was quite a guy. He led Brazil to independence, fought a war against Argentina and at the same time chased everything that went by ir. skirts." Araujo of the National Archive was asked if the portrayal wasnt disrespectful to Brazils national image. "Brazilians are perhaps more realistic than some of their neighbors, he replied, referring to the respect other South American nations hold for liberators Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin. "Of course, Dom Pedro I was an important figure, but theres no reason to create an unreal image of him. Besides, he added, at the time, everybody knew what was going on between the emperor and the Marquise of Santos." Pedro's love notes to the marquise are exceedingly frank. Many contain obscene phrases and graphic refer M Missile Strikes Tanker in Persian Gulf 7-W- ences to the couple's bedroom workouts. The emperor often signed them with intimate nicknames such as Big Demon" and "Hot Fire " One of the less racy letters, dated Oct. 12, 1827, said: My darling. As I cannot rip out my heart to send to you, take these two hairs from my moustache which I just . pulled out and am enclosing Dom Pedro once asked the marquise to destroy the correspondence, for fear his enemies would use the letters agaihst him, Araujo said. Fortunately, for the good of history, she refused The letters ultimately made their way to private and museum collections here and abroad. In contrast to Pedro I, little is known publicly here about the intimate life of his son. But Pedro II was a popular monarch and is widely credited with the development of Brazil as a modern nation. Crisis Ends eek Herut Party Approves Of Joint Government MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) An oilladen supertanker in the Persian Gulf was struck Tuesday by a rocket that the captain said was a g of the kind Iraq obExocet missile tained from France. Capt. Tadeusz Gapinski of the rian-registered St. Tobias said his crew escaped injuryIn Baghdad, a military spokesman said Iraq attacked two naval targets south of Kharg on Tuesday, but Gamarine salpinski and Bahrain-base- d vage executives said the St. Tobias was the only ship they knew to be hit. St. Gapinski said the 250,000-to- n Tobias was limping southward under its own power to the port of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, for repairs before continuing on to Japan. In a radio interview with The Associated Press, Gapinski said the missile was an Exocet and that the remnants of the missile with French markings are still on the TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) The secIsraels two major political parties on Tuesday approved the agreement for a bipartisan government, signaling an end to the coungovernment crisis. trys seven-wee- k The Herut Party of outgoing Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir accepted the pact that was approved Monday coaliby its opponent and soon-to-b- e v tion partner Shimon Peress Labor fjr u, Party. That clears the way for Peres sr to present a national unity" Cabinet to Parliament for formal approval Wednesday. W'Parliament was expected to ap' : 4 f ,, . 4 '4f y 'i y the accord, ending weeks of poprove . i '' 'y, litical uncertainty after inconclusive :uv elections on July 23 left both big par,, 4 74. 4ti-v' , .V;' ties too weak to stitch together a rul' 7$ 7374- 77f if'UJ ing coalition without the other. 4 Senior Partner Herut is the senior partner in the Likud bloc. Shamir beat back a challenge to his ''k-authority from former Defense Mina t ister Ariel Sharon, who appealed a vote approving Herut Cabinet members, including Sharon v s S is as industry and trade minister. Assocloted Press Loserphoto Sharon said the vote should have look hull. can than broken two more weeks since the at Storms have Its been only secret. An uproar ensued, and been Mont Louis sank near Belgium, but divers a rescue of radioactive cargo. prevented the meeting was adjourned. Shamir and Peres were to meet once more to iron out the last problem future policy on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and to sign the joint government accord. Press for Concessions In a surprisingly tough speech attacking the Labor Party, Sharon The main concern of failing to reWind bed, Drenth added, but it is unclear OSTEND, Belgium (AP) trieve the full containers is that the urged Shamir to press for more whether that would help or hinder the and waves in the North Sea kept concessions from Peres in a uranium hexafluoride could form an divers from determining Tuesday recovery effort. acid gas if it leaks out of the barrels. joint policy on settlements. whether 30 containers of radioactive The Mont Louis, carrying the conWe will not go into a unity govern The gas could then raise the waters material have drifted out of a sunken tainers to the Soviet Union to be proand acidity and further broken temperature EuroWest hull, in use the company for later cessed salvage ships hamper salvage operations. officials said. pean power plants, sank 12 miles off The French Atomic Energy Comthe Belgian coast after colliding with A gap of 12 feet has developed bea passenger ferry Aug. 25. mission, however, said a leakage was tween the fore and aft sections of the highly improbable and that sea water French freighter Mont Louis, which Officials of the Belgian governsank last month and was torn apart ment and the salvage company met would dilute the radioactivity to a harmless level even if there is a leak. winds waves and by Tuesday to discuss ways of coping MEXICO CITY (AP) The govlate Monday, said Henk Drenth of the with the new situation, said Marc The containers, of steel ernment plans this week to start Dutch salvage company Smit Tak Inof an inch thick and weighing 15 tons Claus, nautical director of the pilot ternational. He said the hull broke service in thE North Sea port. burying tons of steel that was accieach, are made to withstand violent divers earlier where a at dentally contaminated with radioacshocks and heavy pressure, the compoint apart The 'most important thing now is made a hole to retrieve the barrels of tivity and now sits in an open field mission said. Claus the weather that improves, near Ciudad Juarez. Opponents say radioactive uranium hexafluoride. said. In Paris, Haroun Tazieff, French the Tuesdisposal site is too close to the weather stormy of Worsening secretary state for the prevention Falling Apart from city. divers goof major natural and technological day again prevented Greenpeace, the international conThousands of tons of the metal at ing down to the wreck, Drenth said. servation and environmental group risks, dismissed Greenpeace warntwo foundries were contaminated by exan Could Roll Onto Seabed cause could that ings leakage monitoring the recovery attempts, radioactive cobalt in a piece of scrap Now that the hull has come apart, said the ship was falling apart and plosion. metal. The steel awaiting burial here radioacno is the was There never and there containers the holding sinking deeper Into the sand shoal on been distributed all over northhad tive material could roll onto the seawhich it rests. danger of explosion, he said. ern Mexico and in 16 U.S. states be heat-seekin- ws Libe- n .'Mu1.-'?- a ' ond of 4 r --if A' 7 ship-to-sho- J Jt. fh , ' . ship. We were fully loaded when hit, he said. Our destination is Japan. He said the missile struck the tankers starboard side when they were 50 miles south of Kharg, Irans main crude oil shipping terminal in the northeastern sector of the gulf. ii-j-'i w show-of-han- e Wfyo'r 1 According to the London-baseLloyds shipping intelligence unit, the St. Tobias was the 42nd vessel to be damaged in the gulf since Iraq imposed a blockade on Kharg Island and other Iranian ports in February. Iraq, which has mounted most of the attacks, has been at war for four years. The Iraqis said on Monday their jet fighters had rocketed an unidentified naval target in the same location south of Kharg. But this was never independently confirmed by marine shipping and salvage agencies along the gulf Iraq last year acquired five Super Etendards from France along with an unspecified quantity of Exocets. Sources, who spoke on condition they were not identified, said Iraq has obtained about 200 Exocets from France since last October. Iraq said when it clamped a sea and air blockade on Kharg in February that its aim was to throttle the Iranian economy by impeding oil experts. Iraqi jets have raided foreign tankers and bulk carriers near Kharg. "There will be some serious developments in the coming days, as far as the Kharg blockade is concerned, Iraqs minister of culture and information, Latif Nsayyef Jassem, told a news conference in Baghdad on Mond Storm Keeps Divers From Tracking Radioactive Cargo at Sunken Ship - 20-fo- - last-minu- te 70-m- two-thir- day. ment if settlements cannot be established in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, he said, referring to the biblical names for the heartland of the West Bank. "If these problems are not resolved, it may take another day. There is no reason to hurry. There is no need to present the government tomorrow. We must not give up on any principle," he said. Peres has said Labor will use its veto in the Cabinet to block or delay the construction of new settlements, which it believes will impose more burdens on peace talks. Ousted in 83 Sharon was ousted as defense minister in February 1983 after an investigating panel found him partly re- sponsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians near Beirut in September. Peres drew sharp criticism from his party for his decision to give in and permit Sharon to take a Cabinet post. In a fiery speech to Herut, Shamir called for a cease-fir- e with Labor and a national effort to rebuild Isra, els sinking economy. But Shamir made it clear the two partners in the joint government were still divided on how to reach . peace with Jordan. Wants Return of Territories The territories of the land of Israel will not be the subject of bargaining and there will be no fore jn sovereignty there, he said, drawing applause. Labor has advocated a retufn of some territories in exchange for peace and Peres told his Labor Party Monday that Labor would not compromise on its stand. Mexico to Begin the Disposal Of Tons of Radioactive Steel fore the contamination was ered. discov- Roberto Trevino, head of the Mexican Nuclear Safety Commission, said people living in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, have nothing to fear since the burial site will be completely, definitely, without any doubt safe. Businessmen said the site, 20 miles south of the city, is in the path of future expansion for Ciudad Juarez and would keep industry from locating in that area. Soviet Block Troops Start Maneuvers The Soviet news agency Tass and its counterparts in East Germany and Hungary, ADN and MTI, reported that the war games began Tues- PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) Troops from six Warsaw Pact nations Tuesday started their fall maneuvers in Czechoslovakia, after a field exercises, week of smaller-scal- e according to official reports. The maneuvers, day. 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