| Description | Folder of presscuttings, commercial documents, telex reports and correspondence relating to the Brazilian engineering firm Mendes Junior and its contract to build the 55-kilometre rail line from Baghdad to Hussaiba as well as sections of Iraqi motorway. Items include an exchange of telexes (June 1990) about Mendes' motorway contract, several reports relating to their bid for the railway contract as well as articles on Brazilian food and weapons exports to Iraq, articles from MEED (1977-81) on this and other rail contracts, a large glossy Mendes Junior company brochure and handwritten notes by Crusoe. |