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...think of is the pilot may have beenoff course and did not know his location," saidDave Strickland, owner of the airport's sky-divingoperation Airborne Adventures. "We know he had amap out, because that was found in his lap at thecrash scene...
...matted green jungles of Brazil's primitive Amazon valley territory of Amapá sits a surprising little town. With its broad, paved streets, ranch-style houses, well-stocked supermarket and air-conditioned club, it looks more like a suburb of New York or Los Angeles than a settlement in the wilderness. It is the town of Serra do Navio (pop. 2,200), and it is run by a company that has become a Latin American model of profitable cooperation between local and foreign capital...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...
...twelve bases (see map,p. 90) are at Amapá, Belém, Sao Luiz, Camocim, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Maceió, Bahia. Seven are land ports, five sea. (Pan Am is still negotiating for another land base at Bahia.) At each project, 500 to 800 men are at work...
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