Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder of millions of human beings. After statements like Castro's it is harder still. Extraordinary acts of murder slip by us, easing past our dulled sensibilities. Millions have died in Cambodia, as, it seems, will millions more. Persistent reports confirm that the Brazilian government is massacring the Amazon Indians to permit exploitation of the Brazilian hinterland. How can we describe these atrocities, how can we summon up the will to intervene, as the U.N. says we have the right to do, if "genocide" is just another lame figure in international parlance...
...richest man in America risks his fortune in the Amazon, opening an untamed area...
...scene is jarringly surrealistic. For thousands of square miles, there is nothing but the endless green of the Amazon rain forest, forbidding, primeval, untamed. Then, on a remote bend of the Jari River, a fast-flowing tributary, the vista changes dramatically. There, as tall as a 16-story building, stands a monument to modern engineering: a brand-new, spanking-white pulp plant, which reaches out with ducts, cables and conveyor belts to a wood-chipping mill, a chemical factory and a power generating facility...
...Amazon is so wild that Ludwig was obliged to become a one-man development program. In the past twelve years, his Jari Forestry and Agricultural Enterprises has invested some $780 million, of which $520 million came directly from Ludwig's resources. He has carved from the rain forest four towns (the largest of which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area...
Reports TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief George Russell, who visited the project: "Ludwig's efforts in the Amazon are capitalism in its most epic sense. But he has wisely insisted on 'Brazilianizing' Jari: only 40 of the 8,500-member labor force are non-Brazilian. He has drawn university graduates from the country's south, illiterate laborers from Brazil's economically stricken northeast, and equally unfortunate natives from the Amazon's primitive villages. Ludwig's managers at Jari claim with pride that they have created a true meritocracy with instant opportunities...