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Back in Littlehampton, Anita's mother introduced her to another veteran of the trail -- a tall, thin 26-year-old Scotsman who had worked his way around the world (mining in Africa, canoeing in the Amazon, sheep farming in Australia) but really wanted to be a poet. To hear Anita tell it, she was concerned with more down-to-earth matters. "I wanted to have children and needed some sympathetic sperm," she says. "What I didn't anticipate was that I would fall in love with my sperm donor...
...South America large areas of the Amazon Basin have been reserved for the exclusive use of Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Venezuelan Indians. The rights of tribes to conduct their own affairs, form their own councils and receive royalties for mining activities on Indian lands are gradually being recognized...
...sudden upheaval, which lasted a week and virtually shut down the country, < shocked the European and mixed-race elites that have ruled Ecuador for centuries -- but it also produced results. Last May, then President Rodrigo Borja agreed to hand over legal title to more than 2.5 million acres of Amazon land to 109 communities of Quichua, Achuar and Shiwiar peoples in the eastern province of Pastaza...
...believe in our capacity to organize, not in the government's goodwill," says Valerio Grefa, leader of the Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Similar sentiments have stirred tribes from Mexico to Chile and have even inspired some armed guerrilla movements that make the struggle for Indian rights part of their ideology. After initial anger and confusion, governments have begun to respond. In Peru, Amazonian Indians have reclaimed 5 million acres of traditional lands, using $1.3 million in assistance from Denmark. Colombia's 60 Indian tribes have won title to more than 2.5 million acres...
...Brazil, with 240,000 Indians in a population of 146 million, the government last year set aside 37,450 sq. mi. for 9,500 Yanomami, a fragile Amazon tribe whose way of life had been virtually destroyed by migratory gold miners. In the past 2 1/2 years, Brasilia has created 131 reserves covering 120,000 sq. mi. in 19 states that are home to 100,000 Indians. It is a beginning -- but it does not come close to ending the threat to the tribes, whose lands are frequently invaded by aggressive miners and ranchers and who receive little help from...