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...practicality of proposed government plans to move whole sierra villages into the vast, unsettled selva is extremely dubious to anyone who has felt the oppressive, steaming air of the Amazon basin. Until some solution is found, penniless sierra Indians and mestizos will continue to pour into the rapidly growing slums which ring Peru's modern coastal cities...
...Picchu was in reality the Tampu-Tocco ("Window Tavern") of pre-Inca legend, a mountain fortress maintained by the kings of the Amautas, who ruled the highlands of the Andes for 62 generations. The last king, Pachacuti VI, was mortally wounded in a battle with barbarian tribes of the Amazon jungles, probably in the 8th century A.D., and his body was carried by his loyal warriors to Tampu-Tocco. With the death of Pachacuti, the widespread kingdom of the Amautas broke into pieces...
...With 16% of the world's forests, Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
...Amazon and Paraná are two of the world's largest sedimentary basins-together nearly 2,000,000 sq. mi. But of potential oceans of oil, only traces have been found; last year Brazil produced only 30% of its requirements from an old field at Bahia...
...take off for 13 weeks in the States on another money-raising roundup. This time the bishop hopes to be traveling on a brand-new passport-a Brazilian one. After long pondering the matter, he applied for Brazilian citizenship. "After 17 years of beans, rice, and transfusions by Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people and I love...