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...another entry to the list of potential trouble spots around the world: the barren but mineral-rich Atacama Desert at the narrow border between Chile and Peru...
...democratic process as this nation of 9,000,000. Even its geography helped by isolating it from its neighbors. Stretching more than 2,600 miles down the west coast of South America, Chile has the towering Andes to the east, the Pacific to the west, the parched and barren Atacama Desert to the north and, in the south, the craggy shores of Tierra del Fuego. Yet next week the Chilean Congress will confront a dilemma that no republican legislature has ever faced: whether or not to allow a freely elected Marxist to become President of the country. Dr. Salvador Allende...
...region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does not end soon, in fact, the Chilean weather bureau warns that the Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest, may begin advancing into the country's crop-rich central zone...
Geological Conference. Papers: A recent Scientific Voyage to South America. Mr. R. DeC. Ward.- Note on the Nitre Deposits of the Atacama Desert. Dr. Charles Palache. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Papers: A recent Scientific Voyage to South America. Mr. R. DeC. Ward.- Note on the Nitre Deposits of the Atacama Desert. Dr. Charles Palache. Geological Laboratory, Room...