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...drought and is perhaps the most vulnerable part of the forest. Fires here could grow into the worst conflagration the Amazon has ever seen. Daniel Nepstad, an ecologist who divides his time between the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research in Belem, Brazil, warns that the paving of BR-163 "could be the beginning of the end of the Amazon...
...through cheering throngs in a vintage Rolls-Royce borrowed from an auto museum for the occasion. By the time the open car reached Lisbon's cathedral, it was inches deep in confetti and flower petals that the crowd had showered on John Paul. Later the Pope met in Belem Palace with Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes...
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
Despite his age and a painful back ailment from a shipboard accident in the 1920s, Ludwig is amazingly energetic and keeps close watch on Jari. He receives a constant flow of reports at his headquarters. More important, several times a year he flies to Belem on Brazil's northern coast, traveling economy class except when he can hitch a free ride on a friend's corporate jet. At Belem he waits for the Fairchild turboprop that makes the 90-min. flight daily between the port city and Jari. Disdaining VIP treatment, Ludwig crowds on board with newly recruited...
Annoyed by this insubordination, Costa Gomes summoned Morais da Silva to Lisbon's Belem Palace to deliver a reprimand. But then the army chief of staff, General Carlos Fabiao, also spoke out against Gonçalves. The bearded Fabiao called an all-day meeting of army officers at Tancos, 80 miles north of Lisbon, to discuss the situation. "Speaking in the name of the army," Fabiao told newsmen before the convention, "I doubt that the figure of Vasco Gonçalves contributes anything to the unity of the army−to the contrary...