Word: belem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week his government took two key steps toward imposing restraints on Portugal's new-found sense of freedom. Since the coup, Portugal has been virtually paralyzed by a succession of strikes and work stoppages. From Belem Palace, Spinola asked for tough new guidelines on pay raises for the unions. He also succeeded in ending a three-day strike of postal workers by warning them that if they did not return to their jobs he would send in the army to sort the mail. Military arm-twisting was also used to end a month-long walkout at the Timex...
Brazil's Transamazonian Highway, begun a year ago last week, has another three years and about 8,000 miles to go before it is finished. The $500 million, 9,000-mile highway network will provide the first land link between Brazil's Atlantic seaboard ports of Belem and Recife and the Bolivian and Peruvian borders-and perhaps eventually the Pacific. Other roads will reach out to Surinam, French Guiana, Colombia and Venezuela to the north, and to Brazil's industrialized states in the south...
...almost parallel to it, the Transamazonian Highway project is already being billed by President Emilio G. Medici's military regime as the work of the century. Not since the feverish 1950s, when former President Juscelino Kubitschek built the city of Brasilia and had the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway carved out of the jungle, have Brazilians responded with such a display of national pride to the challenge of conquering their last natural frontier...
Kubitschek was stripped of his political rights after a military junta seized control in 1964, but his visionary aims are taking shape. Thousands of peasants have flocked to the "satellite cities" that spread out from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...