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Carter tried to downplay differences on arriving at his next stop, Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil. Its ruling generals angrily canceled military and foreign aid agreements with the U.S. last year after the Administration criticized the country's record on human rights. Also, Brazil resents U.S. opposition to its plans to buy nuclear reactors from West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that...
...disturbs the silence. But man is on the way. Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with the unspoiled surroundings...
...Fairbanks have ruled out each other's cities, because each group wants the new honor that it, the resulting power and additional revenue additional revenue to fall on its own city. With literally no alternate choices, the politicians decide to build a new capital, grimly citing the example of Brasilia, a city built in the wilderness because "various parts of Brazil despise one another and would only agree on a wilderness site." While the decision to build a new state capital is an important one--part of disturbing trend of sacrificing the Alaskan wilderness to economic and political exigencies...
...about two-thirds of Jari's work force frequently return to the operation for another season in the forest. Some of the criticism of Jari may stem from political jealousies. Ludwig and his managers routinely bypass local officials, including the state governors, and deal only with top officials in Brasilia, the national capital...
Died. Juscelino Kubitschek, 73, imaginative', popular former President of Brazil (1956-61), who built Brasilia, a new concrete-and-glass capital in the desolate interior, in order to hasten Brazil's northern development; in an automobile accident; near Rio de Janeiro. A surgeon by training, Kubitschek relinquished a lucrative society practice to pursue his political career. He captured the presidency with a platform of "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Foreign investment and farsighted government programs helped build highways, power projects and a thriving automobile industry, but high inflation, deficits and charges of corruption marred his five-year...