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...full scope of Deby's relationship with Gaddafi remains hazy, it is known that Libya equipped Deby's army with as many as 200 Toyota land cruisers fitted with 23-mm Soviet-made cannons. Deby's army arrived in N'Djamena with other equipment commonly stockpiled by Libya, including Brazilian-made six- wheel armored vehicles with 90-mm guns...
There are encouraging signs, however, that the old ways of Brazilians are changing. Women's groups in Rio de Janeiro are mobilizing to bring public pressure on the justice system. Earlier this year, a Belo Horizonte man was sentenced to 19 years for killing his wife. "Things have got better," says Sandra Lima of the Confederation of Brazilian Women, "but they are still far from ideal...
They swept through a remote northern stretch of the Amazon rain forest on a mission to rescue one of South America's most primitive peoples. Swooping over the jungle canopy in helicopters and small planes, 80 Brazilian troops and government officials have spent the past three weeks dynamiting airstrips used by thousands of garimpeiros, or prospectors. Lured to the Brazil-Venezuela border by one of the world's richest deposits of gold, the garimpeiros have not only damaged a precious patch of rain forest but have also threatened the survival of the Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Stone Age tribe...
...gold rush, which began in 1987, has been devastating. The garimpeiros have denuded large tracts of forest, poisoned rivers with mercury and introduced numerous diseases. Since the miners' arrival, more than 1,500 of the 10,000 Brazilian Yanomami have died. Most succumbed to malaria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, as well as malnutrition brought on by a dwindling supply of fish and game. "They gave us rice and wheat, but then we got sick," says a Yanomami named Saba, who is recuperating from tuberculosis. "They pretended to be our friends, but they are killing...
...Brazilian government tries to drive gold miners from the remote Amazon homeland of the Yanomami Indians by dynamiting clandestine jungle airstrips...