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Donning army fatigues, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello boarded an air force SuperPuma helicopter last week and flew over the dense rain forest of Roraima in the northern Amazon. The region is home to the Yanomami, a stone-age tribe threatened with extinction. For the past three years, their federally protected lands have been devastated by gold prospectors, whose search for riches has led to the deaths of an estimated 1,200 Indians from the 9,000-member tribe, largely through disease. Last October a federal court ordered the miners to leave the territory. But hundreds remained, using crude...
...President suffers from narrow political backing in the Brazilian Congress as well. His National Reconstruction Party controls only 22 of the 495 seats in the lower house. Unofficially, half of all members back his proposals. But the legislators are up for re-election in October and face enormous pressure from their constituents who worry about whether they will get their frozen assets back. "The poor are demanding I vote for the package, but the middle class will kill me if I do," says Congressman Luiz Henrique...
...Stapelman: "We've bridged the gap between classic gourmet cuisine and natural food." Gingerbread-style Chez Panisse, located in Berkeley, features winter-squash tortellini in a black-truffle sauce as part of its $55 prix-fixe dinner. As an appetizer, Chicago's Printer's Row offers a choice of Brazilian mussel chowder ($4.50) or fresh white and green asparagus steamed with Sauterne and oranges...
These are busy times for Rio's thieves, at whose hands the lusty Brazilian city is suffering a public relations disaster. As the tourism season reaches its peak with the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival, the number of crimes committed against foreigners has risen so high that officials have predicted the most lawless Carnival in 25 years. Many tour operators are dropping Rio from their itineraries, and group sales from the U.S. could be down as much as 60% compared with 1988. Hotels that used to be 90% occupied at Carnival time are now only half full...
...sidewalks and beaches of the Brazilian city are usually plump with thieves' prey at festival time. But grim and mounting homicides and robberies are making it hard to sell...