Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the past 100 years Brazil's 29 rulers have included Portuguese monarchs, populist revolutionaries, fascist generals and moderate republicans. Regardless of era or ideology, all have faced a common adversary: O Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil's foremost newspaper. On a continent where journalistic rebels perish quickly and most surviving publications are servile in spirit, O Estado stands out as a durable, responsible independent. The paper so treasures its freedom that last month, on the 100th anniversary of its founding, it publicly still admitted to only 95 years of independent existence; the years 1940-45 are excluded...
...staff is large enough - 445 reporters, stringers and editors - to pro vide the most comprehensive coverage of any South American paper. Despite a dull format, the paper is required reading for Brazil's professional classes. Such prestige brings in more advertising than O Estado can use. Though circulation is modest (198,000 daily, 300,000 Sunday), earnings this year may total $5.4 million...
...problem now is Brazil's highway-building program, which is lacing the vast Amazon region with roads, including the trans-Amazon highway stretching 2,843 miles from Recife on the Atlantic Coast to the Peruvian border...
...Although Brazil has four national parks and 17 reservations set aside for the Indians, the tribes' future is gloomy. Except for a few dedicated Indianists in FUNAI, Brazilians on the whole have never cared much for the Indians, viewing them as embarrassing and obstructive Stone Age remnants in an increasingly modern state. The Waimiris and Atroaris understand only too well that modern Brazil, with its population of 100 million, will encroach ever more rapidly on Indian land. They know too that the trans-Amazon highway threatens to be more devastating than any of the slave traders or gold miners...
Kyle Patterson grew up on a Tuscarora Indian reservation near Niagara Falls, N.Y. But she has also been an exchange student in Brazil, has gone on a cross-country trip with her mother and her brother, and has lived in Germany with her parents...