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...first hint of astronomy among the Southwest's original settlers had come a few years earlier when Artist Anna Sofaer was photographing spiral petroglyphs in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, once the center of a flourishing Indian civilization. The carvings had been left by the area's former inhabitants, the Anasazi. For hundreds of years they lived in the canyon, creating astonishing multistoried cliff dwellings, only to vanish mysteriously at the start of the 14th century. Sofaer, visiting the site around the time of the summer solstice, noticed that a beam of sunlight sliced right through...
Though Pérez Esquivel is only the second Argentine ever to win the Peace Prize (the first was Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas in 1936 for having settled the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay), the reaction of the junta was singularly graceless. Claiming that the award had "taken the country by surprise," the military leadership charged that Pérez Esquivel's activities "were effectively used, regardless of his intentions, to make the movement of various terrorist organizations easier...
...ugliest speculation about Mengele is that once again he may be involved in the destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...
...next corner, where the street intersected the chief thoroughfare of the quarter, three old men sat in a doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips...
...progress outside Peru is also impressive. Though Ecuador and Colombia have not gone beyond the planning stage, Venezuela has already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after Belaunde...