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...group of wealthy Nicaraguan businessmen, lawyers and other prominent figures, including poet and national hero Ernesto Cardenal, have left the country for Costa Rica, vowing never to return until Somoza's fall. Calling themselves Los Doce, ("The Twelve"), the group issued a statement praising the "political maturity" of the FSLN guerrilla movement and warning that the Sandinista front must participate in any solution to Nicaragua's problems...
Except for the President's palace, the most famous address in Chile was once 49 Doce de Febrero, Santiago. Here was the center of Chile's intellectual life, the home of a slight, courtly figure known as "Don J.T." Until his death in 1930, Jose Toribio Medina reigned as Chile's cultural grandee, dispensing advice and talk to all who came to see him. Scholars and celebrities flocked to him, and it was even a tradition for foreign diplomats to pay their respects soon after they arrived in town...
Other Towns. The story of Cametá can be repeated in 89 other towns and villages in the green sweep of the Amazon Valley, and 81 more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered...
...outgrowth of the wartime U.S. interest in the Amazon's rubber and the Rio Doce's iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It is jointly headed by Brazil's curt, round-faced Dr. Marcolino Candau, 37, a Johns-Hopkins-trained carioca, and by IIAA's quietly competent Dr. Eugene Campbell, 41, also a Hopkins product...
...compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents, dug out 177,000 metric tons of ore, sold it to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. at a profit...