Word: gabrielic
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...countries hostile to the U.S. raise worries about the Panama Canal's future. "Can you imagine what it would be like to have the canal in the hands of a Lebanon-like country?"asks a U.S. official. Whatever pressure the U.S. decides to bring, one thing is evident. Says Gabriel Lewis Galindo, a former Panamanian diplomat who heads the opposition's lobbying effort in Washington: "There will be no peace in Panama as long as Noriega is in power...
...anniversary, MTV is singing a more troubled tune. Ratings have fallen off, and so has much of the excitement. A couple of hours spent watching MTV today reveal how quickly the avant-garde can become passe. With a few exceptions (the dazzling tattoo of animated images that illustrates Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer), videos have settled into a yawn-provoking rut. Typically they feature scenes of the band in performance intercut with snippets of a fanciful "story" or dressed up with now familiar visual gimmicks (cliche of the season: neoprimitive black and white). Is MTV an idea whose time has already...
...Indians of the Tukano and other tribes over the past seven decades in remote northwestern Brazil. Time, however, is rapidly running out for both missionaries and Indians. The discovery of potentially vast lodes of gold and other minerals is transforming life in a wide region around Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, a small town in the Amazon jungle...
...mining companies, free-lance prospectors and the Brazilian military. Bringing this simmering conflict to a head is the imminent retirement of Dom Miguel Alagna, 75, the autocratic bishop who for the past 20 years has reigned over the Arizona-size diocese from his unpretentious whitewashed brick residence in Sao Gabriel...
...forces aligned against his people, says, "The church taught us to turn the other cheek, but it taught us nothing about the cunning, the subtleties and lies the white man uses." Nevertheless, the 200 Indian leaders who attended a three-day summit meeting last month in Sao Gabriel with mining, government, military and Salesian representatives proved to be highly articulate -- patently a result of their missionary training. In florid speeches, they demanded land rights so they can levy royalties on gold that is mined, as well as better communications, health care and education. The government...