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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just remember that if things are going badly, they'll probably get worse--unless you do something about them...
...course not. A number of ((petitioners)) didn't get what they were asking...
...people get the opposite impression...
...people in Washington don't like what you're doing. And there were Congressmen that didn't like the approach I was trying to take. And there were people -- not just in Congress, but developers and builders and so forth -- who wanted to keep programs that I wanted to get rid of because I thought they were wasteful. I think about the names I've been called in this town. I've been called Stepin Fetchit, I've been called Silent Sam, Mr. Mayor.* I've been called Svengali. It shows what people will do. To be popular, you must...
This courageous leader did not set out to save the Amazon but to improve the lot of rubber tappers, or seringueiros. He and his men would try to dissuade peasants from clearing land. The ranchers were eager to get rid of him, but he survived one assassination attempt after another. The conflict finally came to a head last year, when Mendes confronted a rancher named Darli Alves da Silva, who wanted to cross land claimed by rubber tappers to cut an adjacent 300-acre plot. After Mendes and a group of 200 seringueiros peacefully turned back the rancher...