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...Raleigh's day, the north coast of South America still contains one of the largest unbroken tracts of tropical forest left in the world. Fewer than 50,000 people live in a natural kingdom larger than California that encompasses nearly all of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana and is buffered by virgin rain forest in Brazil and Venezuela. Some parts of the woodland are so isolated from civilization that monkeys are more curious than fearful when they encounter humans...
...noon--Festivities begin at MIT University Park near Central Square. Vendors will sell different kinds of ethnic food as musicians and dancers from such countries as Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana and Barbados perform...
...Australian doctor, an idealistic revolutionary, a dazzling lady leftist whose eyes show "a vulnerability that she took such pains to conceal . . ." Len Deighton is at it again, this time in the treacherous jungles of South America. Throughout MAMista (HarperCollins; 410 pages; $21.95), guerrillas attempt to seize control of Spanish Guiana, currently under the thumb of cryptofascist goons. The covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even so, the characters are shrewdly delineated...
Among these are the relatively high proportion of women victims in some countries. The male to female ratio in French Guiana is 1.5 to 1; Hondurus, 1.7 to 1; Bahamas, 1.8 to 1, and Trinidad...
...Arianespace, the French-led European space consortium, which quickly booked all its flights through 1989. But the European concern could not take on all of NASA's customers, partly because it can handle only about ten lift- offs a year at its launch pads in the jungles of French Guiana...