Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem now is Brazil's highway-building program, which is lacing the vast Amazon region with roads, including the trans-Amazon highway stretching 2,843 miles from Recife on the Atlantic Coast to the Peruvian border...
...Indians, viewing them as embarrassing and obstructive Stone Age remnants in an increasingly modern state. The Waimiris and Atroaris understand only too well that modern Brazil, with its population of 100 million, will encroach ever more rapidly on Indian land. They know too that the trans-Amazon highway threatens to be more devastating than any of the slave traders or gold miners who upset their lives in the past...
...worst effects of the quake centered on a 70-mile belt of the Karakoram Highway, which was built with the aid of the Chinese along the old silk route linking Tibet and Kashmir. "When the quake started at dusk, I was saying my prayers with five other policemen in the police-station mosque," recalled Constable Mian Zar of the village of Pattan. "Suddenly, the whole building started shaking and the roof collapsed. Three of my colleagues were killed...
Pattan (pop. 10,000), which lies on the western bank of the Indus River in a bowl of snow-capped mountains, was completely destroyed. Across the river in the village of Palos, a mosque collapsed, killing 40 worshipers. A 25-mile portion of the Karakoram Highway caved in, while huge boulders blocked other sections...
...provincial capitals, and government outposts manned by the increasingly feeble regional militia. Kien Tuong and Dinh Tuong provinces were particularly hard hit (see map). Communists in Kien Tuong, using a shoulder-fired missile, shot down a huge Chinook helicopter, killing all 54 government troops aboard. A major target was Highway 4, linking the Delta with Saigon...