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...hazy on the highway, but still one can see the fork in the road and the divider. The road behind has shown the Indian losing many of his traditions and ways. "Kids don't want to make baskets anymore," David Francis complains. From the very outset of this cultural insemination, they lost their native religion. Though Catholicism embraces many traditional beliefs and values, it does so in a white man's forum, in a white...
...resources of the indigenous populations in South America. It appears that now the governments of South America are trying to compensate for their past laziness. Hunters licensed to shoot animals now pursue Natives as prey in South America, bringing back Indians as trophies. With the new Trans-Amazon highway plans, the Brazilian and other governments are performing "search and destroy" missions on the native people. A Brazilian museum advertised recently that "Indians and other beasts" could be found stuffed for display; this practice occurs at museums in urban centers throughout South America. In Paraguay, the hunting of Indian peoples...
...stating his point, Silverstein quoted a startling figure: "If the government eliminated five miles of interstate highway and divided that money among the six major U.S. orchestras, they'd never have to charge admission to one of those orchestra's concerts ever again...
...bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
Only about 4 million Soviet citizens, or 1.5% of the total, own cars, v. 98 million people, or nearly half the population, in the U.S. But the U.S.S.R. does not have nearly a good enough road network to support even the relatively small number of cars already on the highway. Most of the 860,000 miles of highways are poorly graded and/or potholed; 90% of the system is unpaved. During the spring thaw, fully 70% of the entire network becomes an impassable river of mud. According to Pravda, 40,000 miles of new roads must be built or improved...