Word: interiorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mountains, jungle, savanna, pampas, desert and suddenly, amidst all the distances, a city of four million, or eight. Against the Big Sky of the Brazilian interior, the wide, windy vistas of Brasilia, with some human touches creeping in around the edges of the totalitarian master design−it will be a great capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls...
...first and third floors are editorial offices for the various publications--the weekly Review of the News, the monthly magazine American Opinion--as well as for Western Islands. Interior decoration consists of the original paintings that were reproduced on the cover of American Opinion. Most are either portraits--Chaing Kai-Shek, Ian Smith, Gen. Curtis Lemay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur--or scenes of American life, as Birchers view it: anxious mothers seeing upright young men off to war, congregational picnics after church on Sundays, flags everywhere...
...INTERIOR, four-Walter Hickel, Morton, Stanley Hathaway, Thomas Kleppe...
Even then, the outcome may be a partitioning of the country into the three areas where the movements have their greatest indigenous support-the M.P.L.A. along the coastline and in the northern and eastern interior, the F.N.L.A. in the northwest and UNITA in the central and southern part of the country. Angola's resources are divided in such a way that each of the areas could be economically viable. But if it takes three years of bloodletting on the scale of the past twelve months to reach that solution, then everyone will be a loser in the wake...
...understanding the contrast between Angolan chaos and Mozambican stability lies in the divergent pattern of Portuguese colonization in the two countries. In Mozambique Portuguese economic penetration was restricted to the coastal cites, leaving the agrarian interior relatively untouched. Frelimo was therefore able to mobilize the entire peasantry against Portuguese rule, creating alternative political institutions during the colonial war itself. So when independence came, Frelimo already controlled most of the population and was ready to take power immediately with a coherent plan for socialist development. Angola, on the other hand, is among the most industrialized countries in black Africa, so that...