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...climate was praised by more modern travelers as "perpetual spring." But early natives of the Canary Islands,*70 miles off the northwest coast of Africa, knew better. They chose the name Pico de Teide (Peak of Hell) for the 12,200-ft. volcanic mountain that looms broodingly over Tenerife, largest of the seven major islands: the natives thought the devil lurked inside it. Last week Tenerife was about as hellish as any place on earth...
That task has been assigned principally to Videla's wiry, pragmatic Economy Minister, José Martinez de Hoz, 51, former chairman of Argentina's largest private steel company. If the country's economy can be saved, business leaders agree, he can do it. Thanks largely to his conservative fiscal policies, Argentina's foreign reserves have grown in the past year from $23 million to more than $2.3 billion. After a $1 billion deficit in 1975, the country's 1976 balance of payments returned to the black, buoyed by a record 11.2 million-ton wheat harvest...
...offensive is striking. More than half of the 266 federally recognized tribes are litigating claims and contentions. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, a party to 30 such cases four years ago, was coping with 80 by the end of 1976. The Native American Rights Fund, the largest organization specializing in Indian law, opened headquarters in Boulder, Colo., six years ago with ten cases; today it handles almost 400 cases in 40 states...
...land-claim cases are all in the East. The million or so non-Indian inhabitants of Maine seemed challenged at first by the land claims of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, whose target area embraced 12.5 million acres. The claim remains the largest of those pending, even though the Indians have reduced their target to some 8 million sparsely settled acres. Fully as disturbing as the claim, as some down-Easters see it, is the fact that the Indians have the active backing of the U.S. Justice Department. Actually, Justice has no choice. In a 1974 case brought...
...against martial law." Perhaps the most enthusiastic response of all came from New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former U.S. Ambassador to India (1973-75). He introduced a resolution in the Senate to "congratulate the free people of the Republic of India" for successfully holding "the largest democratic elections in history." With his customary Irish hyperbole, Moynihan told reporters, "Nothing that will happen in Washington this year will be as important to America as what happened in New Delhi in the past few days. Political democracy has reasserted its claim on the future of the world...