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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEFORE that can occur, however, it must be realized that the racism that exists today is not the same as that which precipitated the movement for equality almost thirty years ago. Segregation, for example, although no longer legal, quite ostensibly still mars many of this country's major businesses...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: A Call to Educational Arms | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...Barco's boldness. Luz Amparo Gomez, 29, a former investigator for the attorney general's office who was involved in a legal action against drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, was driving to her home when gunmen shot her to death. Hours later, the wife of a police major was gunned down outside her home. A day earlier, the wife of an intelligence officer attached to the 13th Brigade, the army unit that has spearheaded the crackdown, was murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Passing the Extradition Test | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Scientists are concerned that the destruction of the Amazon could lead to climatic chaos. Because of the huge volume of clouds it generates, the Amazon system plays a major role in the way the sun's heat is distributed around the globe. Any disturbance of this process could produce far-reaching, unpredictable effects. Moreover, the Amazon region stores at least 75 billion tons of carbon in its trees, which when burned spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Since the air is already dangerously overburdened by carbon dioxide from the cars and factories of industrial nations, the torching of the Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...today. The country has continued to build roads, dams and settlements, often with funding and technical advice from the World Bank, the European Community and Japan. Two of the largest -- and, to the rain forest, most threatening -- projects are Grande Carajas, a giant development program that includes a major mining complex, and Polonoroeste, a highway-and-settlement scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Fabio Feldmann, the leading environmentalist in the Brazilian congress, alleges that much of the momentum behind the dam projects and other large public works derives from an extremely lucrative relationship between the major contractors and politicians. A dam may not have to make all that much sense if it generates sufficient commisso (commissions) for the right people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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