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Pleasure in Torture. In their massacres, the officials and speculators displayed a grisly relish and inventiveness. In Bahia state, the government claims, white men purposely killed off two tribes of Pataxó Indians ten years ago with inoculations of smallpox virus in order to get their land. In Mato Grosso five years ago, a gift of sugar laced with arsenic wiped out the Tapaiuna Indians. Another Mato Grosso tribe was first shot up by a band of gunmen, then bombed from the air by dynamite sticks tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high...
...Taming Mato Grosso. Equally important, Urubupungá, like Brasília before it, will be a force in shifting the center of gravity westward into the nation's vast undeveloped sectors. Beyond the flatlands surrounding the Paraná River is the wild frontier of Mato Grosso, where cattlemen, rubber gatherers, construction men and Indians fight the jungle and sometimes each other. While the initial lure was gold, the area has been found rich in iron, manganese and limestone, not to mention fertile grazing pastures. The trouble is transportation, which is nearly nonexistent...
...BRAZIL Volunteers will serve Pernambuco, Paraiba, Bahia, Mato Grosso and Sergipe under the State Secretariats of Health and Social Welfare. They will be assigned to local health posts and will work with health post personnel...
...BRAZIL Volunteers will work with the Special Service of Rural Electrification in Sao Paulo and the Electricity Centers of Mato Grosso, extending the electrical networks of the state. They will set standards for installation, measure capacity of substations and branch lines, stake and check lines, install and inspect meters, supervise construction and maintain and repair installations...
Half a dozen other major projects are under way, from the Boa Esperanca Dam to three new dams in the frontier state of Mato Grosso. Brazilians dream of harnessing the raging Parana River, creating a complex twelve times as big as Egypt's Aswan Dam. The Parana's potential: 25 million...