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...threat that U.S. leaders rarely mention but that weighs heaviest on the minds of geopolitical analysts, namely, that successful Marxist revolutions in the small states of the isthmus could pull Mexico to the left, confronting the U.S. with a populous (75 million) enemy along a 2,000-mile, at present, undefended border. It is not only in Washington that this thought crops up. Soviet officials have mused aloud about how much easier their worldwide competition with the U.S. would be if American energies were diverted by a Western Hemisphere analogy to the threat the U.S.S.R. faces along its own border...
...virtually impossible to write about a place where the clock stands still. The one willful exception is Niihau, a privately owned cultural preserve in Hawaii. All visitors, movies, alcohol and dogs are banned from the 18-mile-long island, and Government officials are not permitted to spend the night among the 226 residents, most of whom still claim pure Hawaiian ancestry. On the mainland, small ironies continue to tinge a region's complexion. New Yorkers complain about the Hispanization of the Big Apple, while New Mexicans of Spanish descent grump that their state is becoming too Anglo...
...incident occurred just hours after the 31 Harvard riders--along with five others on the 66-day, 3800-mile journey from Seattle to Boston--received keys to the City of Detroit during a downtown ceremony attended by about 350 people...
...economy gradually got out of control. Government spending became too lavish. Subway systems under construction in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which have absorbed $2.1 billion so far, are the most expensive per mile in the world. Runaway deficits led to more and more foreign borrowing and fueled relentless inflation, which already averaged 20% a year in the early 1970s. When the global energy crisis hit in 1973, Brazil was overextended and vulnerable. Over the next six years, the country had to pay $35 billion, all of it borrowed, for oil imports...
...resources. Since the mid-1970s, huge new deposits of iron, manganese, nickel, copper, bauxite and gold have been discovered deep in the Amazon basin. To exploit this mineral wealth, the Brazilians have launched a mammoth development scheme, called the Carajas Project, that includes dozens of mines, a 550-mile railroad and a giant dam on an arm of the Amazon, all to be completed by 1990. The cost will be staggering: $61 billion. But the eventual income from the project, estimated at $14.6 billion annually, may be worth the initial expense...