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BRAZIL. Throughout the northeastern area, known as the Polygon of Drought, 21 million people have now endured four years without meaningful rain. As conditions have deteriorated, violence has erupted throughout the hinterland. In the small, cattle-raising town of Monsenhor Tabosa, 1,000 people from the countryside recently sacked a school commissary when the local mayor began distributing rice, beans and flour. Under similar circumstances, 400 angry villagers stormed the local mayor's office in the remote western town of Senhor Pompeu. So far the Brazilian government has spent $800 million to build dams, aqueducts and wells, while trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Drought, Death And Despair | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spectral Appendectomy | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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