Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three Ms. Last week Thailand's rural revolution was in full swing. Even as the first monsoons turned the dusty red roads of the northeast into glutinous scars, hundreds of Mobile Development Unit personnel were crisscrossing the area in Jeeps, junks and oxcarts, spreading Western technology and anti-Communist temerity like spring rice. The propaganda was even fun. Through the northeast's villages rumbled government-sponsored Mobile Information Teams, carrying everything but a merry-go-round. While some teammates distributed schoolbooks, pencils and pictures of King Bhumibol, others tended a queue of sick peasants. Over all blared...
Songbe, a scruffy cluster of hamlets atop a bluff just 75 miles northeast of Saigon. As the capital of Phuoc Long province, Songbe (pop. 2,000) was a perfect target for the Communists, who would like to capture a governmental seat and proclaim their own "provisional government"-thus permitting Communist and nonaligned sympathizers to recognize their regime...
Industrial Push. The first faint breezes of change came in the 1950s when President Getúlio Vargas established the Bank of the Northeast to make economic studies of the area and handle industrial financing. Soon after, the Communists began exploiting the region's miseries by organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government...
...center Economist Celso Furtado, Sudene plowed $40 million into the area, mostly for dams, power projects, roads and other facilities essential to attract industry. The U.S. chipped in $131 million in development loans and grants, while private investors committed $300 million. Despite ever-increasing bureaucratization, overall production in the Northeast climbed 6% in 1964 (v. a 3% decline for Brazil as a whole). Then, in the wake of the March 1964 revolution, the military decided that Leftist Furtado should be purged; he was replaced by Sociologist João Gonçalves de Souza...
...Sudene a private investment goal of $55 million for 1965-and he is well on his way. Around Recife, where new skyscrapers jostle ancient slums, Italy's Pirelli plans to build a big, new electric-cable factory, and Willys-Overland do Brasil is busy on the Northeast's first auto-assembly plant. In seven of the states, work is under way on 1,000 miles of new roads that will help nordestinos bring in the goods they need and get their own products out to a larger market. Fifty-seven cities and towns boast brand-new water systems...