Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Correspondent John Blashill made the journey through Brazil's poverty-stricken Northeast, a land as worrisome as "six Cubas." His searching report (see THE HEMISPHERE) makes the misery of the land apparent, and yet finds room to describe the elements around which hope may build...
Brazil's enormous northeast bulge has more people-25 million-than Argentina, more land-597,353 sq. mi.-than all of Central America. If the Northeast was a separate nation, it would rank second in population, third in area, in South America. Last week a governor of one of the nine states that make up the Northeast-Aluizio Alves of Rio Grande do Norte-described another feature of the region. "It is," said he, "the biggest blight on the Western Hemisphere, with dangers enough to be six Cubas...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
Reaching Due My training camp 170 miles northeast of Saigon, Harkins reviewed an honor guard, climbed into a Jeep with U.S. Adviser Captain William Berzinec of Newark, N.J., and drove to headquarters for a briefing by the camp commander. Vietnamese Colonel Dang Van Son. During the rest of the morning, Harkins saw Vietnamese trainees make a sham attack with blank ammunition on a mock Viet Cong village and then repulse an attempted ambush by "guerrillas." Amid the clatter of machine guns and explosions of "noise" grenades, Harkins commented. "These guys are really good." In one of the final demonstrations, Ranger...
...outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children - sunburned, dirty and ragged under wide-brimmed straw hats. At the end of a ten-day trek from Brazil's drought-afflicted Northeast, they shouldered their clothes bundles and started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will get jobs." Throughout most of Latin America, there is a flight from...