Word: northeasters
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...appalling poverty. Brazil stands only 13th among Latin American nations in per capita income ($520 a year), below even backwaters like Surinam. The average life expectancy is only about 50 years (against 67 in Castro's Cuba), and infant mortality is increasing. In rural areas of the arid Northeast, the average calorie intake of peasants has declined in recent years from 1,800 a day to 1,323-more than 1,200 below what United Nations' food experts consider the minimum for subsistence...
Part of the problem is that the technocrats have not yet brought the full force of their planning to bear on impoverished regions such as the Northeast. But even in expanding areas, poverty seems built into the master plan. Each flat in the new blocks of expensive marble-hailed apartments mushrooming in Rio and Sào Paulo has its minuscule cubicle for a maid who is likely to earn far less than the posted minimum wage of $65 a month. Nor is the incompetence of the old Brazil a thing of the past: a significant aspect of the Transamazonian...
...another threat has arisen. Since last fall a murky little war that pits the Burmese army against a large-scale offensive by a resurgent Burma Communist Party has been raging in the northeast. It is the largest rebellion to threaten Burma since the country gained its independence from Britain...
...rest of the country, traffic is up less dramatically-a pattern that seems to reflect the geographically uneven bite of the gasoline shortage. Amtrak cars are still rolling across the Midwest and Far West nearly empty, while station managers in the Northeast have had to rent cars from local commuter railroads to help handle the crush. Amtrak's losses swelled to $158 million last year, $11 million more than in 1972, despite a 24% gain in revenues, to $202 million. Congress is picking up nearly all of the tab through a $154 million subsidy, and Amtrak officials are expected...
...that the pilot, Captain Nejat Berkoz, 44, was attempting to land at Charles de Gaulle airport at Roissy, Europe's newest and largest, which goes into operation this week. He missed by several miles, crashing in the peaceful forest of Ermenonville, a game refuge in the gentle hills northeast of Paris...