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...Brazil from the Third to the First World, and he is convinced he can do it with a freer market, greater industrial efficiency and a leaner bureaucracy. Certainly, Brazil's potential is enormous. It has immense rivers and forests, rich agricultural lands, huge deposits of gold, gems, petroleum, iron ore and minerals. With a gross domestic product of $350 billion and annual exports of $34 billion, it is Latin America's most developed nation...
...yuppie lunacy, just as they shirk from starting another social revolution. Today's young adults want to stay in their own backyard and do their work in modest ways. "We're not trying to change things. We're trying to fix things," says Anne McCord, 21, of Portland, Ore. "We are the generation that is going to renovate America. We are going to be its carpenters and janitors...
Their triumph came in 1986, with the passage of sanctions. The law banned new U.S. investments in South Africa, prohibited imports of ore and farm products and revoked the landing privileges of South Africa Airways. The sanctions must remain in effect until South Africa releases all political prisoners, repeals the state of emergency in all provinces, legalizes all democratic political parties, establishes a timetable for eliminating apartheid and begins talks with black leaders...
Local governments in Berkeley, Portland, Ore., and Glen Cove, N.Y., have banned the material, forcing McDonald's to switch to paper packaging. About a dozen other cities have enacted similar restrictions, and hundreds more towns have considered such laws...
...industry contends that Kerr's notoriety has set back attempts to find a compromise solution to the logging controversy. "He's the most polarizing force out there," fumes Tom Hirons, owner of Mad Creek Logging in Gates, Ore. "He practices mental terrorism." Hirons and fellow loggers refuse even to sit down at the same table with Kerr...