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...sustainable development to work, observed Paulo Nogueira-Neto, environmental adviser to the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, governments will have to devise comprehensive national zoning plans so that their countries can achieve the right mix of preservation and economic growth. Local residents can be encouraged to earn a livelihood in the more robust areas, while habitats that are fragile can be protected. Sustainable development can proceed, noted Kenneth Piddington, director of the environmental department of the World Bank, "right up to a park's boundary...
...burly senior officer who strode into Haitian army headquarters in Port- au-Prince last week was greeted by delighted shouts of "Paulo!" But Colonel % Jean-Claude Paul, commander of the 700 elite troops at the Dessalines barracks who make up Haiti's toughest fighting force, is far from universally adored. Critics call him a harsh commander whose soldiers have fired on unarmed civilians, and the U.S. indicted him in Miami last March for drug trafficking. Although Paul denies the charge, the indictment came to symbolize a growing rupture with the U.S. that threatened Haiti's desire to advance from turmoil...
Only in the fertile soil of Sao Paulo state near what is now Americana did the transplanted prewar Dixie ways take hold. Still, the 94 Confederate ) families who stayed, their fortunes depleted, found homesteading a humbling experience. Few could afford the number of slaves they had back home. "When my mother was a girl here, she picked cotton right alongside the slaves, something she didn't do in Arkansas," drawls Charlotte Ferguson Costarelli, 83, a third-generation descendant...
While the Finance Minister did not criticize U.S. lenders, many Brazilians did. Said Senator Severo Gomes, a member of the ruling party: "There can be no attitude of flexibility toward the banks." Said Aldo Lorenzetti, a Sao Paulo-based businessman: "Each side is baring its teeth and sharpening its claws to get the best possible result in the negotiations...
...everyone, however, has been delighted with McDonald's hamburger imperialism. In the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where McDonald's has 16 outlets, hundreds of local restaurant owners and tavernkeepers marched through the streets last May to protest the incursion of American junk food, shouting, "Down with hamburgers!" and "Long live the corner bar!" Despite such friction, McDonald's plans to open 200 foreign outlets this year...