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Beyond lies the desert, so parched that for miles on end not a living thing can be seen. A short distance inland, the Andean foothills rise to 13,000-ft. plateaus, inhabited by 53% of Peru's 11 million people, virtually all of them Indians. Some labor in the mines for $2 a day; others work the steeply terraced hillsides, chewing gummy wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua...
...King sees four plateaus within a skyward spiral of interracial progress. Down at the bottom is slavery, initiated in 1619 with the first shipment of African captives to the New World. Next comes segregation, a phase begun with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of complexity." In the third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love...
Tiles & Horseshoe. The ruins, says Savoy, cover some 6 to 10 sq. mi. and stretch across three succeeding plateaus. The first plateau-roughly four times the size of Machu Picchu-begins at about 4,500 ft.; the second is at 5,500 ft., and the last, poking eerily up through a misty halo of clouds, may reach as high...
Rainfall in most of that region averages only about 5 in. per year, barely enough to support the dustiest desert vegetation. But the Nabataeans learned how to concentrate the rain, leading the water off bare plateaus and making it flow gently down narrow valleys so that it filled cisterns cut in the rock and sank into the fields enclosed in stone walls. Valleys that are now deserted except for wandering Bedouins, once supported strings of villages. The country has never been as thickly inhabited since...
...practice, where proper planning precedes the opening up of new, tillable land, reform has worked. At some of the large ejidos on the dry, rocky central plateaus, resettled peasants now have irrigated fields, modern machinery, new roads to market, radios and refrigerators, and tuition-free trade schools. New villages with thriving shops and markets have sprung up near the farms. The government provides low-interest loans for modern equipment and technical training. Mexican land reform, says the government, is in a "constructive phase," and since 1959 more than 26,000 people have hacked out new farms and villages on tracts...