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Number of people killed in the crash last week of a Peruvian airliner in a marsh near the Pucallpa airport...
...protesting intellectuals particularly criticized the Amazon project that is of most concern to ecologists: a proposed road across the western state of Acre to Pucallpa, Peru, where it would link up with a Peruvian highway that stretches over the Andes to Lima. The highway link would provide Acre with a Pacific outlet for its tropical hardwoods, which are much in demand in Japan. It would also open up the western Amazon for the first time to the kind of commercial exploitation that, in the view of environmentalists, would lead to devastation...
...with Roast Tapir. The first language barrier to be cracked was that of the Cashibo Indians, who live along the Aguaytia River. There the linguists had a lucky start. Near the village of Pucallpa, they found a Cashibo named Gregorio Estrella, who had lived on the coast and learned Spanish. Recalls one of Townsend's team: "Gregorio led us to his tribe. They were so pleased when they found we wanted to live just the way they did that they built a house for us." As a starter, the linguists began asking the names of everyday things: banana, fire...
Away With the Boa. By now, Townsend, with headquarters in a group of 35 buildings on Lake Yarinacocha, six miles north of Pucallpa, has a staff of 108 (with 30 children, many of them born at Yarina-ocha). Townsend's teams cover the jungle in six airplanes, keep in touch with headquarters by radio...
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