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...Lewis) William Seidman has reached the enviable state of not having to prove anything to anybody. He does not need to make a lot of money because he's already a millionaire, with houses in Georgetown and on Nantucket and a 15,000-acre cattle ranch in New Mexico. He doesn't need to show he's fit because he still does 50 push-ups before work every morning. ("After you've done that, anything else for the rest of the day is a pleasure.") And as for his powerful position, just across the street from the White House...
...risky venture, but Seidman (pronounced seed-man) is used to living dangerously. Just last June he was out riding on his ranch when his horse shied from an insect and started bucking. "Rather than get thrown off, I jumped off," Seidman later told a reporter. "I had a better chance to land right." The horse dragged him some distance, though, and Seidman had to undergo two operations to repair a fractured pelvis and hip. He still uses a cane but hopes to get rid of it soon...
...economy that relies on products of the land for export earnings, the rural crisis is especially painful. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, now retired to his sheep and cattle ranch in the state of Victoria, warns that the slump could be the worst since the Great Depression 60 years ago. According to the New South Wales Farmers Association, its members are selling out and leaving the land at the rate of one every two hours. Says Daryl Reading of Gowrie: "It makes you mad. We're good at what we do, but we still can't make a living...
Rarely does history draw a complete and ironic circle in a single generation. In Marion, La., the result makes an odd spectacle. In this unpaved country of clay soil and bayous, deep in a wilderness of pines, stands the white brick ranch house of Joseph and Hazel Hampton, complete with gold- flecked ceilings, a built-in barbecue grill and the creamy smell of fresh carpet. The house might belong on the groomed set of Knots Landing, but it stands instead on the spot where Hazel Hampton once picked cotton, within sight of the sharecropper's cabin, now silvery from weather...
...dozen people expected to testify during the trial, the key prosecution witness is 16-year-old Genesio Barbosa da Silva (no relation to the defendants), a former Da Silva ranch hand. He told police that he overheard the younger Da Silva plan and then boast of Mendes' murder. Several other people have said they heard both Da Silvas threaten Mendes and the seringueiros. And the son confessed to the shooting, although he later retracted the statement...