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...past two weeks, workers have staged a string of strikes, including an illegal six-day walkout by 1,350 employees at two state oil refineries. It was the first work stoppage in the crucial energy industry since a military coup ousted the last elected civilian government in 1964. In Rio de Janeiro, 30,000 protesters marched; many waved placards urging the government not to surrender the nation. After Figueiredo's speech, which seemed to confirm the public's fears, Joaquim Dos Santos Andrade, president of the São Paulo Metalworkers Union, said: "This is the best...
...long way to go before recovering its economic health. Buffeted by the global recession, the country has been suffering for two years. Since 1980, the per capita gross national product has declined by 4.4%. In the first quarter of this year, retail sales dropped by 13.3% in Rio de Janeiro and 10.3% in São Paulo. Factories that produce construction equipment and other capital goods are operating at only 20% of capacity, and 8.5% of the country's workers have been laid off. Of the entire working-age population, 40% is either unemployed or working part-time...
Each immigrant, whether he crossed the Pacific on a 747 or the Rio Grande on a compatriot's shoulders, is bristling with old-fashioned ambitions. Each harbors a plan, or at least the rough vision of a better life. More and more head for the new ethnic metropolis. "Los Angeles," says Rand Corporation Demographer Kevin McCarthy, "has become the natural embarkation point to the U.S. There's no-question that it is the new Ellis Island." L.A. has no central processing facility like Ellis Island, or any Pacific Coast Statue of Liberty, no romantic symbol for every country's immigrants...
...double the average annual influx, may sneak into the country before 1983 is over. More than half a million will become permanent residents, joining the shadow population of 3.5 million to 6 million illegal immigrants already here. They come for jobs, scrambling through fences, hopping freight trains, wading the Rio Grande, or riding in trucks with smugglers, who charge as much as $2,000 a head. Said a Mexican baker in Phoenix who smuggled his wife and ten children across the border: "It was too hard to make a living in Mexico with so many kids. What you might earn...
...boyish and plain-spoken Motley relies on agile street smarts rather than deskbound knowledge, and on an instinctive gift for dealing with individuals rather than ideas. The son of an American oil executive and a British-Brazilian mother, he was born and grew up amid sun-splashed privilege in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the Citadel military school in Charleston, S.C., Motley joined the Air Force and was posted from 1965 to 1967 in Panama-his only Central American experience-and later in Alaska. There he switched careers and founded what has since become the largest real estate firm...