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...Rio Lobo, with John Wayne. Baker 100.8 and 10 April 22:8 only April...
...Paso Mayor Bert Williams, who has campaigned against American Smelting and has consequently been booed by workers fearful of the plant's shutting down, is going to Washington to seek federal help. Last week he was visited by the mayor of Juárez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. "He is concerned about the children on the Mexican side of the river," said Williams. "The Mexican government plans to start blood tests over there...
...even seeing what they buy. Others overlook restrictive covenants, tax liens and hair-raising warnings in the property reports that large developers must file with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Horizon Corp., the largest subdivider in New Mexico, is supplying future residents of its 150,000-acre Rio communities with neither water nor sewage systems. Southwest Land Corp. is developing Santa California City, N. Mex., without selling new owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights earlier, can dig up the yards at any time for silver, coal, or even gravel. Other items...
...also budgeted $7 billion over the next three years for public works, notably the Transamazonian Highway, part of a 9,000-mile network that aims to open up the largely uninhabited interior. In the hardscrabble northeast, it is about to pour in $800 million to help attract industry. Rio's favelas, the infamous slums that once contained 950,000 of the city's residents, now house about 450,000; the last favela is scheduled for demolition within the next five years, and the favelados are being moved to cheap government-built housing far from the center of town...
...Year's Eve, the white-clad throngs gather on Brazil's beaches after dark, more than a million people in Rio alone. They bear worldly offerings-lipstick, combs, jewelry, perfume, mirrors, flowers-to give to a vain, beauteous sea goddess. Called lemanjá, she is one of the pantheon worshiped by the various devotees of the pagan cults known as Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomble, or-to its detractors-as Macumba...