Word: santar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luiz, where buzzards still feast in the streets, a modern fish-freezing plant is starting up, and across the state a new hydroelectric dam will soon boost the state's power capacity from 10,000 kw. to 235,000 kw. A group of ambitious jute traders in hustling Santarém has set up a factory that makes sacks from raw jute; it now employs 800 people. Hotels are going up almost as fast. This month a new 16 story hotel opens in Belém, the first major hotel in decades. Manaus also recently opened one-eight stories...
...Amazon's problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. But a new outlook has come to the great river basin, and with it a new optimism. "You're going to see a lot of big changes around here," says American Bishop James Ryan, who is stationed in Santarém. "If they can do this much in two years, think what they...
...Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed...
...Passport. Education is the bishop's prime concern, and he is constantly raising money to build new schools and supply existing ones. Every Wednesday evening in Santarém a group of teen-aged boys "who would be in police wagons in any other town" visit him. "We discuss everything from sex to satellites and they love it," says Ryan. "Besides a keen interest in Scripture they ask me such questions as 'Why do nuns cover their ears?' and 'What kind of medicine do priests take so they won't have to have a woman...
...Tiago's pet project at the moment is a seminary at Santarém to teach high school and junior college subjects. A 56-room building is going up: "I have 51 men working on it-as long as I stand there watching them." Ryan gets money for his projects on hat-passing trips to the U.S., where he inevitably confronts "a little old lady who asks, 'Do the natives wear clothes?' It takes all my will power to keep from snapping back, 'Yes, they do, you lascivious-minded old hypocrite.' " To people who find...