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Only in the fertile soil of Sao Paulo state near what is now Americana did the transplanted prewar Dixie ways take hold. Still, the 94 Confederate ) families who stayed, their fortunes depleted, found homesteading a humbling experience. Few could afford the number of slaves they had back home. "When my mother was a girl here, she picked cotton right alongside the slaves, something she didn't do in Arkansas," drawls Charlotte Ferguson Costarelli, 83, a third-generation descendant...
...protected 20,000 Indians of the Tukano and other tribes over the past seven decades in remote northwestern Brazil. Time, however, is rapidly running out for both missionaries and Indians. The discovery of potentially vast lodes of gold and other minerals is transforming life in a wide region around Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, a small town in the Amazon jungle...
...outsiders: mining companies, free-lance prospectors and the Brazilian military. Bringing this simmering conflict to a head is the imminent retirement of Dom Miguel Alagna, 75, the autocratic bishop who for the past 20 years has reigned over the Arizona-size diocese from his unpretentious whitewashed brick residence in Sao Gabriel...
...angered by the forces aligned against his people, says, "The church taught us to turn the other cheek, but it taught us nothing about the cunning, the subtleties and lies the white man uses." Nevertheless, the 200 Indian leaders who attended a three-day summit meeting last month in Sao Gabriel with mining, government, military and Salesian representatives proved to be highly articulate -- patently a result of their missionary training. In florid speeches, they demanded land rights so they can levy royalties on gold that is mined, as well as better communications, health care and education. The government...
...everyone, however, has been delighted with McDonald's hamburger imperialism. In the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where McDonald's has 16 outlets, hundreds of local restaurant owners and tavernkeepers marched through the streets last May to protest the incursion of American junk food, shouting, "Down with hamburgers!" and "Long live the corner bar!" Despite such friction, McDonald's plans to open 200 foreign outlets this year...