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Steamy Iquitos, Peru's chief Amazon River port, was sleeping under a velvet equatorial sky when military boots first began to scrape along the streets. Tough little soldiers in suntans deployed briskly. In less than an hour, without firing a shot, they occupied the city's radio stations, telegraph office, and the big, grey prefectura building, Capitol of the jungled, Arizona-size department of Loreto...
...rebellion, Merino forced Odria to retaliate or lose his strongman's prestige. But Odria was denied any chance of easy attack. Merino claimed the whole Second (Jungle) Division of 12,000 men (the whole army numbers 55,000 to 60,000). He also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped in scores of jungle outposts, and even the Iquitos headquarters was isolated from Lima by 700 miles of mountains and jungles. Merino's strategy...
...must have wanted to squeeze some concentrated extract of meaning out of his story when he decided to employ the type of speech he used. But his efforts were not notably apparent. A single hearing left me, at least, with an impression of trackless confusion far deeper than the Amazon jungle where part of the play takes place...
Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally...
...result of his decision, one day last week Ed McCully, 28, was standing-with four other young Americans of similar background, age and motivation-on a sweltering riverbank at the Amazon's headwaters. Across the water they could see the green-hell jungle, where lurked the raw material of their mission: 2,000 members of the savage Auca Indian tribe...