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...country's coffee, 90% of its newsprint, and huge quantities of corn, cotton and beans. Last week Brazil's most prosperous farm state was going up in flames-victim of one of the worst fires in any country's history. Scattered over 50,000 sq. mi., or more than half the state, the fires reduced vast forests of pine, cedar and eucalyptus to ashes, turned coffee plantations and pastures into scorched wastelands, devoured homes and destroyed thousands of head of livestock. Officials could only guess at the toll-uncounted millions in property damage, at least 78 people...
...Assisted Robin. So did some 25,000 other happy hunters fanned out across the 900-sq.-mi. valley last week for the opening of the month-long dove season, an annual bar-and-feathering ritual that features frolics on both sides of the Mexican border as well as bagfuls of succulent, bite-sized Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (legal limit; ten Zenaiduras per day per hunter). Before the four dove-taking weeks are up, some hundred thousand hunters will have bagged 4,000,000 birds. But it won't be easy...
...earlier this year, Aramco signed a new deal with reform-minded Prince Feisal, who has replaced ailing King Saud as the nation's de facto ruler. Aramco agreed to pay the Saudis $160 million in retroactive extra royalties and to surrender in stages its original 673,000-sq.-mi. concession, until all that will be left in 1992 will be a 20,000-sq.-mi. area. With the money and the land, the Prince intends to set up a nationalized oil company. Aramco keenly regrets losing its concessions but figures to keep its best oil producers and rationalizes that...
...MIDDLE EAST. The Cambridge-taught Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Angus Campbell Maclnnes, governs a 3,500,000-sq.-mi. archdiocese of 150,000 Christian Jordanese, Lebanese, Turks, Iranians, Egyptians, Sudanese and Greeks, and operates one of two seminaries which expressly seek to serve all branches of the communion-St. George's College in Arab Jerusalem. Maclnnes' church is in communion with one branch of Christianity involved in an unedifying project: the zenophobic Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church, which plans to drop 50 psalms from its revised Prayer Book because they mention Israel...
...there, Teodoro Moscoso, chief of the Puerto Rico Development Corp. (and now the director of the Alliance for Progress), fired off letters to leading U.S. hotelmen inviting them to come down. Only Hilton answered promptly, with a warm, friendly letter that began by greeting the Spanish-speaking Moscoso as "Mi estimado amigo." After that, Hilton had no difficulty signing a partnership deal with Puerto Rico to build the Caribe Hilton, now one of the most popular and profitable hotels in his chain...