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    ENVIRONMENT-AMAZON: Infrastructure Plans Threaten Amazonia

    InterPress Service | ATT EDS: Please relate the following to 'ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Indigenous Communities Fend Off Gold Miners', moved from Brazil/ Boa Vista, Brazil - Soldiers dressed in olive-green camouflage uniforms sit high up in the cabins of three bright yellow bulldozers, maneouvering their way up the uneven dirt r

    June 25, 1997
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    Indians Threaten Mass Suicide to Safeguard Oil-Rich Land

    National Catholic Reporter - The Independent Lay-Edited Catholic Newsweekly | Los Angeles - It was a collision of wildly contrasting worlds that occurred on May 6: in a Beverly Hills corporate office Roberto Cobaria, the council president of 23 communities of the indigenous U'wa people of Colombia, sang a song in the language of his people to three top executives of the Occidental Oil and Gas Corporati

    June 20, 1997
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