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Hungry Brazilians Are Getting Angry
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
By New World standards, Recife is an ancient city which lies along the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil's eastern-most bulge. A sea breeze relieves the heat from an equatorial sun, bouncing off cobble-stone streets and old buildings of yellowed stucco.
AWAY FROM THE waterfront is the swank Portuguese club where tropical flowers bloom and there is a swimming pool.
Among the fashionable homes in the neighborhood are those of absentee owners of Pernambuco state's vast plantations, worked by tenant farmers increasingly rebellious under the prodding of the Communist-led peasants league and the pressures of starvation brought on by the drought which grips the whole of northeast Brazil.
It is Brazil's third largest city and it is a haven for smugglers who have found the peddling of American cigarettes, razor blades and automobiles a better living than could be obtained on the parched plains inland.
The drought extends over eight northeastern states with a population of more than 20 million, and in all of them violence rides close to the surface.
HUNGRY PEASANTS were raiding market places, and in Pesqueira sacked a warehouse.
Pernambucu officials who seized all available supplies of black beans and corn for distribution to the peasants, estimated that in Recife warehouses there were 2,000 tons of beans controlled by speculators.
Brazilian officials meeting urgently, if belatedly, in Recife knew that only quick action could avert a major explosion among people who earned 50 cents a day and were being asked to pay 90 cents for a pound of beans.
THE SAME PRESSURES were upon President Kennedy and Brazilian President Joao Goulart when for eight and a half hours they conferred in Washington last month.
Out of that conference came promises of immediate U.S. help and long-range plans calling for each nation to contribute almost equally a total of $275 million for construction of roads, electric power and educational facilities and irrigation. The pressing need was now.
But the pressing As a first step, the United States announced this week that 10.000 tons of surplus U.S. beans would be shipped in by the quickest available transportation.
MEANWHILE, AMONG the peasants who cannot read and hence nothing of these plans for
their future, the fires were building. In Paraia state, a Peasant League official dropped off a bus a month or so ago, walked about a mile and then was shot down by three horsemen dressed as cowboys. His name was Joao Pedro and among the peasants his death made him a martyr.
When a search failed to turn up the killers, Peasant League leader Francisco Juliao, a practicing Marxist, fired off an angry letter to President Goulart.
"The agents of subversion are the big landowners who refuse to admit that times have changed. Brazilian democracy no longer stands for the fact that hired gummen murder organizers of labor unions . . ."
Exhibit Displays Press Pictures
The exhibit "Press Photos of Pedagogy," now in the Kansas Union, features more than 100 press pictures taken and processed by Ervin H. Schmidt, Pawnee Rock graduate student.
Schmidt was formerly director of elementary education at Garden City, and has served as managing editor of the "Kansas Teacher" magazine, and as an assistant professor of education at Bethel College.
His photo work has appeared in newspapers, school bulletins, magazines and educational journals.
Talent Show Set
The University Women's Club will sponsor a talent show at 8 p.m. tonight in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union.
The show will be in honor of the new University women.
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