DATE: Thursday, August 14, 1997             TAG: 9708140385

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Focus

SOURCE: BY MICHAEL ASTOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: MARABA, BRAZIL                    LENGTH:   28 lines

FOCUS: AMAZON DEFORESTATIONFIVE YEARS AFTER BRAZIL HOSTED THE FIRST EARTH SUMMIT, AMAZON RAIN FORESTS AREAGAIN BEING DESTROYED AT AN ALARMING RATE. THE OPTIMISM OF 1992 HAS GIVEN WAY TO A REALIZATION THAT THE PROBLEM IS FAR FROM SOLVED.

[This story is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS

This land in Paragominas, Brazil...

Children play on a pile of lumber from the Amazon rain forest...

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THE RAIN FOREST'S NEGLECTED COUSIN

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