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Show Page B2 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, May 8, 1990 Migrante un&blo to And wmii in BmzWum itfes PAULO, Brazil (AP) -Thousands of people who came to industrialized southern Brazil seeking work are now returning home, frustrated by the rising unemployment the government's austerity plan has wrought. "I arrived here with almost nothing, and I'm going back with less," said Jose Loreno Filho, 30, as he prepared to board a bus late last week at Sao Par'-'- ? huge Tiete bus station. He had a ticket home to a tiny village in impoverished Alagoas state on the northeastern coast. Loreno Filho, who had once worked a small plot of land in Alagoas, scrimped together about : SAO streets aren't paved with gold the way I imagined. Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial and financial center, has attracted millions of migrants during the past two decades. Most came from the northeast to escape that region's grinding poverty. But since Collor's economic plan was announced, the stream of economic refugees has been at least temporarily reversed. "Our buses to the northeast have been packed for the past six weeks. And when buses from the region arrive at the station, they've been almost empty," said Elias Perreira, manager of the Sao Geraldo bus with relatives and hoped to earn money to bring his wife and four children to join him. But on March 16, Brazil's new president, Fernando Collor de Mel-llaunched his austerity plan in a bid to defeat record inflation that reached nearly 5,000 percent over the past year. While the initiatives, which infreeze on $115 clude an billion in bank deposits, have drastically reduced the cost of living, businesses have fired hundreds of thousands of workers. "I walked the streets for the past two months, and there aren't any o, th Even some longtime residents of months ago from the northeastern state of Piaui, recently lost his the city are packing their bags. . Jose Francilino, 40, brought his construction job. "I've got a wife and two young family here from the northeastern kids back there, so I'd always state of Pernambuco in 1977. He been able to find planned on going back. But I didn't said he'd always think it would be so soon," he said. work. "I'll be happy to see my family, One week after Collor took office, but there's not much work to be he was fired from his longthough, had other than subsistence farm- time job as a metalworker. He was ing," he said. now heading to Pernambuco. Ana Correia Salles, a local social worker, said 99 percent of construc"I never thought I'd be leaving, tion workers in the area' are but I don't know what else to do. most sleep and cat My father still works the land, and at the job site: "If they lose their I wrote to tell him we'd be needing job, they lose everything, so it's a place to stay for awhile," he said either live on the streets or return as his wife tried to quiet the younghome." est of their four children. line, the major company servicing the northeast from Sao Paulo, a city of 7 million people. He said the movement to the northeast is now only slightly above l, normal. But in the company was carrying 1,700 passengers a day, twice the normal number. It needed 11 extra buses a day to accommodate the crunch. Many of the returning migrants were working in construction, which was especially hard hit by Collor's program. An estimated 300,000 construction workers were laid off naof tionwide, more than one-thithem in Sao Paulo. Edmilson Mariano de Oliveira, 27, who arrived in Sao Paulo eight jobs," said Loreno Filho. "The $50 and bus fare to come to Sao Paulo in early March. He stayed mid-Apri- rd Syria refuses to attend Arab summit in Iraq - DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Syria announced Monday it will not attend an Arab summit in Baghdad, capital of its archrival Iraq, hindering efforts to patch up the feud that has blocked Arab unity. ; Officials said Damascus instead proposed that the foreign ministers of the 22 Arab League members meet in Tunis to decide on an alternative summit site. In Amman, Jordan's King Hussein insisted the summit be held in Baghdad as planned, reflecting a deepening rift in the Arab world over the issue. "The upcoming Arab summit will be held in Baghdad and there is no intention whatsoever to change the location to somewhere else," Hussein said in a statement broadcast Jordan Television. by state-ru- n "I hope that Arab leaders will work to make this upcoming summit a successful one and I also hope that our brethren in Syria and Iraq will reconcile soon," said Hussein. The Syrian decision stymied efforts led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to mediate a reconciliation, between Syrian President Hafri ez Assad and Iraqi President Hussein. They are the Arab world's most bitter foes. The official Syrian Arab News Agency quoted Foreign Minister Farouk as telling Arab Chadli League Secretary-GenerKlibi: "Fixing a venue for the televisions suxHo appliances IMe Shopping More Convenient, Apply For Your Silo Credit Card uuuu uu uuu U UJ a inrfteos EiteffijMB Emu Today! CL0SE0UT! SPECIAL I WE I BOUGHT StK I PtacttAst! yJJ THEM ALL! Sad--dai- , al summit without prior consultations... has cast a negative atmos- phere in advance of the conference, and this certainly is not in the interest of the Arab nation." Sharaa, SANA added, suggested that "the Arab League Council convene to conduct consultations on a convenient venue and date for the summit and to agree on the topics to be discussed at the forum." The council groups 21 foreign ministers plus the Palestine Liberation Organization's political department chief, who is regarded as a foreign minister in the Arab world. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have been making strenuous efforts to persuade Assad to go to Baghdad and end his feud with Saddam. That dispute and Assad's feud with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat are the main obstacles to Arab efforts to forge a new unity after years of fragmentation. Arafat has been at odds with Assad since 1983, when Syrian-backe- d radical Palestinian factions mutinied against Arafat and drove his guerrillas out of their last Lebanese stronghold.. Najibullah picks prime minister ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghan President Najibullah on Monday named the governor of Herat province, who was nearly killed in a rebel ambush in April, to head his Communist-styl- e government, Radio Kabul reported. The state-ru- n radio also said a rocket attack on the Afghan capital left one person dead and two wounded. The broadcast, monitored in Islamabad, blamed the rocket d rebels. attack on Fazle Haq Khaliq Yaar's appointment as prime minister follows on the heels of Sunday's promotion of Sultan Ali Keshtmand to the U.S.-arme- The Herat governor was seriously wounded in April when rebels staged a surprise attack on a ceremony at which thousands of guerrilla fighters were to surrender. 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