Show u The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October I? I9H6 Producers’ protests cause food shortages in Brazil Kin Brazil the shelves and manufacturers out as people queue up — when party to said they could not keep up with newcomers try to butt in line or i ocliici- American Am-- I the demand of Brazil's 130 when irate shoppers discover auor Marry Shlaudeman to million hungry mouths the person infront of them is a As a result of that meat and speculator who intends to nlian writers religious leaders and businessmen con- milk producers — who believed his purchase for triple or versation ranged from politics prices were frozen too low for quadruple the price he paid to economics — until the dining them to make enough profit — Even certain kinds of food room doors opened to reveal a stopped slaughtering and milkand manufactured products are buffet dinner scarce When common sources ing in protest A guest hissed: “Look they Today some food lines start of protein dried up shoppers arc serving meat” snapped up dozens of cans of forming as early as 5 am it wasn't beef or outside markets Eggs some(i ranted tuna and started hoarding chicken nor were there deviled times are missing from store them Rumors about imminent eggs for that matter Those shelves for as long as three foods arc almost impossible to weeks shortages of coffee brass find because farmers and ranIn one line for rarely-foun- d cleaner sugar or toilet paper cuts of beef ven- are enough to drive thousands chers unhappy with a price freeze are dors held up pieces of uniden- of desperate housewives to the refusing to slaughter their live- tifiable meat and urged the SO store to stock up stock One wonders what people will people waiting to bid — a clear Hut there was ham and violation of the government-mandatehave to talk about when the turkey meatless canapes and shortages end price controls If they end quail's eggs — all indications Newspapers are filled with that :t diplomat’s wife stories about fights that break Finance Minister Dilson ' - I l’I )K JANEIRO At a cocktail - I re-se- ll low-quali- ty d forbidden from making easy if expensive purchases on the black market had spent hours in lines to fill the table Ai! over Brazil the main topic of conversation these days is food — not how to prepare it hut how to find it The government led by President Jose Sarney won lavish praise from consumers when it introduced the price freeze Feb 28 to put an end to loo percent annual infla- Funaro has accused producers the price control program and has ordered the importation of hundreds of thousands of tons of frozen meat from Europe the United States of sabotaging and Latin America Although milk supplies are back to normal — for now — meat is still scarce and the government which took special satellite pictures of Brazilian ranches to determine where the cattle were mayors have used citv funds to ordering “charter” truckloads of live of cattle cattle from neighboring for 5 “My wife went out at am three to went this morning and prices any couldn't get she Many observers believe the stores but she saw the eggs and meat only shortages will continue through were being sold for triple the the end of the year allowed price" said Waldemar The irony is that in Brazil dos Santos a building doorman one of the world’s most important exporters of soybeans chicken orange juice and other Paraguay sale at official products has ordered agricultural own the country’s people have to police to put with food up shortages while confiscate the beef for mancontinue to export producers datory slaughter of tons of chicken and Producers were angered thousands beef every day complying with Consumers were thrilled The national confiscation is contracts signed long before the began patterned after the action of one shortages The government has ordered small town mayor who last month sent deputies out to a stop to future exports but capture and slaughter all the analysts said the order would be cattle they could find Other as difficult to enforce as the one machinegun-totin- g immediate slaughter 752-393- 5 HELMUT KOCH Bernina Repair Service 1041 EmI 20th North NORTH LOGAN UT 14321 rACTORY TRAINED IN SWITZERLAND SAFEWAY tion At first the controls worked Prices have risen only 637 percent over the past seven months But consumers suddenly found they had more money to spend Meat and milk con- sumption skyrocketed consumer goods disappeared from Costa Rica heels up police forces SAN JOSE Costa Rica semi-automat- rifles ic lPK (UPI) Costa Rica's security forces once carried only billy clubs to deal with the occasional ruffian aud screwdrivers to remove the license plates of frequent traffic offenders Today they carry — The full armament and uniforming of the Civil and Rural Guardsmen suggest that Costa Rica is preparing for something The new preocupation with can be seen on the streets Olive green transport m 'truss tnrtEMS m hdsh tine trucks carry uniformed who sit casually rifles poised Unthreatening as they seem the image brings to mind the military patrols and coups-d’etonce so popular in Central and South America In all of Latin America fear among rural ranchers and politicians has escalated because of guardsmen but with at terrorism and guerrilla warfare In Costa Rica a major factor in a growing market for security goods and services has been waves of terrorism perpetrated principally by foreigners as a result of Costa Rica’s greater involvement in the regional conflict Th e lies on country southern border Nicaragua's and although Costa Rica de- clared neutrality in 1983 the northern part of the country has been used as a base camp by counterrevolutionaries trying to overthrow the Sandinista government Muring the last two years there have been numerous border clashes involving Contras Sandinistas and Costa Rican public security forces Therefore Costa Rica which lias no Army has begun militarizing the Civil and Rural Guards responsible for patrolling the borders Between 1982 and 1985 US military aid to Costa Rica went from S21 million to $112 million for weapons ammo and training Last year Green Berets trained liHK) Civil Guardsmen in counter insurgency and the Nicaraguan WE’VE GOT ’EM! Manufacturer's counterterrorism San Jose has become a center of international intrigue where mercenaries fortune soldiers al of forces and rebel leaders meet to exchange information and make arms deals "This city has more spies than Beirut” said the leader of members SEVEN DAYS A WEEK! one contra group The Nicaraguan Revolutionary Effective thru October 14f 1986 Armed Forces iFARN) San Jose's newest hotel The Aurola Holiday Inn looks like something out of the movie Casablanca” The lobby is full of Costa Rican public security ‘ officials businessmen short-haire- Double Savings on all manufac- ” coupons up to Hirer’s " Cents-oJ- f LOO Coupons 100 and up redeemed at face value SAVE WITH SAFEWAY’S NEW EVERYDAY LOW PRICES! US personnel and young men who don't war' 'u identify themselves and em nassy Safeway Offers d iMi say they are “military advisers” A year ago foreign reporters ii Hi‘111 Oil i jr t Vi walked into the Casa Presiden-cia- i with a wave of the hand Now bags are searched and passports are scrutinized MMNN4 'ms tr r '! I it 'f You work an honest day You get an honest deal |