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...hotel was built on the site of Portugal's most tragic love affair. In the 14th century, Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the beautiful Spanish noblewoman Dona Inês. They lived with their two children until one January night in 1355, when Pedro's father, King Afonso IV, fearing that Inês' Spanish brothers were plotting to usurp his throne, had Inê murdered in the garden. When the inconsolable Dom Pedro became king in 1357, he had Inês' body put on the throne and forced the country's nobles to kiss her hand...
...Saturday morning in June 1998, homicide Inspector Jose Afonso Coelho of the Lisbon police is notified that the nude body of a teenage girl has been found on a nearby beach. Along with Carlos Pinto, his new partner, Coelho begins to investigate and quickly uncovers some interesting complications. The victim, Catarina Sousa Oliveira, was the daughter of a powerful, well-connected local attorney and his second wife and had already, despite her tender years, demonstrated a precocious fondness for sex and drugs. In fact, she had recently seduced her mother's lover and arranged the tryst so that the mother...
...people" is sheer baloney. In the next U.S. presidential election, the world community should send observers to make sure the whole process takes place without any irregularities. Brazil should cash in and export thousands of its electronic ballot boxes to teach Uncle Sam how to count votes. MARCILIO AFONSO Recife, Brazil...
...unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...
...efforts fail, however, the disease could continue its eastward march and strike such major coastal cities as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which are teeming with favelas, or slums. "That would be disastrous," says Afonso Infurna Jr., vice president of the Brazilian commission. "Health and hygiene conditions are already poor, and the disease could spread rapidly." Although Infurna and other commission officials predict they will contain the infection, they admit that the cost of treating a full-scale epidemic would be high -- on the order of $600 million...