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...discovered that they love it every bit as much as people in Peoria do. So Green Giant joined with a cooperative of 7,000 farmers in the South of France to raise and process the stuff. This year the combine will sell almost 1 million cases of Géant Vert corn throughout Europe...
Even as Italy's government was falling, Portugal was getting a new one, thus ending a 41-day political crisis that began when Premier Mário Soares' minority Socialist government lost a vote of confidence. President António Ramalho Eanes had asked Soares to try again. After failing to work out accords with the right-of-center Social Democrats and the Communists, Soares last week succeeded in forming an alliance with the conservative Center Social Democrats (C.D.S.). The Socialists' 102 votes in the 263-seat legislature together with the 41 votes of the C.D.S. will...
There are also ominous signs that the army is becoming more polarized, with many regular officers moving to the right. After conservative General António Pires Veloso was recently removed as commander of the Northern Military Region, Oporto, Portugal's second largest city, was racked by violent demonstrations and bombings. In scenes reminiscent of the post-revolutionary turmoil, three Communist headquarters were destroyed...
Soares and his Cabinet will remain in office as a caretaker regime until the President, General António Ramalho Eanes, names a new Premier to form a government. If a government cannot be formed, new elections must be called. One possibility is that Eanes will ask Soares himself-or possibly an independent-to form a government made up largely of technocrats. Such a nonpolitical Cabinet might be able to fashion an economic salvation plan that the parties would have to accept if a strong case was made that the future of the country was at stake. In any case...
...expand to--began to drink a lot, too. They sat, dry of new ideas, among mounds of cuisinards, trash mashers, yogurt-makers, decorator cologne sets, soap-on-a-rope, leisure suits, pulsating shower heads, vibrabeds, three-dimensional chess sets, digital watches, coffee-table pictorial history books, pet rocks, ant farms, pastel toothpicks, statuettes inscribed "world's greatest mom" and world's greatest dad," incense holders, lava lamps, shampoos smelling like exotic fruit, toy rifles with plastic arsenals big enough to defeat plastic armies, desk organizers, and of course metal-and-plastic Christmas trees. And they had no idea what...