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...Brazil, for example, expects all of its citizens to be driving on gasohol with a 4-to-1 mix by the end of 1980, at a saving of about $500 million on its oil import bill. Moonshiners can distill a lower proof ethanol from such materials as corn, sugar cane, potato peelings, even garbage or grass. Says Victor Ray, an alcohol expert at the National Farmers Union "It is about as complicated as making bread. We tell farmers that if they cannot do it, their wives certainly...
...smaller, more secure sessions, where he can discuss issues at greater length. Attending the first of these at the Copernicus Senior Citizens Center in Chicago, Kennedy gave a speech touting his national health care program. Silvester Bonnis, 72, a retired factory worker, came up to the podium with his cane to say that if he ever had to go to the hospital, "it would take all that I have saved." Seeing his point made so poignantly, Ted urged, "Pour it on, Silvester...
...assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar!" (God is great). After four strokes, the young convict screamed out for the doctor. After...
...Negros Occidental province of the southern Philippines, children with flowers carried a small white coffin along a country road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital and then to a witch doctor. Neither could arrest the symptoms of malnutrition that killed Juan, at the age of seven months...
...from Kontum all the way to Saigon. Last year Vietnamese security police burst into his home in the middle of the night, seized him and his two brothers and beat them, warning that they had to leave Viet Nam or be killed. Now he is a refugee, working sugar-cane fields in China and owning nothing but the clothes he wears...