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...result of a two-year drought that has all but stilled the hydroelectric system, which supplies 92% of the country's energy. Unfortunately, it occurred as the economy was already struggling with the effects of a slowdown that began in 1977, when earnings from key exports, especially cocoa and coffee, dropped 40%. Without electricity, industrial capacity has plunged an estimated 35%. Construction is off 50%. Total business losses are officially placed at $80 million so far this winter, out of an annual G.N.P. of $10 billion. Lacina Coulibaly, president...
DIED. Kurt Debus, 74, German scientist who was director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear...
...audience finished their creme de cocoa in Florentine baskets, Ford criticized the length of the presidential primary season, which he said numbed the populace. Carter bemoaned the "hodgepodge of registration laws" which he said were "so confusing even to a college student, but particularly to an uneducated Black or Hispanic person [that] it is almost impossible to figure out how, in a convenient way, to become registered...
...widespread at all, has become more attractive in these hard economic times. With proper dietary balancing, the experts say, the animals will get the nutrition they need and the meat flavor will not be affected perceptibly. Of course, if some day steak starts tasting like tea and bacon like cocoa, consumers may have only the Ding Dong diet to blame...
...addition the course covers in detail the agricultural and pathological aspects of the cocoa species, the complicated processing of the beans for marketing and the international chocolate market...