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...airlines battle it out, the only clear winners will be their customers. Ellen Farmer, a legal secretary in Elgin, Ill., plans to take a break from the cold weather later this month by boarding Midway Airlines' $99 flight from Chicago to Orlando. Says she: "I don't think Midway would have had such a low fare if People Express hadn't forced them...
Another departing Washington official is Agriculture Secretary John Block, who announced that he would leave office in mid-February. One of just four of Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet appointees still on the job, Block, 50, is a likable West Pointer and Illinois hog farmer who had the misfortune of serving during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted...
Brazilian production has already been slashed from last year's harvest of 2 million tons to an estimated 1 million tons or less. Said Brazilian Coffee Farmer Paulo Ribeiro last week: "The trees are just dry sticks. They don't have any leaves. It will take three years for the trees to return to 60% of their previous production...
...time the government realized the extent of the crop failure, Brazil had only small reserves of the beans on hand. Some growers are now hoarding their supplies in hopes of higher prices, further exacerbating the shortage. Says Farmer Ribeiro: "I'm not selling for any price at the moment. For us, coffee is like gold...
Twenty days after her marriage to a gentle farmer named Batà (Claudio Bigagli), pretty Sidora (Enrica Maria Modugno) is startled to hear the baying of an animal in torment. It is Batà, who, as he explains, suffers fearful convulsions each night of the full moon. A scholar of his own illness, Batà instructs Sidora to lock herself away from him, but as the moon waxes he breaks through a window and attacks her. Come the next full moon, Sidora is prepared for the worst and the best. Her handsome cousin Saro (Massimo Bonetti) will protect her and, if God hears...