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...technical gap has only partly been filled by a few trained Angolan blacks, the few whites who stayed behind and an influx of Communist helpers (mostly Cubans, Yugoslavs and East Germans). They have helped Luanda to limp along, but nonetheless most restaurants have closed for lack of food and fuel, mountains of uncollected garbage pile up, and street crime is on the increase-more because of desperation than avarice. Almost every day, the government paper Diario de Luanda rages against "reactionary elements whose antisocial behavior is sabotaging our revolution...
...cost of building reactors is skyrocketing: one nuclear plant in Michigan that was originally budgeted at $260 million will wind up costing $1.4 billion. And though nuclear plants can produce electricity more cheaply than plants burning coal or oil, the cost is going up: the price of uranium fuel has leaped from $7 a pound...
...nuclear forces had to pay a price: acceptance of three bills, hurriedly passed by the California legislature the week before the vote in a successful attempt to head off Proposition 15. The bills provide that new atomic plants can be built only if a reprocessing plant for spent fuel exists, and if the legislature certifies -simply by majority vote-that nuclear wastes will be disposed of safely. Thus, despite the defeat of Proposition 15, California becomes the first state to enact restrictions on nuclear construction. But the bills are far less restrictive than Proposition 15, and power companies seem prepared...
Despite the poor showing of the subcompacts, Detroit must steadily trim car size and weight if it is to meet a congressionally imposed gas economy standard of 27.5 miles per gallon by 1985 (v. an average of 17.6 m.p.g. for the 1976s). GM plans to introduce smaller, more fuel-efficient versions of its heavy standard-sized models this fall. Chrysler is currently offering a Japanese-made sub-compact called the Plymouth Arrow and intends to produce its own domestically built subcompact next year. Whether or not American motorists can ever learn to love them, smaller cars appear to be firmly...
...would attempt to stabilize world prices for various raw materials by maintaining buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp increases that fuel world inflation and the steep declines that bring producers to the brink of bankruptcy...