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...alcoholic. Politically, he seized every opportunity. After Timothy Hagan, 32, was elected chairman of Ohio's vote-heavy Cuyahoga County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote speaker at the state's largest political gathering in October, he was startled at how quickly Kennedy said yes. Old campaign friends who had not heard from the Senator for some time have begun receiving postcards from his trips, another sign that he wants to renew contact with his network around the country...
...middle class. Since 1976 the Anger Quotient has gone steadily downward. A decrease in violent crimes has been partly responsible. A walker in Central Park is as likely to be overrun by joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims have become a good deal smarter and more cautious. Apartment houses have installed closed-circuit TV and buzzer systems. In large office buildings, guards...
...fractious 263-member parliament. Eanes fired Soares when the fragile governing coalition came apart as a result of restiveness on the part of the supporting Social Democratic Center Party, a more conservative-leaning group than the Socialists. Soares did not want to go. As leader of the largest single parliamentary bloc, he felt that Eanes would have to call him back to mediate the standoff resulting from his departure, or else call elections not scheduled to be held until 1980. Soares, Portugal's first freely elected Premier since the April 1974 revolution, was as surprised as everyone else...
...than the Socialists, he has managed to survive all the vicissitudes of Portuguese politics, largely as a result of his administrative skills. Educated in Lisbon and London, Nobre da Costa has been called a "supertechnocrat." For many years an employee of the Champalimaud industrial empire, Portugal's second largest financial complex, he once served as Minister of Industry in Soares' government - at Eanes' insistence. Nobre da Costa is known as a free-enterpriser who gets things done no matter how many toes he has to step on. Says an auto executive: "I didn't exactly reach...
...automotive subsidiaries in Britain, France and Spain to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and Peugeot stock. If the deal is approved by the European governments involved-indeed, Britain may torpedo it -Peugeot would become the biggest auto manufacturer in Europe and fourth largest in the world, with sales right behind those of Chrysler itself. Chrysler would get out of the European market completely, except for its 15% share in Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide output. Additionally, in the past year the company...