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Redistricting is another factor that should work to the Republicans' advantage. On the basis of the 1980 census, many Democratic strongholds in the industrial Midwest and Northeast lost House seats to more conservative Sunbelt states. "Redistricting had to break our way," says Republican Congressional Campaign Committee Director Nancy Sinnot, although she admits that shrewd gerrymandering by Democratic state legislatures cut down on potential G.O.P. gains. Republicans have been active and successful in recruiting strong candidates for the 17 new districts in the South and West. This year there are 57 districts where no incumbent is running. "Where...
...Wind power remains a tantalizing possibility. The northeast trade winds are consistent and often strong, and seven small windmills have been installed on ranches and in small businesses. Long-range generating capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts, or up to 25% of the state's requirements. But no windmill is now cost competitive with oil. An 80-megawatt facility on Oahu, scheduled for completion in 1984, currently projects a loss of 7? on every kilowatt-hour...
...Beirut fired their weapons into the air. Others detonated grenades in empty lots, while cars roared up and down the streets flying Lebanese flags and waving huge pictures of the President-elect. Gemayel held court at the family home, a 300-year-old estate at Bikfaya in the mountains northeast of Beirut, for two days before returning to the city to consult with other Christian officials...
Bucks Harbor Air Force Station. Sitting at the base of 260-ft.-high Howard Mountain on the scenic coast of Maine 160 miles northeast of Portland, the base was abandoned by the Air Force last February and turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department. The Government intends to sell off 48 acres containing 27 three-and four-bedroom ranch houses built in 1959, a barracks, a dining hall facing the ocean, a former noncommissioned officers' club and a recreation hall with a lounge, bowling alley and small indoor track. A local group known as Howard Mountain...
...part of the federally owned parkland has been hit harder than California's Angeles National Forest, 693,000 acres of rugged, thickly wooded wilderness in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles. The forest has long been a catch basin for urban crime. Says Administrative Officer Roger Fischer of the U.S. Forest Service: "It's the biggest dumping ground for dead bodies and stolen vehicles I've ever seen." During the first five months of the year, authorities reported eleven rapes, 27 aggravated assaults, 66 burglaries and 139 thefts and robberies, including 14 stolen cars...