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There are a number of package tours, notably "Sportugal," which include golf, tennis and big-game fishing, hotel room and rental car for seven days for $360, and a wine tour that takes the visitor through the vineyards to the great port houses of Oporto. The best way to see the country is to rent a car and stay at the attractive, state-run pousadas. Some of them are in modernized medieval buildings and cost around $27 a day for double room and bath. One of the handsomest, Pousada dos Loios, is in the south central town of Évora...
Although the final tally was not due to be announced until this week, it seemed almost certain that the largest number of seats would be won by the biggest of the black parties, the United African National Council (U.A.N.C.). As the party's chief, Muzorewa, 54, who is both an ordained Methodist clergyman and a leader of the majority Shona tribe, would be called on to form the new government...
...Ceauşescu himself holds an impressive number of the levers of power in Rumania. Since he became Communist Party boss in 1965, the brusque and stocky onetime shoemaker has not only had himself designated President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces but also chairman of the State Council and the Defense Council...
...many cities and suburbs, the issue is catching on because inflation is combining with a diminishing apartment market to bloat rents. Washington, D.C.; Montgomery County, Md.; Boston, Brookline and Cambridge, Mass, and a number of small towns in New Jersey have enacted rent controls since the early 1970s. In the past twelve months, bills calling for some form of controls have been introduced in the state legislatures of New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Hawaii and Pennsylvania. A tenants' association in Miami Beach, where some rents have doubled in five years, is trying to bring back the controls that the city...
...even in California the science of photovoltaics is in its infancy, and the cells remain expensive and not very efficient; the 1,500 sq. ft. of units required to power a typical one-family home would cost at least $40,000. Electrical power is measured in the number of watts that can be generated from a single power source. The cost of building and maintaining a plant to generate a single watt is about $1 from a coal-powered utility and about $1.25 from a nuclear power plant. The cost of a watt from photovoltaic cells has come down from...