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...famous fine French wines have traditionally come from the Medoc, a region north of Bordeaux. True wine lovers think nothing of paying $80 for a 1982 bottle of Chateau Lafite or Chateau Mouton. But many discriminating connoisseurs are paying even more for a once obscure, less aristocratic wine: Chateau Petrus. Produced for more than 130 years but virtually unknown in the U.S. until the 1960s, Petrus comes not from the famed Medoc but from a region to the east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle for the acclaimed...
...head of South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit, during a press conference in Luanda gave a very different version of the foray, in which two commandos were killed (the others escaped...
...wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles who have graduated from Mouton Cadet (price: $3), the Bordeaux to search for is Chateau Petrus, which sells out as soon as it is available, at $120 to $150 a bottle. And while many French wines are no cheaper in France than they are in the U.S., one of the top shippers in Bordeaux, the Maison Dubos, reports a steadily increasing number of American customers...
...much as $2 from the cost of their three-liter bottles. The serious wine collector can find remarkable bargains among prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies, as well as vintages from lesser-known petits chateaux that have never exported before. In fact, the top vintages, such as a 1978 Chateau Petrus and a 1975 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, have resisted price-cutting. Even these are good buys at $82.95 and $79.95 respectively. As Sherry-Lehmann notes, "They will outlive most of us." -By Michael Demarest...
That left the contest between P.W. and Cornelius Petrus ("Connie") Mulder, 53, another ideological conservative, a party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...