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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that led to Somoza's abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper fashion without interventionism to let the Nicaraguans let their voice be heard in shaping their own affairs." In response, the junta announced that a delegation "at the highest level" would visit the U.S. this week to seek reconstruction...
Washington is sensibly encouraging the use of ethanol in spite of its modest technical problems as a replacement for gasoline. The Administration has already budgeted $11 million in loan guarantees for stills, and the Senate has approved a bill that would increase the funding to a full $500 million...
...Energy Department study has concluded that by 1982 the use of gasohol will have spread to the point where it will be supplanting about 3% of gasoline consumption. As output of alcohol rises to meet demand, its high cost-commercially distilled pure alcohol now sells for as much as $1.85 per gal.-will come down, making the price competitive with gasoline's. Eventually, alky fans hope, the U.S. will catch up with Brazil: by the early 1980s some 15% of all automobile fuel used there will be straight alcohol...
...prospect of so many Westerners all at once: 300,000 in three weeks next year, or more than half the number the city normally sees in an entire year. These tourists will have unprecedented freedom, if very little time, to move about on their own-and, interestingly, to use cameras and tape recorders in the cities they visit...
...refusing to give an official cost estimate, the Soviet government does say that income from sports lotteries, tour ism, commemorative stamp sales, souvenirs and television rights should more than cover building costs. The Soviets also point out that all the new Olympic facil ities will be put to good use after the games. The Olympic Village (see box), for example, will become a housing project for 12,000 lucky citizens. Indeed, the 1980 Olympics will be not just a sporting event, but a festival of architecture and technology. Some of the highlights...