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ATTENTION, ANGOLANS! read Portuguese newspaper ads last week. ALL PERSONS WHOSE NAMES ARE LISTED HERE SHOULD GO TO THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY ON A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. The scores of people listed were refugees who had been airlifted to Lisbon from the former Portuguese province in 1975, when civil war threatened their lives and the prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some...
Even some Portuguese merchants and farmers whose property was expropriated by the Neto government are seeking to return. At a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Lisbon, set up to house would-be returnees, Dulce Pereira da Silva, 54, last week was waiting for a flight to take her back to the village of Musulo in northeast Angola, where she once owned a general store. Says she: "My son, who is a mechanic, is already working and I've had letters and phone calls from the family and they say everything is all right there." Angelino...
...search for charisma, plus the near-universal insistence on a "pastoral" Pope, concentrates continued attention upon Corrado Ursi, 70, a popular shepherd in Naples whose easygoing air and ample girth inspire repeated comparison to Pope John XXIII. Close behind him in the early discussions is Salvatore Pappalardo, 60, also an effective pastor in Sicily...
...hordes of vacationers-retired couples, hirsute backpackers, whole families loaded down with bikes, fold-up baby strollers and other paraphernalia -swarmed into the nation's airports and almost overnight cured the airlines' lingering problem of too many empty seats. While it was a boon to the industry, whose planes have been setting records in passenger loadings (63% of capacity) and earnings (expected to be about $1 billion this year), the summer of the discounts was also a season of horrendous delays and deep discontent for the carriers' staple customer, the crowd-weary, briefcase-toting business...
...That is also well above the Rand Corp.'s estimate, which puts the reserves within a range of 1,700 billion bbl. to 2,300 billion bbl. Odell argues that the size of some known fields has been greatly underrated, notably the North Sea and Orinoco Oil Belt, whose resources he believes are even "greater than those of Saudi Arabia...