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Stunned, Captain Gilberto da Silva gave a rescuer his tie. "I won't need this," he said. "I am going to die." He was wrong-though he was seriously injured-and authorities at week's end were anxiously awaiting his report. Early speculation was that the fire had started in the rear toilet section of the aircraft, possibly from a short circuit. If the pilot could have kept the plane airborne for only 90 seconds more, said Orly officials, their fire equipment might have quickly doused the flames and saved many lives...
...writer-defendants, all in their 30s and all mothers of small children, are Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Isabel Barreno, both published novelists who do research for Portugal's Ministry of Economics, and Maria Teresa Horta, a well-known poet who edits the literary supplement of a Lisbon newspaper. The book they put together from their writings-they collaborated through an exchange of views in letters and at weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published...
...Letters, it is all women. The social institution that shackles them worst is the role of mother. Society idealizes the role, of course, but the idealization masks the slavery of it." The new book is broader than this, however. "It has many themes," asserts the highly intellectual Velho da Costa. "Passion, oppression and especially love." But the more emotional Horta insists that "the book has one great theme, and that is the liberation of women...
...Velho da Costa, by contrast, is more charitable toward males: "Society and social oppression are not made by men alone, but by historical structures and thought patterns that oppress all of us." Moreover, she sees dangers in uncompromising militancy. "I value the feminist movement, as I value all activist movements that contribute to the struggle for human freedom," she says. "But in their fury and their aggressiveness and their mono-mindedness, women in the movement are proving just as 'phallic' as men, and that is what they should want to avoid. If we fight fire with fire...
Though the fans loved every side-swiping, hard-fought (final score: America 4, Vasco da Gama 3) minute of it, autobol buffs like Driver-Stockbroker Ivan Silva suggest that the most spectacular crackups are yet to come. Silva foresees the day when huge throngs will watch as many as 22 drivers battling on a 300-yd. field in the latest high-powered machines. "They will be 300 horsepower cars," says Silva. "With big cars and a big field, we could get much higher speeds. It will be dangerous! The public will love...