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...Tories went down to defeat dogged primarily by one issue: a proposed hike of 18? per gal. in gasoline taxes. The gas hike was the key article in the Tory budget that was rejected by Parliament last December-the immediate cause of elections. Said Secretary of State David MacDonald, one of three Clark ministers who lost their Commons seats: "There was a feeling we were administering castor oil; people never take very kindly to castor oil." Newfoundland's John Crosbie, the Finance Minister who conceived the budget, was bitter. Said he: "There has never been an election where...
...Kennedy says the president shouldn't be re-elected "just because he happened to be standing there when his foreign policy fell apart." Kennedy opposes draft registration; Kennedy supports a random system to draft both men and women. He supports the president's requested 3-per-cent hike in defense appropriations but draws the line elsewhere; he is for developing the concept of the MX missile, but not deploying it, for a foreign policy that stresses preventive measures and not one that "says Soviet troops are unacceptable and then accetpts them...
...When we experience an increase in cost, we split it with the students, so that, for example, if the cost went up $500 we might pay $250 of it," Lyman said. She added that the percentage of the hike the College will pay has not yet been determined...
Seven other sulfur vents mustardize the air above the village of, hah!, Upper Galway. A two-mile hike leads to the Great Alp Waterfalls, a deafening, 90-ft. pour that barefoot Guide Jim Corbet acknowledges is "plenty strong." Corbet's rates ($6 round trip), like taxi fares, are set by the government. Not much else is regulated except the sale of land; this has been planned so that outsiders who build homes will not find themselves in white ghettos...
...Emerald Isle has one of the few playable golf courses (eleven holes) in the Lesser Antilles. Its beaches are of black volcanic sand; the only white sand beach can be reached by a mountain hike or a charter sail. While the food is more plain than fancy, there is one excellent restaurant, Café le Cabotin. The best show in town is at the Vue Pointe, a 40-room bungalow-cottage complex. The hotel becomes le tout Montserrat on Wednesday nights, when steel bands like the Montserrat Symphony perform...