Word: atlanta
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Authorities suspect many heat deaths go unreported as such; they are registered as fatalities from heart attack, stroke or other illness. Healthworkers will eventually compare actual deaths with normal mortality statistics to get a more accurate figure. On that basis, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta will compare this year's toll with a record of more than 1,700 deaths in the scorching summer of 1980. This year air conditioning is more prevalent. But the nation also has more heat-susceptible elderly people -- and there may still be more sweltering weeks ahead...
...Orleans convention was supposed to reveal the real George Bush to the American electorate. In that, it certainly succeeded, both for better and for worse. On Thursday night the Vice President delivered a stirring acceptance speech that was the equal of Michael Dukakis' oratorical triumph in Atlanta. In a strong, I'm-the-guy-in-charge-now voice, Bush fused masterful metaphors and political put-downs with his campaign themes of family, freedom and the future. He adroitly portrayed himself as both the heir to Reaganism and his own man, ready to take his seat at the big desk...
Bush also succeeded at a task that eluded Dukakis in Atlanta: to provide a telling glimpse of the private man beneath the public mask. "I may not be the most eloquent," Bush announced with gentle but revealing words that momentarily belied the disclaimer. "I may sometimes be a little awkward," he continued, "but there's nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don't -- the ones who raise the family, pay the taxes, meet the mortgage. I hear them and I am moved, and their concerns...
...thing," said Toshio Mizushima, a correspondent for the Tokyo-based daily Yomiuri Shimbun, "that the Japanese viewers and readers are very eager to know what is really going on in this election." So are the Europeans. The C-SPAN network's video verite coverage of the podium in Atlanta was beamed by satellite to 22 European countries, prompting hundreds of viewers in those countries to write to the C-SPAN offices in Washington. Interest in President Reagan's farewell speech was so high in Britain that the BBC broadcast it live from New Orleans in a 3 1/2-hour special beginning...
Most of the foreign journalists preferred covering the Democrats to the Republicans. "Jesse Jackson saved the whole convention in Atlanta," said Turkish Reporter Turan Yavuz. "If Bush would have announced his vice- presidential choice earlier, we'd all be walking around the French Quarter...