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George Bush pocketed a labor endorsement yesterday and said his drive for the White House was "all about creating jobs and opportunity." Underdog Michael Dukakis retorted that Bush's plan to slash the capital gains tax was a treat for the rich "and a trick for the rest...
Frezza, of Keverian's office, also cited pressing state issues as causes for reconvention--the largest of which was a Republican drive to override Dukakis' veto of a $91 million "local and additional assistance" package for cities and towns from surplus lottery receipts...
...Dukakis post-convention strategy also drew criticism for not supporting the national voter registration drive that Jackson sought funding for at the Democratic Convention...
...decision was made by the [Democratic National Committee] and Dukakis strategists not to fund a voter registration drive. The pressure of local party pols, elected officials--they didn't want to swell their districts with new voters," said western Mass. Jackson organizer Lisa Baskin. "If we had made a decision to register after the convention, there would be no question of victory in November...
...biggest surprise is the computer's built-in disk drive. Rather than rely on standard floppy disks, Next comes equipped with an erasable magneto-laser disk built by Canon and controlled by a proprietary chip. The 5 1/4-in. disk, which will be the first of its kind to come to market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four...