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Democratic Presidential Front Runner Walter Mondale also flew to Minneapolis last Thursday, countering the President with his own news conference. He attacked Reagan for offering empty rhetoric - "voodoo education" policies, he has called them -for a crisis that the former Vice President believes requires generous federal aid. "He's willing to fight to the death on the MX," Mondale said, "but he won't lift a finger for education." Not since Sputnik's triumphant flight in 1957 rattled Americans' faith in their public schools has there been such a clamorous national debate on education. With dueling...
...Sunbelt city, stretched and shaped by the automobile into a half urban, half suburban archipelago. Says Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments: "There has never been one huge predominant city. There have been conglomerations." Most of what commonly passes for L.A. lies inside the generous boundaries (4,083 sq. mi.) of Los Angeles County. The county, bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, contains lots of undeveloped, unincorporated scrubland as well as 82 towns and cities. The largest, of course, is the City of Los Angeles, which consists of 464 sq. mi. in the center...
...cheapskate airline had reason to be generous. The British government earlier that day had given People Express the final go-ahead to start cut-rate transatlantic service, and the passengers at the party were about to board a Boeing 747 for the inaugural flight to London. The one-way price: $149, or little more than half the lowest regular coach fare...
...enchanted tropical paradise. Its gentle, unusually tolerant melange of Creole, Indian, Chinese and Javanese inhabitants were blessed with rich farming lands, rivers teeming with fish and one of the world's largest bauxite-producing economies. Upon Suriname's independence in 1975, the Dutch promised a generous allowance of $100 million annually for 15 years, giving the newly formed nation one of the highest per capita incomes in the developing world ($2,500). One in every three citizens owned a car; living rooms were stocked with video recorders. When the police shot a demonstrator during an isolated outburst...
...Palais did afford increased seating for citizens of Cannes, who contribute a third of the festival's $1.3 million annual budget and reap many more millions of tourist dollars. The gentry could be generous to films from abroad, including Martin Ritt's U.S. entry Cross Creek, a dewy-eyed swamp drama starring Mary Steenburgen as Novelist Marjorie Rawlings, and Carlos Saura's dance film, Carmen. But for the four French films in competition-Jean Becker's One Deadly Summer, Patrice Chereau's The Wounded Man, Jean-Jacques Beineix's The Moon in the Gutter...