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...when he was found dead last week in his small apartment in New Hope, Pa. He was fully dressed under the bedcovers. An autopsy was inconclusive. In recent years, however, he battled depression. An activist to the end, fighting over the environment and Nicaragua, he found the complacent hum of the present no match for the percussive past...
...Washington was able to win two terms by putting together coalitions combining virtually all black voters with about one-fifth of whites. But that coalition broke apart last week as 91% of whites opted for Daley and 94% of blacks cast their ballots for Sawyer. Turnout was a ho-hum 64.5% (compared with 74% in 1987), and the falloff in black districts was an especially sharp...
...government-subsidized mega-project to rebuild the country's cranky telephone system virtually from scratch. As one of the main contractors on the project, Italtel will supply most of the basic equipment, while AT&T will provide the know-how, software and supercomputers that will make Italian phone lines hum efficiently. The job may be worth several billion dollars to Ma Bell...
...RATTLE AND HUM (Island). A diary of the band's discovery of a mythical musical America. A concert album like no other...
...will take more than a change at the top to restore the company's tarnished luster. It will take a change of heart. What the Met needs is fewer circuses and more bread. It is an old theater adage that you can't hum the scenery. If only the Temple of Ptha could sing...