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After ten months of being feted in six cities, the 57 members of the Democratic Party site-selection committee finally announced last week that Atlanta will be host to the 1988 Democratic National Convention. The city that Democratic Chairman Paul Kirk called the "hub, heart and capital of the South" offered the party $15 million in public and private funds as bait. The ^ choice also reflects the Democrats' renewed efforts to appeal to Southern voters, who unseated five Republican Senators last fall and who will play an important role in 1988 with a first-ever regional presidential primary...
...host Explorers were more than gracious to their guests from Cambridge, as the Crimson emerged from Kirk Pool in Philadelphia with a well-earned 64-49 victory in front of 50 spectators...
...financially depressed New Orleans, it was an embarrassment of riches. First the city was notified by the Republican National Committee that it had been selected as the site of the 1988 G.O.P. Convention, a three-day bonanza that should generate $50 million in business. Then Democratic Chairman Paul Kirk said his committee (which had just sampled the Cajun cuisine and first- class hotels) might also choose the City That Care Forgot as its party's convention site...
...that New Orleans had already signed a contract giving the Republicans six weeks of unlimited access to the Superdome before the convention opens on Aug. 15. Since the Democrats are to begin their convention on July 17, the clause prevents New Orleans from being host to both parties. Kirk charged that the G.O.P. was holding New Orleans "hostage." But the Republicans held the city to its contract, and the Democrats are now leaning toward Houston...
Last week Turner put out the fuse by selling 35% of his company to a group of 14 cable-TV operators and Financier Kirk Kerkorian for $550 million. Turner will use the money to buy back those troublesome preferred shares. Kerkorian, the former owner of 50.1% of MGM/UA, and the cable operators will gain five seats on Turner Broadcasting's eleven-member board of directors. Managing a narrow escape, Turner was able to hold on to slightly more than 50% of the company that he built from scratch...