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Mondale's forces have tentatively lined up a parade of some of the party's best speakers to stir up interest. Monday night, after the opening ceremonies, New York Governor Mario Cuomo will deliver the keynote address. Cuomo has a reputation for thoughtful as well as polished oratory; he is a New Deal liberal who appeals to old-fashioned family values...
...move part of their production overseas, where labor costs are often much lower than in the U.S. Many electronics firms, including Atari and Apple Computer, have set up circuit-board assembly lines in Asia. General Motors' Delco electronics division has built plants in Singapore and Mexico. Such moves stir bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop...
...believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind of halfway house" to heaven. Mamma has access...
...hand went up to his ear and he looked puzzled. Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, who was seated next to French Transport Minister Charles Fiterman, one of four Communists in Mitterrand's Cabinet, uttered an audible sigh of impatience. When the Russian translation was read by the interpreter, a stir crossed the hall. But Chernenko did not even smile ironically, and 55 minutes later the banquet was over...
Guatemalan exiles stir tension...