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...flurry over Reagan's remark, came as Mondale and Ferraro were injecting some much needed spirit into wha has been a stumbling and limp Democratic campaign. At George Washington University, Mondale repeatedly drew cheers from some 1,500 students as he assailec the President's pre-election switch on foreign affairs. Mondale ticked off the contrasts: "The new Reagan praises international law. The old Reagan jumped bail from the World Court. The new Reagan criticizes South Africa. The old Reagan cozied up to apartheid. The new Reagan calls for peace in Central America. The old Reagan launched...
...delays come as a result of a switch to a new operating system-software which is intended to upgrade computing power and efficiency and make Harvard's computers more compatable with outside systems...
...seats, the accord was easily approved by the legislature, and Peres was sworn in as Prime Minister. He will be the country's leader during the next 25 months while Shamir serves as Foreign Minister and acting Prime Minister; for the following 25 months, the two men will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last week the Likud government's Energy Minister, will head the crucial Finance Ministry. Ariel Sharon, the Likud politician who was forced to resign...
...some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw it, but the company had already made its point...
Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...