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Thomasville is a tiny town--population 17 or 18,000--just off of U.S. Highway 85. Thomasville, and North Carolina, have sided with Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party since 1980. This year, however, the polls show that the state is far from a lock for either party, and both Republicans and Democrats are working hard to woo voters in this state--one of those which could fall in the Democrats' column this time around...
...Democrats, always on the cutting edge, consulted experts who assured them that a pastel-colored podium would be more pleasing to the eyes than red, white and blue. Somebody forgot to tell Atlanta business owners, however, who have covered the town with the traditional colors...
...produce. In April 76 Chinese peasants, accompanied by interpreters, crossed the border at Suifenhe to spend six months demonstrating to Siberian farmers their techniques for planting, growing and harvesting. The Chinese were greeted with a brass band and welcoming banners when they arrived in Pogranichny. The Inner Mongolian town of Manzhouli is talking about a similar arrangement with Zabaikalsk, just over the strip of border that is still patrolled by Soviet guard dogs and marked by watchtowers and electrified fences. Says Manzhouli Mayor Xu Shaoan: "Our Soviet neighbors would like to learn to produce melons the way we do here...
...squash or harpoon the odd malefactor. He may find fellowship with Patricia Clarkson, a Sondra Locke look-alike who plays a prying TV reporter. And he does get to drive in the big chase scene, in which a remote-controlled toy car with explosives attached hounds Harry through the town's roller-coaster streets. True Californians, he and his partner never think to get out and run for cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual. "It's not a rip-off," says...
...charges quickly became the centerpiece of the postelectoral furor. In Agualeguas, a small town just 25 miles south of the Rio Grande, P.R.I. officials claimed 3,379 votes for Salinas, but reporters from the Monterrey- based newspaper El Norte who had been monitoring the balloting claimed that only one-third that number had turned out to vote. In the barrio of Colonia Pancho Villa, a brawl broke out after the polls closed when P.R.I. officials physically ejected opposition representatives who were supposed to observe the ballot count. Elsewhere, there were charges that "galloping brigades" of up to 80 people...