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What follows, listeners know, will be two hours of Keillor and his friends, which is to say of honky-tonk piano, jazz, mournful old Protestant hymns and country music, much of it from some fairly strange countries. This flow of funk is interrupted by loopy commercials for the Deep Valley Bed, the kind with the old-time mattress that sags in the middle, making prolonged marital discord impossible; Bertha's Kitty Boutique, where doting and guilt-ridden cat owners can find, among other cossets, a special cat ice cream called Gatto Gelato to cool kitty's tongue on hot days...
...singer-guitarist with the pop group Crosby, Stills and Nash; on drug, weapon and hit-and-run charges, after he allegedly crashed his car into a fence, fled the scene and was later found to have a .45-cal. pistol and cocaine paraphernalia in the vehicle; in Mill Valley, Calif. It was his third arrest on drug-related charges in the past year...
...hardly his first major summit, but former President Jimmy Carter found trekking through the Himalayas in northern Nepal to be a challenge nonetheless. The goal of his two-week expedition was the pinnacle of 18,192-ft.-high Mount Kala Pattar, one of the scenic peaks in the valley surrounded by the loftier Lhotse and Everest. Accompanied by Rosalynn, Carter quickly outpaced four of his Secret Service men, who had to return to camp because of altitude sickness. When the group reached a rarefied 15,000 ft., his wife was flown out by helicopter while he proceeded...
While the semiconductor slump is centered in Silicon Valley, the industry's hub, it extends well beyond that California region. United Technologies said last month that it was permanently closing its Mostek subsidiary in suburban Dallas and laying off 2,500 workers in Texas and 3,200 worldwide. The decision followed more than a year of intense and often agonizing cost cutting. Said Marie Gentilo, 45, a Mostek quality-control worker: "There is nothing for us. Some of us are too old to get new jobs...
...companies have been mounting legal efforts to strike back. Three Silicon Valley firms, Intel, National Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices, complained to the Government in September that their Japanese rivals are selling certain types of chips in the U.S. at artificially low prices. Last week the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that the Commerce Department should open a probe of the matter. The U.S. manufacturers want a fair shake in the Japanese market as well. The Semiconductor Industry Association formally complained to the U.S. Trade Representative last June that Japan was blocking access to its markets. Japanese companies deny both...