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...frustrated" and "a bit angry." Explained an aide: "He thinks the press coverage has been unfair." Vanishing was the hope that the storm would subside before Reagan leaves April 30 on a ten-day trip to Europe. He will make appearances in Germany before and after the annual economic summit of the seven major industrialized democracies (May 2 to 4 in Bonn), visit Spain and Portugal, and address the European Parliament in Strasbourg...
Neither The Sims nor Halo 2 is any sort of flag on the summit; rather, they are merely the gunshots at the start of the race. Until recently, many people were not convinced that video and computer games would do it for most Americans. Some still aren’t. But as the years pass, the population will age, the old will die, the young will grow old, technology will continue to spread in our society and throughout the world, and inevitably (barring a resurgent neo-Luddite movement) within 30 years we will all be playing video games. There...
...DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own Northern Ireland-based company, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, New Jersey. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance the failing company-which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) His stainless steel two-seater with doors that open upwards like a gull's wings did not sell, but won lasting fame as the time-travelling vehicle in the 1985 film...
...campaign spear-headed by France and Germany to lift the European Union's ban on selling arms to China foundered at the E.U. summit last week. Anger at Beijing's human-rights abuses; the new Chinese "antisecession" law authorizing war if Taiwan edges towards independence, which drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Taipei late last week; and intense pressure from Washington-which fears it might one day be on the receiving end of high-tech weapons in the Taiwan Strait-led several E.U. members to sidle away from a deal to lift the embargo by June...
DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own company in Northern Ireland, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, N.J. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance his failing company, which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) Although he did not sell many of his stainless-steel two-seaters, whose doors open upward like gulls' wings, the DeLorean won lasting fame as the time-traveling vehicle...