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| North America:The fortieth Democratic national convention meets in Atlanta to nominate Michael Dukakis.
The thirty fourth Republican national convention meets in New Orleans to nominate George Bush. |
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| Then Vice President George Bush is nominated for the presidency as the Republicans hold their National Convention in the Superdome. | Losses peak at McDermott International as the oil business continues its downturn. The company began in 1923 when R. Thomas McDermott and his father J. Ray McDermott won a contract to build 50 wooden drilling rigs for an east Texas wildcatter and moved to New Orleans in 1964 | Cast of Steel Magnolias (Shirley McLaine, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Darrell Hannah, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukacas and Tom Skerrit use several locations in Natchitoches to make the film. | Louisianian Olympians in Seoul, Korea: Teresa Weatherspoon, gold, basketball. |
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