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Good Sport: Senate Majority Leader George J....

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Good Sport: Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, the Maine Democrat known for his scholarly, measured debate, did the live noon sportscast Tuesday for station WCSH-TV in Portland, Me., reading from a script prepared by WCSH’s regular writers. His comment after stepping off the set? “That was fun.”

Getting Out: James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., is divorcing his wife of 12 years, Anna Sandhu Ray, 45, of Nashville, Tenn. Ray, 62, who is serving a 99-year sentence, listed irreconcilable differences in court papers. Anna Ray reportedly has not visited her husband in several years.

Common Ground: Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel will visit Iceland on a trip that includes watching a performance of one of his own plays. The Icelandic National Theater will perform Havel’s “The Reconstruction” on Saturday. Havel, a dissident playwright before heading Czechoslovakia’s reform government, was invited to Iceland by its president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, a former director of the national theater.

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A New Game: After years of adapting its games for Latinos merely by slipping a set of Spanish instructions into the box, Milton Bradley Co. is really going bilingual. Its new board game, Sabado Gigante--based on a popular Latino cable television game show of the same name--was unveiled this week at a trade show in New York. Said Milton Bradley President George R. Ditomassi: “This is the first time in this industry I’ve seen a product that’s adapted to the market rather than asking the market to adapt to the product.”

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