OTHER NEWS - Dec. 24, 1992

Wal-Mart Apologizes Over ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Labels: The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has apologized for signs in some stores claiming that goods were made in this country when they were imported from overseas. “No intention was made to deceive our customers, and steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence,” David Glass said in a news release. The apology came just hours before a “Dateline NBC” television report Tuesday night contended that Wal-Mart was importing increasingly vast quantities of merchandise, exploiting sweatshop child labor in Bangladesh to produce private-label clothes, doing business with a suspected garment-smuggling operation in China and displaying foreign-made clothes on racks that proclaim “Made in the USA.”