SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549-1004





                                    FORM 8-K
                   CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



          Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported) August 17, 1998
                                  ----------------




                           GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
            -----------------------------------------------------
            (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)




      STATE OF DELAWARE                 1-143                 38-0572515
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(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
 of incorporation)                                         Identification No.)




   100 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan                 48243-7301
3044 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan                 48202-3091
--------------------------------------------                 ----------
  (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)







Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (313)-556-5000
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS

         On August 17,  1998,  General  Motors  Corporation  (GM)  issued a news
release  regarding  the  announcement  that Thomas H. Wyman was  resigning as an
outside  director  from GM and joining the future  board of  directors of Delphi
Automotive Systems. The news release was as follows:


                          DELPHI APPOINTS LEAD DIRECTOR

     DETROIT -- General Motors Chairman,  Chief Executive  Officer and President
John F. Smith,  Jr.,  announced  today that Thomas H. Wyman,  a member of the GM
Board of Directors  since 1985, will resign from the GM Board following its next
meeting to join the future board of directors of Delphi Automotive Systems Corp.
Wyman  will serve as lead  independent  director  and  chairman  of the  board's
Executive  Committee.  Along with J. T. Battenberg III, the new chairman,  chief
executive  officer  and  president  of  Delphi,  Wyman  will  help will lead the
formation of the new board -- identifying  and recruiting the outside  directors
and establishing the Board's corporate governance principles.

     On Aug. 3, 1998,  GM disclosed  planned  transactions  that would result in
Delphi Automotive Systems becoming a fully independent,  publicly traded company
in 1999.

     Wyman has also served on the board of GM's subsidiary,  Hughes Electronics,
from March 1995 to the present,  when he resigned due to the potential  conflict
between his  directorship at AT&T,  which is planning to merge with TCI, and his
directorship at Hughes.

     Smith said,  "Tom Wyman has been,  and is, an exemplary  director  since he
joined  the GM Board in 1985.  He has been a member of every GM Board  committee
and currently  serves as chairman of the Investment Funds Committee and a member
of the Executive  Compensation,  Capital Stock, Directors Affairs, and Executive
Committees.  He is a valued  counselor to the management team and has served the
board's and GM's interests with unqualified  distinction."  Smith also announced
that Wyman will join the General Motors Corporate Advisory Council.

     Battenberg  said,  "We are honored  that Tom Wyman will be able to join the
Delphi board at its inception. His leadership and his strategic, global insights
will be exceptionally valuable in helping us build our future growth."


                                    # # #









                                    - 2 -

                                 Thomas H. Wyman
                         Director - Various Corporations

     Mr. Wyman was  Chairman of CBS Inc. He joined CBS as  President  and CEO in
June 1980 and was  elected to an  additional  post of  Chairman  by the Board of
Directors on April 20, 1983.  He resigned to take early  retirement in September
1986 when control of CBS was acquired by the Tisch interests.

     After serving as an outside Director of S.G. Warburg Group PLC from
1988-1992, Mr. Wyman was appointed Chairman of S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc. in
September 1992.  He was appointed a Vice Chairman of S.G. Warburg Group PLC
in November 1993, serving until July 1995 when the Group was merged into
Swiss Bank Corporation, and subsequently joined the Council of International
Advisers of Swiss Bank.  He was named Senior Adviser, SBC Warburg Inc. in
June 1996 with the integration of S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc. into the U.S.
operations of Swiss Bank Corporation, retiring from this position in
January 1998.

     Mr. Wyman joined CBS from the Pillsbury Company,  of which he had been Vice
Chairman since March 1979. He had  previously  spent four years as President and
CEO of Green Giant  Company,  which was acquired by Pillsbury in 1979.  Prior to
joining Green Giant,  Mr. Wyman was Senior Vice  President,  General Manager and
Chairman of the Management Executive Committee at the Polaroid Corporation which
he joined as Vice President in 1965.

     Mr. Wyman was an Assistant to the Managing  Director and subsequently  Vice
President  of the  Nestle  parent  company  in Europe  from 1960 to 1965 after a
year's  graduate  study  at  IMEDE  in  Lausanne,   Switzerland--the  management
development  institution  sponsored by Nestle,  Harvard  Business School and the
University  of  Lausanne.  He joined the  Nestle  Company in New York in 1955 in
sales and production, and became Assistant to the President of the U.S. company.
He also  worked  for First  National  City Bank of New York as a trainee  in the
Overseas  Division  from  1951-1953,  and served as an officer in the U.S.  Army
Corps of Engineers in Korea from 1953-1955.

     His current affiliations include serving on the Board of Directors of
AT&T and AGCO Corporation.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of Nestle
USA, Inc. and of the International Advisory Group of Toshiba Corporation
(Tokyo).

     Mr. Wyman is a Chairman  Emeritus of Amherst  College,  Trustee Emeritus of
The Ford  Foundation  and The  Aspen  Institute,  and a member  of The  Business
Council. He served as the William H. Donaldson  Distinguished  Faculty Fellow at
the Yale School of Management from July 1987 through June 1989.

     His previous board memberships include General Motors  Corporation,  Hughes
Electronics  Corporation,  Scott Paper Company,  Norton Company,  Toro,  Norwest
Bank, The Boston Company,  Green Giant Company, The Pillsbury Company, CBS Inc.,
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (London), ZENECA Group PLC (London), and United
Biscuits  PLC  (Edinburgh).  He has  served as a  Trustee  of  Phillips  Academy
(Andover),  Amherst College, and The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and
as a board member of The United Way of America,  The United Negro  College Fund,
and The Museum of  Broadcasting.  He was a member of the Policy Committee of The
Business Roundtable.


                                    - 3 -


     Born in St. Louis on November 30, 1929, Mr. Wyman is a graduate of Phillips
Academy,  Andover,  MA. He  obtained a B.A.,  magna cum laude,  in English  from
Amherst  College,  Amherst,  MA in 1951 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  Mr.
Wyman has  received  Honorary  Degrees  from Amherst  College;  St.  Augustine's
College, Raleigh, NC; and Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT.

     Mr. Wyman is married and has four  children.  The Wyman home is in Jackson,
Wyoming.





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                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                            GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                                            --------------------------
                                                    (Registrant)
Date    August 18, 1998
        -----------------
                                            By
                                            s/Peter R. Bible
                                            -------------------------------
                                            (Peter R. Bible,
                                             Chief Accounting Officer)

























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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549-1004

                                    FORM 8-K
                   CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

          Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported) August 17, 1998
                                  ----------------

                           GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
            -----------------------------------------------------
            (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

      STATE OF DELAWARE                 1-143                 38-0572515
----------------------------   -----------------------    -------------------
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
 of incorporation)                                         Identification No.)

   100 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan                 48243-7301
3044 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan                 48202-3091
--------------------------------------------                 ----------
  (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (313)-556-5000
                                                         --------------

                                    - 1 -

ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS

         On August 17,  1998,  General  Motors  Corporation  (GM)  issued a news
release  regarding  the  announcement  that Thomas H. Wyman was  resigning as an
outside  director  from GM and joining the future  board of  directors of Delphi
Automotive Systems. The news release was as follows:

                          DELPHI APPOINTS LEAD DIRECTOR

     DETROIT -- General Motors Chairman,  Chief Executive  Officer and President
John F. Smith,  Jr.,  announced  today that Thomas H. Wyman,  a member of the GM
Board of Directors  since 1985, will resign from the GM Board following its next
meeting to join the future board of directors of Delphi Automotive Systems Corp.
Wyman  will serve as lead  independent  director  and  chairman  of the  board's
Executive  Committee.  Along with J. T. Battenberg III, the new chairman,  chief
executive  officer  and  president  of  Delphi,  Wyman  will  help will lead the
formation of the new board -- identifying  and recruiting the outside  directors
and establishing the Board's corporate governance principles.

     On Aug. 3, 1998,  GM disclosed  planned  transactions  that would result in
Delphi Automotive Systems becoming a fully independent,  publicly traded company
in 1999.

     Wyman has also served on the board of GM's subsidiary,  Hughes Electronics,
from March 1995 to the present,  when he resigned due to the potential  conflict
between his  directorship at AT&T,  which is planning to merge with TCI, and his
directorship at Hughes.

     Smith said,  "Tom Wyman has been,  and is, an exemplary  director  since he
joined  the GM Board in 1985.  He has been a member of every GM Board  committee
and currently  serves as chairman of the Investment Funds Committee and a member
of the Executive  Compensation,  Capital Stock, Directors Affairs, and Executive
Committees.  He is a valued  counselor to the management team and has served the
board's and GM's interests with unqualified  distinction."  Smith also announced
that Wyman will join the General Motors Corporate Advisory Council.

     Battenberg  said,  "We are honored  that Tom Wyman will be able to join the
Delphi board at its inception. His leadership and his strategic, global insights
will be exceptionally valuable in helping us build our future growth."

                                    # # #

                                    - 2 -

                                 Thomas H. Wyman
                         Director - Various Corporations

     Mr. Wyman was  Chairman of CBS Inc. He joined CBS as  President  and CEO in
June 1980 and was  elected to an  additional  post of  Chairman  by the Board of
Directors on April 20, 1983.  He resigned to take early  retirement in September
1986 when control of CBS was acquired by the Tisch interests.

     After serving as an outside Director of S.G. Warburg Group PLC from
1988-1992, Mr. Wyman was appointed Chairman of S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc. in
September 1992.  He was appointed a Vice Chairman of S.G. Warburg Group PLC
in November 1993, serving until July 1995 when the Group was merged into
Swiss Bank Corporation, and subsequently joined the Council of International
Advisers of Swiss Bank.  He was named Senior Adviser, SBC Warburg Inc. in
June 1996 with the integration of S.G. Warburg & Co. Inc. into the U.S.
operations of Swiss Bank Corporation, retiring from this position in
January 1998.

     Mr. Wyman joined CBS from the Pillsbury Company,  of which he had been Vice
Chairman since March 1979. He had  previously  spent four years as President and
CEO of Green Giant  Company,  which was acquired by Pillsbury in 1979.  Prior to
joining Green Giant,  Mr. Wyman was Senior Vice  President,  General Manager and
Chairman of the Management Executive Committee at the Polaroid Corporation which
he joined as Vice President in 1965.

     Mr. Wyman was an Assistant to the Managing  Director and subsequently  Vice
President  of the  Nestle  parent  company  in Europe  from 1960 to 1965 after a
year's  graduate  study  at  IMEDE  in  Lausanne,   Switzerland--the  management
development  institution  sponsored by Nestle,  Harvard  Business School and the
University  of  Lausanne.  He joined the  Nestle  Company in New York in 1955 in
sales and production, and became Assistant to the President of the U.S. company.
He also  worked  for First  National  City Bank of New York as a trainee  in the
Overseas  Division  from  1951-1953,  and served as an officer in the U.S.  Army
Corps of Engineers in Korea from 1953-1955.

     His current affiliations include serving on the Board of Directors of
AT&T and AGCO Corporation.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of Nestle
USA, Inc. and of the International Advisory Group of Toshiba Corporation
(Tokyo).

     Mr. Wyman is a Chairman  Emeritus of Amherst  College,  Trustee Emeritus of
The Ford  Foundation  and The  Aspen  Institute,  and a member  of The  Business
Council. He served as the William H. Donaldson  Distinguished  Faculty Fellow at
the Yale School of Management from July 1987 through June 1989.

     His previous board memberships include General Motors  Corporation,  Hughes
Electronics  Corporation,  Scott Paper Company,  Norton Company,  Toro,  Norwest
Bank, The Boston Company,  Green Giant Company, The Pillsbury Company, CBS Inc.,
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (London), ZENECA Group PLC (London), and United
Biscuits  PLC  (Edinburgh).  He has  served as a  Trustee  of  Phillips  Academy
(Andover),  Amherst College, and The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and
as a board member of The United Way of America,  The United Negro  College Fund,
and The Museum of  Broadcasting.  He was a member of the Policy Committee of The
Business Roundtable.

                                    - 3 -

     Born in St. Louis on November 30, 1929, Mr. Wyman is a graduate of Phillips
Academy,  Andover,  MA. He  obtained a B.A.,  magna cum laude,  in English  from
Amherst  College,  Amherst,  MA in 1951 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  Mr.
Wyman has  received  Honorary  Degrees  from Amherst  College;  St.  Augustine's
College, Raleigh, NC; and Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT.

     Mr. Wyman is married and has four  children.  The Wyman home is in Jackson,
Wyoming.

                                    # # #

                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                            GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                                            --------------------------
                                                    (Registrant)
Date    August 18, 1998
        -----------------
                                            By
                                            s/Peter R. Bible
                                            -------------------------------
                                            (Peter R. Bible,
                                             Chief Accounting Officer)

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