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...voting members, an enshrined gerontocracy whose average age was 70. The death last January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 79, lowered the count by one, and last week, as the nation's attention was focused on Brezhnev's funeral, it was rumored that longtime Party Disciplinarian Arvid Pelshe, 83, had also died. If Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, is on the way out, as the cold reception he was accorded at the Tammany Hall, Soviet-Style
Renault is unlikely to back away now from its commitment to AMC. Renault needs the American firm's manufacturing and distribution facilities to compete in the U.S., which has become the key theater in an automotive battle that carmakers are waging around the world. Says Arvid Jouppi, a Detroit-based automobile industry analyst: "The great prize for Renault is to become one of the surviving world companies. If they lost North America, they would immediately be out of the big league. They realize, as do the Japanese, that the American market is a pearl without price...
...Analyst Arvid Jouppi of Rooney, Pace Inc. says that it will be a battle of "demo graphics and rust vs. interest and inflation." There are plenty of potential buyers among the large group of consumers born just after World War II, who are now reach ing their peak buying years...
Detroit's huge losses were a poignant reminder of the U.S. auto industry's continuing problems with slow sales and tough foreign competitors. Said Automotive Stock Analyst Arvid Jouppi: "The industry is now in a crucial period. The Big Three must stop the bleeding...
Three Politburo members are excluded as contenders for supreme power because they are not ethnic Russians-an unacknowledged but key qualification for the job of party boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens...