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...cold war is over. Intellectuals, diplomats and government officials agree. So does business; last week General Motors signed a $1 billion deal to sell auto parts to the U.S.S.R. Now would somebody please tell Congress? Old thinking dies hard on Capitol Hill, and there are days when the lawmakers seem to have missed the news...
...embassy official in Mexico City was startled to see his auto, which had been stolen there, cruising down a street in the capital. He was even more surprised when he caught up with the driver, who turned out to be a federal judge. The explanation is disturbing: according to a report in the San Diego Tribune, when Mexican authorities recover stolen vehicles, they sometimes put them to their own use. This is especially true, says the U.S. State Department, of automobiles stolen in the U.S. and driven across the border. One Mexican federal policeman reportedly paid thieves...
...When U.S. diplomats raise the subject, the Mexicans reply that they keep only cars used by drug dealers and point out that the U.S. also confiscates vehicles used in smuggling. That is not quite good enough for San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter, who wants an outside inspection of every auto in Mexico's federal police motor pool...
...vice chairman of Chrysler, Gerald Greenwald, 54, was considered the crown prince who would succeed Lee Iacocca as head of Detroit's No. 3 auto company. A quietly self-assured master of finance, Greenwald helped save Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1970s by cutting production costs and lining up Government financing. But Greenwald stunned Detroit last week with his decision to quit the troubled automaker in order to lead the proposed $4.4 billion employee buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Air Lines...
...method, developed in 1958, has had considerable success in Japan. Last year Kumon sent an old friend, retired auto dealer Takayoshi Sogo, to try to sell the program to American schools. So far, 196 in the South and Southwest have taken the offer. "I didn't see any reason why this system wouldn't work in America," says Sogo. "We have merely taken universal techniques and applied them to give each student the self-confidence to tackle his regular math courses...