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After the indictment, DeLorean, a former General Motors executive who was once in the auto industry's fast lane, brushed off questions from reporters | outside his Manhattan apartment with a brusque "Read the book. It's all in the book." He was referring to DeLorean (Zondervan; $17.95), his new autobiography. In it, he denies the charges raised in Detroit. Writes DeLorean: "When all the documents and facts are presented, I expect to be fully vindicated...
...spate of economic reports last week tended to support that view. Buoyed by a 7.1% jump in August purchases of U.S.-made cars, retail sales rose a strong 1.9% for the month. Much of the big auto gain reflected the low-cost financing that car- makers used to help clear dealers' lots. The Government also disclosed that industrial production rose a modest .3% in August, after remaining unchanged in July. The small increase showed that imports continue to cut deeply into American factory output...
...union--District 65, which is now part of the United Auto Workers (UAW)--had been organizing clerical and technical employees in the Harvard Medical Area since 1974. But, failed union elections, Harvard anti-union campaigns, and high job turnover rates have blocked the establishment of a University clerical and technical union...
BORN. To Barbara Mandrell, 36, perky country-pop singer, and Husband Ken Dudney, 44, her manager: their third child, second son; in Nashville. Name: Nathaniel. Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz. She has still not fully recovered from serious injuries she sustained in an auto crash a year...
Authorities said that Ramirez has a criminal record for auto theft, drugs and other, "relatively minor," charges, but that none of his past offenses resembled the violent nature of the recent assaults. Psychologists who have studied serial killings suspect that the Night Stalker shared at least one trait common to mass murderers. "Once they start to murder, the act becomes habitual," says J. Reid Meloy, a San Diego forensic psychologist. "As it becomes habitual, it becomes easier...