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Raising the drinking age, supporters contend, would save as many as 1,250 of the 5,000 teen-age lives lost each year in auto accidents caused by intoxication, and would also cut into the toll of some 20,000 older drunken-driving victims. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety of accident patterns in nine states that raised the drinking age shows an average 28% drop in fatal nighttime crashes involving under-21 age groups. Polls show 77% of Americans favor a drinking age of 21. Sums up New Jersey Congressman James Florio: "The 21-year...
...prop up the value of national currencies, which makes foreign goods cheaper and encourages consumers to go on import-spending sprees. Even though Chile's unemployment rate in 1981 was 35%, the country was a major importer of radios, TV sets, refrigerators and cars. The surge in foreign auto sales has made Santiago one of the world's most polluted capitals. Argentina went on a similar binge starting in the late 1970s, a period known as La Plata Dulce-the sweet money...
...West German luxury car this summer had better hurry to the showroom or they may be left clutching their cash. A six-week-long strike by West German metalworkers, who are pressing for a 35-hour week without a reduction in pay, has idled the country's auto industry. As a result, U.S. inventories of Mercedes-Benz and BMW models will probably run out some time in July. Once the strike is settled, it will take a month for new shipments of the cars to arrive...
...walkout could affect the availability of America's best-selling German auto, the Volkswagen. Though VW builds cars in the U.S., its American production is in jeopardy because key parts must come from Germany. The company's plant in New Stanton, Pa., has been gearing up for a planned November introduction of the Golf (expected price range: $7,500 to $11,500), a restyled and renamed version of the slow-selling Rabbit. But unless the German metalworkers go back to work within two weeks, the Golf may be delayed, and the 2,700 workers at the New Stanton...
...COMMON complaint, particularly in hard-core auto magaziens, is that bicyclists should be kept off the roads because they don't pay road-use taxes the way cars do at the gas pump or trucks do directly. The argument may sound good, but it doesn't hold water No bicycle ever eroded a road shoulder or made a pothole like an overweighted truck. Bicycling is a cheap clean alternative to driving and should be encouraged if for none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where...