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...about growing competition from Japanese car companies, which are now gearing up major "transplant" factories as they did in the U.S. during the past decade. Auto analysts say the Japanese market share on the Continent is likely to rise from its current 11% level to 25% by 1994. "The battleground here will be every bit as bloody as in the U.S. in 1981-82," says Angel Perversi, managing director of General Motors Espana. "The Japanese are going to add excess capacity. The only question is who is going to lose...
...battleground in Panama, however, a far less optimistic drama was unfolding. Confounding Pentagon hopes that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces would quickly crumble under a devastating U.S. onslaught, the fugitive dictator's men were preparing a determined counterattack. Instead of the quick and decisive knockout U.S. commanders had sought, the invasion was in danger of degenerating into a nasty street fight in densely populated Panama City. House-to-house fighting in a crowded urban area was something military planners were leery of because of the threat to civilians...
...latest issue of Foreign Affairs you say that the U.S.S.R. is becoming a "volcano" and a "battleground" of warring nationalities. Will there even be a U.S.S.R. in the year...
...stand up for these rights which seem to be slipping away before our very eyes. Defenders of choice should make every effort to attend the march this weekend. But the pro-choice movement need not start or end with the march on Washington. Massachusetts promises to be an important battleground for the abortion issue, and students should join marches at the state House as well as at the Capitol. In addition, there is a petition circulating in Harvard Square and in many of the houses that calls for abortion to be protected as a clear constitutional right. We urge students...
Other issues come and go, but the city's rent control system remains as controversial today as the day it was enacted. And in every election, rent control is a battleground between candidates favoring the system's overhaul and those rallying for its preservation at any cost...