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...last night in Iran, I caught the kickoff of the Rafsanjani campaign blitz, appropriately staged on Fereshteh Street, one of Tehran's high-end thoroughfares and a cruising route for the young. The 70-year-old cleric's grinning face was plastered on a new-model Mercedes-Benz, and dandyish young men and pretty young women in snug, bright tunics leaped into traffic to slap stickers on passing cars. Some drivers swerved to avoid them, with expressions that seemed to say, This is all a lie. Others stared, as if they were taking in a strange exhibit...
...which will be tested as early as this fall by commercial partners in the U.S., such as utilities. Chrysler says the vans can run 20 miles on batteries charged both via the socket and, like the Prius, by braking. Cost will matter, says Rolf Bartke, head of the Mercedes-Benz van division. "In the end it should be viable and economic for our customers." Bartke says the aim is to bring the battery cost down below $10,000 within four years...
...decision to break with the Syrians," recalls a diplomat who chatted with him. "He said, 'I'm sick and tired of the sons of bitches.'" Dr. Khoury was beeped to perform an emergency operation at American University Hospital. Hariri got behind the wheel of his armor-plated Mercedes Benz, with Fleihan in the passenger seat, and drove toward his West Beirut mansion in a six-vehicle convoy. As they passed the seafront Hotel St. Georges, a Beirut landmark, an explosion caused by a 1,000-kg bomb turned the site into an inferno. Hariri's charred body was identified...
...Mercedes-Benz will have air bags as standard equipment on all 1986 U.S. models. During the past two years, Mercedes has offered air bags as an option. Of the 155,000 cars sold in that period, 18,000 had air bags...
...promising a massive aid package to mitigate the damage. Just two days before, DaimlerChrysler chief executive Jürgen Schrempp faced a Berlin conference hall teeming with disgruntled shareholders. They attacked him for the company's biggest ever recall, announced on March 31, which will pull 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz cars worldwide back into the garage because of problems with voltage regulators, faulty software and defective braking systems in some models. They attacked him because Daimler announced it would take a €1.2 billion charge in 2005 to restructure its struggling Smart mini-car unit, which hasn't made...