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...from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to Britain in 1982, shortly after the Pontiff survived an assassin's bullet. Since then, almost everywhere John Paul went, new Popemobiles were sure to appear -- manufactured and generally donated by Renault, Peugeot, GM, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, among others. Last week, on his trip to the Baltic states (his 61st foray out of the Holy See), the Pope took along his Mercedes and Land Rover models...
...corruption in the government and the military that could prove to be bloody. Wei Jianxing, head of the party disciplinary committee, recently told a closed-door meeting of the party's central committee that corruption has reached epidemic proportions. "In the army some division-level officers drive Mercedes-Benz 500s," says Wei. "Does this luxurious life-style correspond with our proletarian ideals when some 100 million farmers still live in poverty?" It was a rhetorical question. Wei already claims to have a list of 200 offenders who'll be removed in the next six months or so. Twenty of them...
...MOVE DESIGNED TO CUT COSTS AND BOOST PROduction, Mercedes-Benz is expected to announce this week a decision to build an auto plant on American soil. Daimler-Benz, the corporate parent, has been expanding its links with the U.S., recently signing a deal to become the first German company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. By selecting the U.S. for its assembly plant, the company is placing a huge vote of confidence in American manufacturing. It is also putting its fine-tuned reputation for quality engineering on the line. The factory will produce a new four-wheel...
Equally noteworthy has been Mobutu's quest for sexual favors among the wives of political associates. "The President enjoys an almost feudal droit du seigneur," explains a former Cabinet minister. "He uses sex as a tool to dominate the men around him. You get money or a Mercedes-Benz, and he takes your wife and you work for him." Says a former longtime resident of Gbadolite: "The complaints of those he has cuckolded only add to his mystique as a virile and powerful ruler...
With that kind of money, the University could buy every undergraduate a top-of-the-line, fully loaded Mercedes-Benz...