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...August 11 article incorrectly stated that the Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) currently did not have an executive director and would elect one at its annual meeting. However, Dorothee Benz '87, whom the AAA letter identified as a full-time staffperson, is currently executive director...
...such an atmosphere, corruption thrives. One prosperous bazaari, who lives in a villa on a tree-lined street above the center of Tehran, says he can still bribe a policeman when the officer stops him late at night in his Mercedes-Benz for drunken driving. A diplomat discloses that he pays off local police before giving a dinner party and afterward finds them in his kitchen dining on the leftovers and drinking his vodka...
...sure, Toyota and Nissan have little reason for nervousness. Imports accounted for only 2.2% of the Japanese market last year, and the giant American auto manufacturers were virtually absent. BMW's success, however, has encouraged several foreign carmakers, including Sweden's Saab and Volvo and West Germany's Mercedes-Benz, to push harder in Japan. As a result, car imports to Japan jumped 36% in 1986, to more than...
Richard Shapiro, 28, chief financial officer for a chain of outpatient health centers based in Los Angeles, likes that notion. He began leasing in 1982 with a Toyota Celica and moved up to a Mercedes-Benz, later a BMW and now a 1986 Porsche 944. Shapiro pays only about $450 a month for the Porsche -- considerably less than the $800 a month he figures a conventional auto loan would cost him. Tom and Dede Spencer of Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, decided to lease their 1987 Dodge Caravan for $367.50 a month. They can spend the money they...
...subcommittee's letter to Benz recognizedthat she was not physically involved. It said "thesubcommittee understands that you did notpersonally sit in front of an exit door, [but] youwere party to both the planning and the executionof the events that led directly to the ViceConsul's leaving the room. We therefore concludethat you share in responsibility for thedisruption of the Vice Consul's speech...