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...chauffeur called for Yamashita promptly at 7:50 a.m. in an indigo Mercedes-Benz limousine. His wife Kikuko, 57, accompanied him outside his house and bowed farewell. Acknowledging this ritual with a nod, Yamashita climbed into the back seat. He greeted his driver by saying: "It's going to be another hectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daily Samurai Duel | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...game was big and artillery appropriately heavy. Shortly before 10 one morning last week, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, the exiled former dictator of Nicaragua, climbed into his white Mercedes-Benz 280 limousine along with his chauffeur and a business associate, and drove away from his luxurious villa in a suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Sudden Death in Asunci | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Modestly spurning the trappings of power, Doe has stopped using Tolbert's presidential Mercedes-Benz limousine except for rare ceremonial, occasions. Instead, he drives around town hi a Chevrolet Chevette, sometimes heading out alone for late-night excursions. Doe is said to be wearying of the demands of political office. "If it were up to him, the soldiers would be back in the barracks by Christmas," says a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Working to Restore Confidence | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...finally result in perhaps only nine superfirms doing business in all parts of the globe. Three of these might be based in the U.S., three in Japan and three in Europe. In addition, there will probably be a few low-volume specialty companies such as Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...police net closed in on Tekere after his official ministerial car, a blue Jaguar, was seen speeding away from the farm along with a white Mercedes-Benz. Within hours, the cars were traced to a Salisbury apartment complex. While Tekere and a number of his heavily armed bodyguards holed up inside, some 40 police gunmen laid siege to the building. After a lengthy standoff, the scene shifted to Tekere's high-walled suburban home, to which the erratic Minister retreated with his bodyguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: The First Test | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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