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...state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. The murder attempt in Addis Ababa had been carefully choreographed: two vehicles pulled into the motorcade; seven gunmen (five inside the vehicles and two atop a nearby building) fired, hitting Mubarak's black armored Mercedes-Benz limousine. "I wasn't afraid at all because it was an armored car," the President said later. "The car windows were hit by one of the bullets, which almost went through." Several assailants were killed in a heavy exchange of gunfire with Ethiopian and Egyptian security forces; one survivor is reportedly...
...campaign taught Buchanan a few lessons. For one, he has sold the Mercedes-Benz that earned him so much flak from the "Buy America" crowd. He plans to buy a Pontiac Bonneville as soon as he gets time to shop. In this year's superheated G.O.P. race, that opportunity may come sooner than he thinks...
...sarcastic film Roger & Me portrayed Flint as a dying community. But since then U.S. automakers have turned themselves from the world's highest- cost producers to those with the lowest costs: only $42 in wages for each $100 in product turned out, about a third below Toyota or Mercedes-Benz. They have won back so many motorists who once bought foreign cars that the share of the U.S. market going to imported autos has fallen from 22% in 1991 to under 14% now. Profits are booming; GM turned a record $4.9 billion loss in 1991 to a profit...
Rather than joining the trend of businesses shifting the costs of the health care crisis onto their employees, who had no part in creating the crisis, the Harvard Club ought to take a stand that health care is a right. We can afford it. Dorothee E. Benz...
...rushing out increasingly pricey models, and foreign luxury-car makers are jumping in too. Just last week Chrysler confirmed plans for a large upscale sports vehicle that may sell for as much as $40,000 when the first one arrives by 1998. It will square off against a Mercedes-Benz model that the German company will build in Vance, Alabama, and plans to sell for as much as $60,000 when production begins in 1997. Not to be outdone, BMW roared into the market in February by paying $1.2 billion for an 80% stake in Britain's Rover, whose sports...