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...look-alike autos, the company decided that it needed to give car buyers a peek at coming attractions. In a surprise marketing step, GM's Chevrolet division announced it would supply Avis, National and other car-rental agencies with several thousand advance models of its 1987 Corsica sedans and Beretta coupes. GM hopes that the cars, to be available for rent about three months ahead of their official March 12 debut, will turn some heads. The spiffy Chevrolets (estimated price: $8,500) represent GM's strongest answer yet to the popular styling of Ford's Tempo and Taurus lines...
...buyers who have complained in recent years that certain classes of mid-size GM cars -- for example, the Chevrolet Celebrity, Pontiac 6000, Buick Century and Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera -- have tended to look as though they were made by the same cookie cutter. The first major departure will be the Beretta and Corsica, followed in the fall of 1987 by a line of intermediate-size autos, designated the W-body cars in keeping with Detroit's penchant for alphabetic code names. GM allotted nearly $7 billion, its largest development budget ever, to create the front-wheel-drive W-body models. While...
...weapon, apparently, is too small for congressional scrutiny. Take the Army's venerable Colt .45 handgun, widely used since 1911. Searching for a modernized replacement, the Army settled on the 9-mm Italian-made Beretta. It did so after extensively testing other handguns, including those made by Smith & Wesson, based in Springfield, Mass. One Smith & Wesson model broke down before firing 5,000 rounds, while another cracked at 7,000. By contrast, the Beretta triggered 8,800 rounds without a mishap. After the Army signed a contract for 300,000 Berettas, which would be produced at the company's Accokeek...
...Massachusetts firm beats out the Beretta for this contract, the Army would wind up with two incompatible handguns. "It's absolutely ridiculous," contends an aide to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin. "It's the rawest of pork...
...formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them, Gerrie, was injured by an exploding land mine late last year...