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...once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist guerrilla slain by Somoza's father in 1934. Proclaimed an announcer: "The sons of Sandino are going to build the country that the general dreamed about...
...Israeli government wants the land for one of three new military airfields it plans to build in the Negev to replace bases that will be lost in the course of the phased Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. Government officials argue that this vital security interest justifies a special law, that the peace treaty timetable requiring final withdrawal by March 1982 allows no time for prolonged appeal proceedings, and that optional land and monetary compensation-ranging from $83 to $250 an acre-will be adequate...
...Volkswagen's sprawling headquarters in Wolfsburg, Chairman Toni Schmücker and his top aides are pondering a major question: Should the West German automaker build a second plant in the U.S.? A final decision is expected by year's end, and the early signs point toward a definite ja. A team of Volkswagen experts is already studying possible sites; the new plant would be an assembly operation that would put together the popular, front-wheel drive Rabbits and would probably be on the West Coast...
Financially, it is more attractive to build cars in the U.S. than to import them from West Germany; because of the high wages and constantly climbing value of the German mark relative to the dollar, the total hourly labor costs amount to about $13.60 in Germany, vs. only $9 at the Pennsylvania factory...
Even in the unlikely event it decides against a second American plant, Volkswagen, which is engaged in a threeyear, $3.2 billion expansion program that is the largest in its history, has already budgeted about $640 million to build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...