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...Chrysler will place its popular Plymouth Voyager and Dodge Caravan minivans in the showrooms of four countries: Switzerland, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The firm is considering exports of its LeBaron luxury coupe as well as of high-performance versions of the Dodge Shadow and Plymouth Sundance compacts. Chrysler hopes to sell at least 500 cars next year for starters. Says Lutz: "If we're doing 30,000 to 40,000 units a year in five years' time, that would be a proud achievement...
...balmy Sunday evening, and General Augusto Pinochet was making the 23-mile trip back to the capital, Santiago, from his weekend retreat at El Melocoton, accompanied by his ten-year-old grandson. The President's armor- plated Mercedes was the fourth in a five-car caravan. Suddenly, an oncoming car pulling a small camping trailer swerved across the road, blocking the presidential motorcade. "Intense firing began," Pinochet later recalled, "with machine guns, rifles and bazookas or possibly rocket launchers and some hand grenades." The barrage, which came both from the trailer and the surrounding hillsides, cut down the two motorcycle...
...plantation workers waited for a glimpse of an unusual political heroine, a retiring, bespectacled housewife with only nine weeks of political experience. Sometimes that vigil lasted for hours, under glaring sunshine and the occasional tropical downpour, but the crowds were quiet and uncomplaining. Finally, when the long-awaited political caravan straggled into view, the throngs invariably exploded into ecstasy. As small children ran alongside the open jeep that bore Opposition Candidate Corazon ("Cory") , Aquino, 53, supporters threw yellow and white confetti and shouted a welcome: "Cory! Cory! Cory...
...sped toward Chicago, events were unfolding that would give Reagan a clean one. But it is almost a given in the history of presidential leadership that nothing happens when it should. This caravan was a celebration for tax reform, with bands and balloons and healthy Americans cheering. The President had to wear two faces that day, one for his happy crowds in public, another for his private moments as terrorism avenger. At every critical point during the journey Reagan would turn from blaring politics to a whispered question: "Have we found them...
...clear day. Light winds. Nothing should have gone wrong. Yet barely had the single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan lifted off in Jenkinsburg, Ga., last week when it stalled and plunged into a pasture from 1,000 ft., too suddenly for the pilot or any of the 16 experienced skydivers to escape. All were killed, their bodies crushed against one another in the front of the plane...