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Actually, no one really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...floodlit white farmhouses with rockets and mortars, sabotage the two rail lines to South Africa, and plant mines on paved as well as dirt roads. Traffic moves in armed convoys on many main highways, and it is a rare farmer in Rhodesia today who does not carry in his car an automatic rifle or even a "rhogun," the local adaptation of Israel's Uzi submachine gun. Very little moves after dark, aside from guerrilla and security-force patrols engaged in their deadly game of hide and seek...
Otherwise, the week's numbers portrayed an economy roaring out of its winter doldrums. Industrial production in February jumped a full 1%, more than wiping out a January drop. About the only component that fell was auto output, and that should turn around quickly: new car sales in the first ten days of March rose more than 19% from a year earlier, to a record daily selling rate for the period. Housing starts in February soared 29%, the biggest one-month jump ever, to an annual rate of 1,791,000. Personal income in February rose at an annual...
...upland city of Manizales, coffee capital of Colombia, new-car sales are booming, and supermarkets stock imported pâté de foie gras. In the Mexican highlands, dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
...month-long wildcat walkout by 3,000 precision toolmakers at British Leyland, England's largest automaker and the only major one still under British control, shut down 15 factories, stopped production of all but six of the company's 18 car models, idled 44,000 assembly-line workers and threatened the troubled giant with near-total paralysis. Bowing to pressures from the government and their own union officials, the toolmakers voted last week to go back to their lathes. It was a significant reprieve for Britain's Labor government, which sorely needs worker support for Phase...