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...Prius actually dropped in May because the company didn't have any more vehicles to sell. In an industry where a two-month supply of vehicles is considered the norm, Toyota supplies of key hybrid models are being measured in single digits, says Toyota Motor Sales vice president Bob Carter. About 20% of all Toyota Camrys sold in the U.S. are now hybrids, making them more popular than models equipped with a V6 engine. (Meanwhile, Toyota is sitting on 100-day supply of unsold pickup trucks...
...launch of its new hybrid-SUVs has been delayed for nearly three months by a labor dispute at a key supplier of the batteries. And Toyota's chances of getting more hybrids into showrooms is foundering on the battery shortage. "We can't produce enough batteries right now," Carter says. A new plant for the nickel-metal-hydride batteries won't come on line until 2010. GM is deep into negotiations to purchase the battery subsidiary of Detroit-based Energy Conversion Devices, to give it better access to the batteries. The irony is that the batteries are virtually identical...
...signs of the President’s dangerous mindset. The Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations. Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust that such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism—particularly from rightist death squads—continues to plague the country...
...Osborne is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. His last-ditch plea to have his sentence commuted to life in prison was denied this morning by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, despite supportive letters from Georgia luminaries including former President Jimmy Carter and former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson - a Democrat and a Republican, respectively...
...first full year the Solomon Amendment was operational, both the draft registration—which had been ordered by President Carter because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan—and the presence of ROTC on campus were major issues, though they mainly affected a core of socially-active students, who themselves found a sympathetic ear within the administration...