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...type of apology. And more importantly, it is not just the Black students who unfortunately saw that cartoon to whom the Lampoon must apologize to, for really the Lampoon owes an apology to all the Black people whose past has been victimized by 400 years of a truly savage custom known as slavery, and to all the Black people living right now in a truly savage country known as South Africa, and to all the Black people all over the world who are still being subjected to savage racial hatred and bigotry...
...kept to a rigorous daily schedule, but after meeting with a delegation from Mozambique on March 2, he seemed to adopt an even lower profile than usual. Curiosity grew when TASS failed to print a summary of the weekly meeting of the ruling Politburo, as has been the custom recently, a possible indication that the gathering had been called off. But it was only after Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov returned to Moscow after an unusually short, 24-hour visit to Budapest last week that the speculation began in earnest...
...coincidence, perhaps, that the most prominent Socialists seemed to be the least popular. Among government ministers, who often by custom hold jobs as mayors or councilmen in their own towns, eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors...
...many spirited gambles, Lee Iacocca three years ago had the body of a K-car sent from Chrysler's proving grounds near Detroit to a custom auto body shop in California. There the car was rebuilt into a convertible and secretly shipped back East. When Iacocca drove it around Boca Raton, Fla., in the winter of 1981, it won instant admirers. That limited market survey helped convince him that the potential demand for a revived convertible was bigger than anyone imagined...
Other convertibles were available in the U.S., of course, when Iacocca began cruising around Boca Raton in his custom-made number, but nearly all were prohibitively expensive imports that served mainly as playthings for the rich and as auto-show mouth waterers. The principal exception was Volkswagen's Rabbit, introduced to replace the Beetle in 1980. Crafted by Karmann, 12,114 of the ragtop Rabbits were sold in 1981 (price: $10,000) at a handsome profit. In addition, small customizing companies in states like Florida, California and Michigan have been cutting the steel tops off cars since the late...