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Toyota and Datsun, which together brought in nearly 190,000 pickups last year, lead the duty dodgers. But Detroit's Big Three also find it cheaper to manufacture their smaller pickups in Japan and import them. Last year these "captive" imports included 70,557 Ford Couriers, 67,035 Chevy Luvs for GM and more than 3,000 Dodge D50s and Plymouth Arrows for Chrysler...
...most popular method of avoiding the 25% duty is to import trucks in two parts, in which case only a 4% tariff applies. After clearing customs, the chassis (including the cab) is joined to the cargo bed, a process that a Datsun spokesman concedes "can be performed in a matter of minutes." Toyota has a different stratagem: it builds the cargo beds in California and imports the cabs and chassis. The most ingenious ploy is GM's. Chevy Luvs are sent from Japan to Tacoma, Wash., with the chassis and bed loosely attached. The two parts are separated...
...other clown, Speed, played by Paul Dunn, is not so funny. Dunn speaks Shakespeare's prose like an AM radio announcer reading a Datsun ad. What is worse, Lacey has him stand at all times with his weight on one leg and the other knee thrust out at a right angle. Every line or so he shifts his weight. The effect becomes very distracting, and makes Dunn look like he needs a trip to the john...
PHOENIX, Arizona--The large crimson-colored bloodstain is gone now, an uncomfortable memory from the past that most Arizonans would prefer to forget. It's been more than two years since investigative reporter Don Bolles was blown up in his white Datsun while trying to uncover the activities of organized crime in Arizona, and like the blood-stained pavement where he was killed, his memory has now begun to fade as well. Two years later, the asphalt where Bolles was murdered has been repaired, and the Clarendon Hotel, in whose parking lot the bomb blast occurred, has commemorated the event...
...days because the dollar is under intensive care, and everybody asks her how it will fare. Not badly, replies Whitman. Because it is still undervalued, prices of U.S. exports are down and prices of imports are up-and people do respond to price changes. Look at the drop in Datsun and Volkswagen sales in America, she says, and at Detroit's unaccustomed competitiveness in foreign markets. In time, the U.S. will repair its trade balance if-a big if-it can keep inflation from eating away its improved competitive situation...