Word: detroit
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...demand. U.S. Steel has rehired 2% of its labor force, but that still leaves only 42% of its workers on the job. "There have been a couple of blips, but we don't see signs as yet that this is a basic recovery," says Spokesman Andy Stursky. In Detroit, auto executives predict that 1983 sales will be 10% higher than those of 1982, which was the worst year since 1961. "Ten percent better than terrible is still terrible," says General Motors Chairman Roger Smith...
...Detroit, Mayor Young's administration gets hit by probes...
There may be slight stirrings of rising sales in the auto industry, but almost everything else about Detroit is gloomy these days. Among other problems, a corruption scandal involving at least six federal investigations is plaguing Mayor Coleman Young's administration. The three-term black mayor has not been personally implicated, but he and other city officials have been preoccupied with fending off the various probes...
...judgment may have been blinded by his unwavering commitment to helping black businesses and argue that he did not know that white businessmen actually would profit from these contracts. Even so, the probes have clearly diverted Young's attention from his job. Says Joe Stroud, editor of the Detroit Free Press: "It is a terrible time for the city to be dealing with leadership that is distracted and in real trouble...
...concluded that Barbie might have had links to U.S. Intelligence in the years after the war. Because the Americans were using the Gestapo man to glean information on operations in Soviet-controlled areas, they allegedly refused to turn him over to French security. Erhard Dabringhaus, a language professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, worked for Army counterintelligence in 1948, and claims that he was ordered to find Barbie a safe house in Germany and pay him $1,700 a month, a sum that went a long way in postwar Europe, for his intelligence reports. When Dabringhaus found...