Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sergeant Dale Jackson returns to his Detroit ghetto home in a morphine induced stupor, drained by emotional stress and battle fatigue. After an initial feeling of release, he grows despondent, spending most of his days lying in bed staring at the ceiling. Tortured by a recurring nightmare in which he stands looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional...
...MIDDLE WEST: One of a handful of the region's communities that date from the 18th century, Detroit will re-enact on July 24 the 1701 landing of its founder, French Explorer Antoine Laumet la Mothe Cadillac. But many Midwestern communities that want to emphasize regional history in their Bicentennial celebrations have had to draw on the events of a century after the Revolution. In Indianapolis, the state museum is constructing a diorama portraying the exploits of Frontiersman George Rogers Clark. A group in Chicago is restoring several turn-of-the-century mansions that were once owned by such...
...DETROIT--Cellar Dwellers...
Indeed, sales of imported cars are rising even more rapidly than sales of the Detroit makes are plunging. So far in 1975, foreign-car sales in the U.S. are running more than 20% ahead of a year earlier - when they were down in line with the general market - while American-made cars are off 12.9%. At last count in February, the imports grabbed 21% of all sales, up from a supposedly normal 16% last year and their biggest market share since the 22% in August 1971, when dollar devaluations had not yet driven up the prices of foreign cars...
...years or until U.S. automakers introduce models now on the drawing boards that can compete more effectively on price and gas mileage. Meanwhile, some foreign-car sellers are beginning to wonder whether their share of U.S. sales may be increasing a bit too fast for their own good. Though Detroit has not asked for tariff protection, a recent statement by the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers...