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...feds came down hard against the nation's top automaker, targeting General Motors' controversial full-size pickup. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced today that C and K series models of that truck made from 1973 to 1987 pose an unreasonable safety risk. The location of the gas tank outside of the main-body rails makes the vehicles vulnerable to fires in side-impact collisions, officials say. The finding could lead to a government-ordered recall later this year of the 4.5 to 6.3 million such vehicles that are on the road, which could cost $1 billion. The government action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM TRUCK SAFETY QUESTIONED | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...clues. Though the black box of voice recordings from the crew was recovered, it revealed only uninformative cries of "Oh, God" and "Oh, s---" and the words "traffic emergency" followed by a scream. "We're all very much at a loss to explain this accident," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who hurried to the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ripped From the Sky | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...upheaval that began with the armed rebellion in Chiapas led by angry peasants and included political assassination and kidnappings of wealthy businessmen. Such fears helped the party in power, which offered security and familiarity even to the multitudes who have yet to share the fruits of economic reform. Federico Reyes Heroles, director of the magazine Este Pais, thinks that the split of just over half the votes for Zedillo and slightly less than half for the opposition "is a faithful picture of what the country feels like" -- wanting change but shrinking from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People's Choice, Really | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Perhaps the most important imaginative relationships in young Dali's life were with people, not paintings: the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the future filmmaker Luis Bunuel. United in their loathing of bourgeois convention -- Dali and Lorca coined the term putrefact for any stale idea or piece of kitsch that offended their nostrils -- the three were, in fact, very different creatures. Bunuel never lost his anarchic iconoclasm, whereas middle age ended Dali's; but the films they made together (An Andalusian Dog, 1929, and The Golden Age, 1930) remain classics of provocation. For a few years, Lorca and Dali found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

UNESCO head Federico Mayor was in Boston this weekend to discuss four possible joint projects between UNESCO and environmental group Earthwatch, Earthwatch President Brian A. Rosborough said. The two organizations will work well together because they have similar aims, Mayor said...

Author: By Robert S. Lee, | Title: UNESCO Head Speaks At Earthwatch Meeting | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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