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During his visit to Italy, Jaruzelski also met with Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli. The very fact of the meetings was a victory for Jaruzelski, who is striving to end Poland's isolation and re-establish financial ties with the West...
...wheeling and dealing would provide the rest of his education. In 1956 Khashoggi garnered a contract to supply trucks for the Saudi army. The pattern was set: the deal, the commission, the party, more contacts and contracts. By 1962 Khashoggi was the sales agent in Saudi Arabia for Chrysler, Fiat, Westland Helicopters Ltd. and Rolls-Royce. "One association," he says, "led to another, one business to another." For Western companies, Khashoggi was the man to know in Saudi Arabia...
...South Korean partner. Ford just missed winning another major ally when it failed two weeks ago in an estimated $2 billion bid to buy Italy's Alfa Romeo, the ailing manufacturer of sexy sports cars. Alfa's current owner, Italy's government, decided to sell the company to Fiat instead...
...price scale, South Korea's Hyundai Excel has made a dazzling debut. The $4,995 subcompact has sold more than 130,000 units so far in 1986, a record for an imported auto's first year. Much less ; successful was the invasion of Yugoslavia's Yugo, a remodeled Fiat that sells for $3,990 and is billed as the cheapest new car in the U.S. The monthly Consumer Reports urged its readers to buy a good used car instead. So far in 1986, fewer than 28,000 Yugos have been sold...
Alfa Romeo is in bad shape, having lost an estimated $170 million last year. Even so, Ford had wanted to use Alfa's products to compete in the European and U.S. markets for luxury sports cars now dominated by such rivals as Mercedes- Benz and Jaguar. But Fiat was eager to protect its No. 1 position in Italy by keeping Alfa out of Ford's hands...