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...most ways, business could not be better for Fiat and its charismatic chairman, Gianni Agnelli. The Italian conglomerate, which manufactures such high-tech equipment as robotics and telecommunications systems, as well as autos and other vehicles, has come roaring back from a string of losses in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fiat's profits increased 113% last year, to a record $884 million on sales of $18 billion. But the company has been unable to escape an increasingly embarrassing problem: about 15% of its stock is owned by Libya, and two representatives from the land of Muammar Gaddafi...
Jorge is a law-abiding citizen of Santiago, an academic. He drives a Fiat, goes to the movies, shops at the overflowing markets, and lives in a nice part of town very near General Pinochet. At 2 or 3 a.m. most nights, he receives phone calls. The anonymous, "unofficial" callers say, "Your children are dead meat. We will cut off their arms and legs." And so on. About twice a year, Jorge attends the funeral of a friend who has disappeared in the middle of the night. Also unofficial...
Kissinger Associates' selected clientele of international conglomerates and financial institutions is as top secret as the papers Kissinger once dealt with, but like all such secrets the names tend to leak: Volvo, Fiat, Atlantic Richfield, Fluor Corp., H.J. Heinz Co., S.G. Warburg investment bank in Britain. Foreign governments, however, need not apply. "We are not lobbyists," Kissinger says sternly. "We do not deal with the U.S. Government on behalf of any client...
Furio Colombo, president of Fiat, USA, explains why his parent company, * which builds airplane engines, agricultural equipment and airports as well as automobiles, turns to Kissinger Associates: "He understands not just the external factors but the company's inside way of thinking, the different kinds of products, different cultural needs. He is both flexible and deep, two things that don't come together easily...
There is also a personal component: when Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli flies in from Italy, Kissinger has been known to call his wife Nancy and have an extra place set at their next dinner party. The president of one U.S.-based company says that "Kissinger offers not only a valuable geopolitical analysis of the world, but also provides valuable entree and contacts to government and business leaders around the world...