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...Lake Winnebago, lifts will boost the price tag on each new bus $15,000. Operating and maintenance expenses will tack on an additional $5,000 each year. City-council members worry about finding enough money to both continue the Handi-Van service and install lifts on the city's fleet of twelve buses, half of which are due to be replaced this year...
...Chrysler owns Thrifty. Now a foreign manufacturer is getting into the act. Last week Mitsubishi Motors became the first Japanese owner of a U.S. agency when it bought control of Value Rent-A-Car for an undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi currently supplies 10% of Value's 20,000-car fleet, a share that will rise to 85% by year's end. After the agency has used the cars, it will turn them over to the company's dealer network for resale. And Mitsubishi hopes the arrangement will boost its profile by allowing renters to try out new models. The automaker hopes...
...Environmentalists responded with glee. "It was an incredibly wise and incredibly responsible action," said Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, who is a co-sponsor of a dolphin-protection bill. But August Felando of the American Tunaboat Association contended that the action would only serve to penalize the fishing fleet, which has improved its methods for protecting dolphins...
...long-range bombers and advanced fighters out of Guam. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has offered to accept some air units from Clark in his country. Subic's facilities, on the other hand, cannot readily be replaced. They include extensive machine shops that maintain the U.S. fleet with low-cost labor unavailable at alternative sites in Singapore or Japan...
...promised to remove 120,000 troops from Soviet Asia and Mongolia, that would still leave 600,000 along the Soviet border with China. At least 10,000 troops are based in the northern territories just off Japan that were seized by the Soviets in 1945. The Soviet Pacific fleet of 77 ships and 120 submarines has access to ports in North Korea as well as its own facilities in Vladivostok...