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...three young men never made it back to Meridian. Two days later, the burned wreck of their blue Ford station wagon was found twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia. While an army of FBI men and 400 sailors took up a painstaking ten-county search, many Mississippians preferred to believe that their disappearance was all a hoax. "They could be in Cuba," said Governor Paul Johnson airily. "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity," pshawed Neshoba Sheriff L. A. Rainey...
...stood on principle and quit rather than support the actions of the Administrations that hired them. Among the others: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who resigned in 1980 over the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and Press Secretary Jerald terHorst, who quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical fence...
...American workers, most of them supervisors, to Hofu in preparation for next September's opening of its first U.S. factory, an assembly plant in Flat Rock, Mich. Much like the fictional Assan Motors in the recent Michael Keaton movie Gung Ho, Mazda bought a closed-down factory from Ford, which owns 25% of the Japanese company, and is building a new $450 million facility on the site. It is Mazda's largest single investment ever, and the Japanese are sparing no effort to ensure the factory's success...
Labor-management relations will be especially delicate. As Mazda fills the 3,500 jobs at the new facility, the company has been giving preference to laid-off Ford workers, most of whom are members of the United Auto Workers. The U.A.W., which has saluted Mazda's Hofu training program as part of an "enlightened approach" to operating in the U.S., intends to organize the entire Flat Rock work force. That would create the closest partnership yet between a Japanese car company and an American union. Although Toyota's joint car-building venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif., employs U.A.W...
...other things, some 40 advanced computer work stations manufactured by Tektronix, a small, specialized firm based in Beaverton, Ore., along with an unspecified number of computer disk drives produced by Control Data of Minneapolis. Tektronix salesmen apparently believed they had sold the equipment to a West German unit of Ford Motors through a Munich-based middleman named Wolfgang Lachmann. After the equipment was sent to Munich, it was allegedly shipped to a warehouse in Vienna; from there it disappeared...