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...Democrats can't count on California, which supported Ford against Carter in 1976. That leaves just the South as the most important region to capture. And since Southern Blacks automatically vote Democrat, it means that Southern whites will have the crucial swing vote...
...billion- a-year U.S. auto industry. For increasingly robust Chrysler (1986 profits of $1.4 billion on sales of $22.6 billion), the deal would merely add AMC's piddling .7% car market share to the bigger firm's 10.3%. That would still leave the merged company far behind No. 2 Ford (18%) and GM (39.6%). But the purchase will help Chrysler solve a pressing problem: its factories do not have the capacity to produce enough cars to meet demand. Chrysler had started easing that production crunch by contracting out the assembly of various Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth models...
...purchase of AMC's Jeep line helps Chrysler, which has led the way with such innovations as the minivan, leap into a market segment where it is not represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
...Topeka obstetrician, in one of the nastiest campaigns in Kansas history. Says Roy, who shares Dole's flair for vindictive rhetoric: "He was a slasher and a cutter. You almost felt he cut for the pleasure of cutting." Recalling how Dole ranted about "Democrat wars" when he was Gerald Ford's vice-presidential running mate, some analysts still argue that his hot and highly partisan style may have cost the G.O.P. the White House...
...series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb to the temptations of self-pity or despair. Betty and Gerald Ford have witnessed some extraordinary changes in life and in politics, and the sounds that now emanate from the Betty Ford Center may be the cheery clatter of the last laugh...