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Once again, Chrysler made the first and most impudent move in the global direction. It introduced its newest small car, the Neon, not in the U.S. but at the Frankfurt auto show in September. There was much that attracted notice and respect: a small car with dual air bags, antilock brakes, a top speed of 125 m.p.h. and the interior space of much larger cars; and it was built from start to finish in a near record 31 months. The home team from Chrysler's two- year-old, $1 billion Auburn Hills, Michigan, technical center was understandably proud...
...work for more than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...
...recycle little more than 125,000 tons a year. Meanwhile, because of the backlog and the failure of many participating companies to pay their full dues, DSD has plunged $500 million into debt. Much of the money is owed to local governments for collection and storage of refuse; Frankfurt and Stuttgart are threatening to sue DSD or quit the program...
...airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would be lucky to hit Yugoslavia...
...that they could not be shut" -- but only a tiny fraction of them has survived. Quite a lot of that fraction went on view last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in "Daumier Drawings," jointly organized by the Met and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt...