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...president. He is Joseph J. Sanchez, 54, a former Oldsmobile division boss and head of GM Latin American subsidiaries. Sanchez will operate much like the chief executive of a totally new and independent company. Said Smith: "We are not going to handicap him with a lot of preordained rules." Freed from the heavy, established GM structure, Saturn's managers are supposed to move swiftly on several fronts to make cars that are, in both quality and cost, competitive with Japanese models. Currently, for example, Japanese automakers can turn out a vehicle for about $1,500 less than GM, Ford...
...supplemented by lively workbooks starring Batman, Conan the Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants had to pay protection money to hoods in order to keep stores from being trashed...
Although this latest act of air piracy followed a grimly familiar pattern, it threatened to surpass other hijackings in sheer brutality. By week's end the terrorists had butchered at least four of their captives, including two Americans. They freed 146 hostages, but for the dozen or so men who remained on board, tied to their seats, conditions were said to be horrendous. There were reports that the Airbus had been disabled late Friday night by bursts of gunfire that shattered windows in the cockpit and cabin. A freed Pakistani passenger said the hostages had tried unsuccessfully to overpower...
...very talented apologist for the President's horrible policies," contends Marion Edey, executive director of the League of Conservation Voters. "But," she concedes, "when he wasn't busy defending bad policies, he was working hard to improve them." Environmental groups complained that the toxic-waste program, while freed of favoritism, still moved much too slowly. Ruckelshaus urged action to reduce the impact of acid rain, but when he was overruled by the White House, he stoutly defended the Administration's decision merely to order more studies of the problem. Critics also note that Ruckelshaus opposed early renewal...
...last week's elections-subject to certain conditions. Two leading politicians were barred from running. One was Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, 66, leader of the Blanco Party, a traditionally center-right organization that has been moving leftward; jailed upon returning last June from eleven years of exile, he was freed after last week's election. The other was Liber Seregni, 67, a former army general who heads the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), a coalition of five leftist parties. When the votes were tallied, the Colorados had won a 40% plurality, compared with 34% for the Blancos...