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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China's claim to have occupied Lao Cai, a rail junction on the Red River in northwest Hoang Lien Son province. There, according to a Peking dispatch, troops of the People's Liberation Army uncovered stores of Chinese-made weapons and ammunition supplied to the Vietnamese for General Vo Nguyen Giap's war against the U.S. The stores included "soap and towels marked PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA and bicycles made in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Windup off a No-Win War | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Allegiance. The prayer opened the weekly luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...meet the public's and the Government's demand for cars that are less thirsty as well as less polluting, Detroit has no choice except to accelerate its pace of change. Says General Motors President Elliott ("Pete") Estes: "We have made tremendous progress over the last four years. But in the next five years we're going to make that look like child's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...market is worth maybe $2 billion a year, which in Detroit's terms is penny ante. But sales abroad of cars made in the U.S. are rapidly increasing. General Motors last year exported 125,000 cars, up from 98,000 in 1977, and both Ford and Chrysler are doing well. The strongest demand is from Western Europe, especially Switzerland, Belgium and the country where people have prided themselves on making some of the world's best cars, West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Love Affair in Germany | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Last week at a breakfast in Manhattan, ten members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants, Paula Hughes, 47, a vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Good Woman Is Easier to Find | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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