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Chrysler's problems, though, are only part of the whole American auto industry's troubles, as outlined in a report released last week by departing Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. The report warns that the Japanese will continue to win a greater share of U.S. sales because of lower labor costs, superior productivity and better business-government relations. Goldschmidt, for example, suggests that Ford may one day be forced to move most of its production overseas, which would severely injure basic U.S. industries like rubber and steel...
...Goldschmidt's solution to the automakers' problems is for the U.S. to adopt some of the Japanese techniques. He says that the Government, management and labor should cooperate to cut manufacturing costs and increase profits through such measures as relaxed antitrust laws and slower and smaller wage increases. To buy time for this new effort, Goldschmidt proposes that Japanese auto imports be restricted for the next five years. He gloomily predicts that otherwise only General Motors will survive as a made-in-the-U.S.A. auto manufacturer...
...read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca, Randolph Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Henry Huxley...
...action against the growing realities of a petroleum-short world. Washington produced no energy policy, kept the price of gasoline artificially low and spent $77.8 billion for the construction of the Interstate Highway System, on which Americans could cruise coast to coast at 70 m.p.h. Admits Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt: "The U.S. Government allowed us to go from a nation importing a third of its oil to one importing almost 50% because there wasn't the political courage to deregulate the price...
...relations with Government. Chrysler continues to exist only because of federal aid. Talk of other business-Government agreements in the industry has already started. The Carter Administration has proposed that a group of auto, labor and Government leaders meet to discuss the industry's problems. Says Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt: "We value this industry, and we don't intend to let it fail." Ford President Petersen adds: "It's my job to improve our productivity and efficiency as much as we know how. But I'm saying that when it's all done, that...