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While rolling out its new models, AMC has found a lucrative way to use its excess production capacity by striking an unusual deal with Chrysler. AMC's underutilized plant in Kenosha, Wis., will soon assemble Chrysler Fifth Avenues, Dodge Diplomats and Plymouth Gran Furies alongside the Alliance. The Chrysler work could earn as much as $40 million in added revenues for AMC this year...
Ailing American Motors is looking to cut a deal with a competitor. AMC said last week that the company was negotiating to build Chrysler's full-size Fifth Avenue, plus its Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury models. The proposed pact could help Chrysler as well as enable...
...Gran Pajaten had long been the subject of legend when, in the 1960s, a group of archaeologists managed to locate and partly explore it. The 8,600-ft.-high site was eventually abandoned, however, in favor of more accessible and hospitable digs. That decision may now prove a boon to the University of Colorado; the school has reached an exclusive five-year agreement with Peru to excavate the ruins and study the surrounding area. And because Gran Pajaten's remote location has been a deterrent to looters as well as scientists, most of the artifacts are expected...
...researchers hope to learn much about the civilization of Gran Pajaten, which Lennon describes as "unique" and "totally distinct from the Incas'." He and others suspect that the people were dominated by the more powerful Incas some 500 years ago and then disappeared in the collapse of the empire in 1533, soon after the Spanish conquistadors arrived. Why the Incan culture declined so quickly remains unknown; many authorities blame European-borne diseases like smallpox, against which the natives had no defenses...
...investigators begin prying open tombs. Says Lennon: "We think there's a good chance we'll find mummies, and they may tell us whether there were epidemics that swept through the area." He would also like to understand why anybody would have lived in such a godforsaken area. Indeed, Gran Pajaten seems more like a place to put a prison than a great city...