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...make ketchup; we don't make politics." JACK SMYTH, senior vice president at American condiment giant Heinz, denying any involvement in the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry. Kerry's wife, Teresa, is the widow of Senator H. John Heinz III, great-grandson of the company's founder...
DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...
...CAPTURED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor; by bounty hunters; in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Luster fled the U.S. in January, when he jumped bail of $1 million. He had been sentenced in absentia to 124 years in jail on more than 80 charges, including date raping three women. Luster lived off a trust fund and investments believed to total about $31 million. He has been deported to Los Angeles to begin his prison term. ?By Carmen Lee, with bureau reports...
Ford, which marks its centennial in June, is in deeper trouble. It lost nearly $6 billion in the past two years, and since 2000 its North American market share has fallen 2.8 percentage points (GM's is down 1.5 points). CEO William Clay Ford Jr., the founder's great-grandson, is focused on cutting new-vehicle development time from the current three years (a full year longer than industry leader Toyota) and increasing parts-and-platform sharing. Ford's new Futura sedan, due in 2005 to replace the outgoing Taurus, will use a Mazda platform that Ford plans to leverage...
...WANTED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, swinging bachelor and great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor, after jumping bail of $1 million while on trial for charges of raping three women and drugging them with gamma hydroxybutyrate, the so-called date-rape drug; in Ventura County, California. Luster videotaped his assaults on two of the women, declaring in one tape: "That's exactly what I like in my room. A passed-out beautiful girl." Luster has pleaded innocent; if convicted of over 85 criminal counts, he could face up to 150 years in prison...