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Shortly past 8 a.m. on the first Friday of the 1980s, Wanda Paruch leaves her house on McDougall Avenue in Hamtramck, Mich., and sets out on the five-minute drive to work. Normally, she would make this trip three hours earlier, eat a cafeteria breakfast and start her job at 6 a.m. on the fifth floor of the Dodge Main Assembly Plant, putting glue on doors, cleaning out loose bolts and putting a plastic water shield and two pieces of felt into passing Aspens and Volares...
Typical of the many cities or states that face the pension squeeze is Hamtramck, Mich. (pop. 26,000), a working-class town of neat clapboard houses skirting Detroit. Payments for retired Hamtramck public employees could be halted next year. Pension promises in the past were so generous while funding was so skimpy that 99% of the town's property tax income now must be funneled directly into the police and fire pension funds to keep them afloat. One former city employee who contributed only $35 to his retirement plan when he was on the payroll has collected...
...General Motors and 16.2% for Ford. At its present pace, Chrysler would need more than 200 days to sell off the substantial inventories of its big New Yorker and St. Regis models. In May lacocca announced the closing of the second plant in 30 days, the large factory in Hamtramck, Mich.; 2,200 of its workers will be laid...
...assailants did not want to leave behind. Or he may have been taken somewhere else and killed. Brill believes that Hoffa's body was later completely destroyed in a large trash shredder, compactor or incinerator-or some combination of all three-at Central Sanitation Services in nearby Hamtramck, Mich. The refuse-disposal company is owned by two Detroit crime figures, Raffael Quasarano and Peter Vitale...
Through Dark Woods. On a less exalted level, the flight from Communist oppression is well exemplified by Julius Koco, 34, a muscular, sandy-haired machinist in Hamtramck, Mich. Koco was born and reared in the Czechoslovakian town of Nové Zámky, near the Hungarian border, and his earliest memories are of the Communist seizure of power, when "they began to take things away from people." Even when he was in school, "they used to close the school down and everybody would have to go out and dig sugar beets or potatoes. Later, when I had a job, I only made...