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...presidential preference poll taken in February among Democrats had Lee Iacocca, autobiographer and star of a popular TV commercial, coming in third -- and he's a registered Republican! No matter. He is, as the pundits used to say, "presidential timber." Only now one says he has "star quality," what the French might call that mysterious "je ne sais quoi." Or, as Woody Allen once put it, that "je ne peux pas." Peter Ueberroth certainly has it. It is only a matter of time before he declares for something or other. Does he belong to a party? Who knows? Who cares...
...IACOCCA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Iacocca...
...previous roles, Lido (Lee) Iacocca has mostly been the tough-talking star of his own Chrysler commercials. But last week on NBC's designer cop show, Miami Vice, the gung-ho CEO was back in the thespian driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative...
...certainly gives us immediate help in countries where we compete with Komatsu of Japan." American carmakers also are delighted because the declining dollar removes some of the $2,000-per-car cost advantage that Japanese auto firms have held in the U.S. Partly as a result, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced two weeks ago that his company will begin selling cut-rate versions of its Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon subcompacts next May for as little as $5,499, less than comparable Japanese autos...
Some reports had it that Chief of Staff Donald Regan was behind the ousting. His dislike of Iacocca stems from the controversies over Chrysler's billion-dollar bailout when Regan was Secretary of the Treasury. But the White House stoutly denied any involvement in Hodel's decision, and the Secretary agreed that he had swung the hatchet without help. When Regan learned about Hodel's decision, he said simply, "Fine, it's his call...