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...sleek Audi 5000, a $20,000-plus import, has run into such a mire of controversy that last week the West German automaker recalled all such models with automatic transmissions sold in the U.S. from 1978 to 1986 -- a total of 250,000 cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which asked for the recall, has logged some 700 complaints that the Audi model suddenly accelerated when the driver shifted from park into reverse or drive. Some 230 injuries and five deaths are blamed on the problem...
...midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...fast-rising issue: industrial competitiveness. Legislators began picking up that term during 1986, often as a politically palatable way to champion trade restrictions designed to help beleaguered industries in their home states. Some of those measures, which Congress is likely to debate in early 1987, could include export subsidies, import quotas or other protectionist steps that the Administration generally opposes. To pre-empt any protectionist bill, the Administration said in December that Reagan would announce his own competitiveness-boosting plan in January's State of the Union address. The Reagan proposal would emphasize increased productivity at home, probably through greater...
Indeed they are. As Paramount prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 1987, the studio's The Golden Child, starring Comedian Eddie Murphy, is the hot Christmas movie, raking in $11.6 million in its first weekend at 1,667 theaters -- despite mixed reviews. Paramount's astonishing Australian import, "Crocodile" Dundee, has just finished its twelfth week as a top grosser, having earned more than $103 million at 1,495 theaters. Headed in the same direction is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which has earned $47.5 million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount...
...understand about America's concern with the trade deficit. Let me set the record straight, though. It's China that has a deficit. We need to export more in order to import more," he said...