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Detroit's automen tooted last week that they intend to raise production in the first quarter by about 7.5% over the high levels of a year ago and that this should help keep the economy humming along. But while Americans are buying a lot of cars, they are also buying too many big, fuel-thirsty models, and the auto marketers are trying to swing sales toward smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles...
...flatly rejected by the Nationalists. Said Chiang Ching-kuo: "[There is] no way for me to allow these two traitors to come to Taiwan." Other Taiwan officials remained highly skeptical of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's assurance to Columnist Robert Novak that China did not intend to lower Taiwan's standard of living after reunification. Said one: "We don't believe a word Teng says. He's a shrewd man, but what he is saying is just baloney." Added another: "Don't believe what Peking says. We know its ultimate...
Even if the conservatives lose in court, they intend to harry Carter's new China policy in Congress. Vowed Ohio's Ashbrook: "We will throw up every conceivable roadblock." They will have several opportunities. Carter will have to seek the Senate's confirmation of his nominee as Ambassador to China. He will also have to ask Congress for funds to open an embassy in Peking and for the approval of changes in the treaty language that are needed to keep in force nonmilitary agreements with Taiwan...
...Still higher increases may be made by companies with special problems, like rapidly rising raw material costs, so long as their pretax profit margins do not go above the average for the best two of the past three years. The trouble is that more and more corporations intend to take this profit-margin approach, which is extremely difficult to monitor...
...disruptions that have earned the Sunday Times, hardest hit by job actions, the nickname Some Times. The papers' 54 chapels (bargaining units) are also being pressed to accept manning reductions and cost-saving new technology. In exchange, management is offering higher wages and better benefits. The two papers intend to trim 700 or more of their 4,300 workers over the next three years through attrition and voluntary retirements...