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...PLANT being discussed as joint venture by American Motors and Willys Motors touched off merger speculation. A marriage with Willys, with its far-flung international operation, would give American Motors a stronger position in the growing world auto market, plus a foot in the truck market through the Willys Jeep light trucks...
...ramp into the eager hands of the tough Katanga gendarmes. It was Patrice Lumumba, blindfolded and shackled to two of his government lieutenants. The Katanga cops fell on all three, dropped them to the ground in a hail of swinging rifle butts. Then they flung Lumumba into a waiting Jeep. With four gendarmes sitting on him, Lumumba was whisked off to a new and secret jail...
...China border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know...
...brought out of retirement by army juniors to head their victorious junta. General Gursel, 66, is becoming Turkey's most popular figure. A simple and conservative sort, he has forbidden display of his picture alongside Ataturk's in government offices, rides about in an open Jeep through Menderes' rural strongholds, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children...
...three husbands were moved to a prison near Salcedo. There, after a tantalizing delay, the wives were granted permission to make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride to the prison in his Jeep. On the way back, for reasons unexplained, the Jeep driver left the main highway for an unnecessary-and fatal-jounce along a desolate, cliff-edged road...