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...U.A.W., which has saluted Mazda's Hofu training program as part of an "enlightened approach" to operating in the U.S., intends to organize the entire Flat Rock work force. That would create the closest partnership yet between a Japanese car company and an American union. Although Toyota's joint car-building venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif., employs U.A.W. members, the union does not deal directly with the Japanese firm. Both Honda and Nissan use nonunion labor in their American plants...
...slick new cable service, TelShop, a joint venture of Financial News Network and Comp-U-Card International, expects to lure bigger spenders with such attractions as videocassette recorders, vacation packages and exercise bicycles. Another upscale contender, Shop Television Network, which will officially hit the airwaves next week, hopes to stand out from competitors by featuring a celebrity host, Singer Pat Boone, and guest experts like Figure Skater Scott Hamilton...
...C.O.M.B., a Minneapolis discount merchandiser, has banded together with several dominant cable-TV companies (one of them, American Television and Communications, is 80% owned by Time Inc.) to assemble an audience of 15 million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet the new challenges, HSN is in the process of branching...
Although the Soviets did not reveal what caused the explosion, it was apparently the highly volatile liquid fuel of the SS-N-6's. The fuel is "some kind of propellant combined with liquid oxygen," says Lieut. General Richard Burpee, director for operations of the Joint Staff. "Those will ignite on contact with each other, so you have to keep them separate. Handling those two fuels in the same missile is not without its hazards." Because of the danger, liquid-fueled missiles are carried only on older Soviet subs like the Yankee I class, which went into service between...
...fusion reactions that must occur to explode an H-bomb can take place only if the weapon is armed electronically, which cannot happen accidentally. The warheads in the damaged tube "were obviously blown apart in the force of the explosion," says Vice Admiral Powell Carter Jr., director of the Joint Staff. Whether their remnants burned up or sank to the bottom of the ocean, they pose no danger; undetonated warheads contain only a small amount of radioactive material...