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...industry that once took its lumps together is now finding common cause in areas from public policy to jointly financed advanced research. Ford's McTague, Chrysler's Castaing and their GM counterpart, Arvin Mueller, meet monthly for private dinners in Detroit, overseeing their joint-research programs under a consortium called USCAR, which invests $300 million annually (including $75 million in federal grants) in a range of projects including advanced batteries for electric vehicles, lightweight composite materials for better fuel economy, and environmental improvements on paint and fuel emissions and recyclable parts. No project is more ambitious than the agreement, announced...
...Joint Chiefs' estimates of the military balance on the peninsula have regularly concluded that the North Korean army would falter at the first of three defensive lines that begin four miles south of the DMZ, and eventually be repulsed because of the South's superior equipment and air power. But the Pentagon's independent Office of Net Assessment has reached a darker conclusion. Robert Gaskin, former deputy director of that office, says 1979 and 1991 studies figure that the three defensive lines could probably be breached by a determined onslaught of North Korean artillery. If the South Korean defenses...
...sentence was announced, the show had cameras at the Buttafuoco home to monitor wife Mary Jo's reaction. When Joey was hauled off to jail, correspondent Steve Dunleavy was there to debrief him. Husband and wife were interviewed separately throughout the week, then brought together for a climactic joint confessional. Conceded Mary Jo: "In my irrational moments, I've blamed him." Offered Joey: "I'm no angel, but I love her with all my heart...
...that they would offer a "thorough and broad" package of rewards to North Korea if it first allowed inspection of its known nuclear facilities and resumed talks with South Korea over nuclear issues. Despite South Korea's reservations, the U.S. hinted that the inducements could include cancellation of yearly joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. A Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress spent the year contemplating ways to change lawmakers' staffing and spending. After producing many recommendations, though, none have been enacted...