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...Highland fling of color. In recent years it has become a form of rude sport to guess how the designer would look when he took his bow -- lean and fit or pale and puffy. But when he was absent, the crowd filed out subdued and thoughtful. This rich, elaborate kingdom misses its king...
Known as the Magic Kingdom, Oman (estimated pop. 2 million) is a land of exceptional beauty and diversity. A 1,000-mile coastline arcs southward from the limestone cliffs of Musandam to the powdery beaches of Salalah, a major trading town in the monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes...
Despite modern theologians' scoffing at Satan, New York's Archbishop O'Connor tells of two recent exorcisms and blames heavy-metal rock music for spreading the kingdom of evil...
More specifically, the Cinderella company is GM Europe, a Zurich-based subsidiary that makes and sells 1.5 million West German-designed cars a year bearing the nameplates Vauxhall in the United Kingdom and Opel on the Continent. Last year GM Europe built fewer than half as many passenger cars as the North American division's 3.4 million. Yet the European side accounted for half of GM's $4 billion in worldwide earnings and almost all the company's total profits from auto manufacturing...
...European company is no one-hit wonder. The company has another best seller in its J-class car, sold as a Vauxhall Cavalier in the United Kingdom and as an Opel Vectra in other countries. Rolled out in 1988 to rave reviews for its advanced engines and styling, the Vectra also offers the best fuel efficiency in its class, split-folding rear seats and height-adjustable seat belts. The car can be equipped with an optional 16-valve, four-cylinder engine that even Mercedes engineers have hailed as the best multivalve motor in the world. GM Europe sold...