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...help make its Mexican car. Ford has teamed up with Toyo Kogyo, Japan's third-largest auto company, after Toyota and Nissan, and the maker of Mazda cars. Toyo Kogyo (1983 sales: $5.8 billion), 25% owned by Ford, will supply engines and transmissions for the Mexican model from its Hiroshima factories...
...some are paid only 56? an hour, against $12.71 for their U.S. counterparts. Ford expects to employ 3,000 workers when it starts to produce the subcompact in late 1986. American union leaders immediately called the move a threat to job security. The Ford plant will become the second-largest automobile factory in Mexico and a tonic for its sickly auto industry, which last year produced 260,000 cars, down from...
...Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry: "All the contentions by Western propaganda that the pipeline supposedly will not be ready by the scheduled date are nothing but an attempt to engage in wishful thinking." But Western experts contend that the fire at the Urengoi station, the largest of 41 planned compressor units, will delay the project perhaps six months. "We believe that the pipeline has been completed in the sense that all the pipe is welded together," said a Washington official. "But to blow gas through the pipeline, you need compressor stations, and only...
...final word has probably not been heard from Liedtke, and the Justice Department could raise antitrust objections to the merger of the third and 14th largest U.S. oil companies. But no matter what happens now, Gordon Getty has achieved his goal of driving up the price of the family's stock. His company holdings, valued at $500 million a year ago, are now worth about $1.3 billion. - By Stephen Koepp...
...style GM chairman is restyling the largest automaker...