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...documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that the papers did not belong to ((Alvarez))." Speaking through his attorney, Alvarez said the boxes contained no corporate secrets...
...stunning find followed GM charges that Lopez or one of his colleagues took top-secret documents when Lopez bolted to Volkswagen to head its worldwide manufacturing operations. According to GM, the recovered papers included plans for a minicar that Adam Opel, GM's German unit, hopes to roll out in the mid-1990s. Also among the papers, GM said, were plans for a superefficient new factory where the car would be built. As German investigators sifted through the documents, GM officials said federal prosecutors in Detroit were also probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir...
Neither Volkswagen nor Lopez would comment on the Opel documents, but Piech lashed back at GM in a more personal way. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Piech implied that Louis Hughes, who heads GM Europe, was waging a vendetta because he lost out to Piech last year in the runoff to be Volkswagen's chairman. Hughes may have the last laugh: if GM makes its charges stick, predicts industry analyst Klaus-Jurgen Meltzner, "either Lopez or Piech would have...
...Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...week's end, based on his own testimony, investigators connected Rifkin with the murders of at least 13 women. The bodies of Leah Evens, Anna Lopez and two others had been dumped in remote areas off highways on Long Island and in upstate New York. Three more unidentified women had been jammed into 55- gal. oil drums and submerged in local canals. The skeletal remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found...