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...give me a hand?' " So said former Ford President Lee Iacocca last week, talking about how he had just made one of the most spectacular moves in Detroit's long history of high-level executive swapping. Iacocca was appearing at a press conference in the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of his new employer with his new boss, Chrysler Chairman John J. Riccardo, whom almost no one ever calls Johnny. But Riccardo did not seem to mind the unaccustomed familiarity. Speaking of the man just named by Chrysler's board as the troubled company's new president...
DIED. Serge Obolensky, 87, Russian prince who became a publicist and international socialite; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned...
...destitute hero walks into an iron mine, begins working and is soon hired on as a regular hand. But, as Anthony Opat, 19, has found, life unhappily does not imitate art in this situation, at least not at the Ford Motor Co.'s stamping plant in Woodhaven, Mich...
...expect the U.S. to employ noble conceptions of justice and morality in the execution of foreign policy. But in the case of Namibia, the U.S. must recognize that in the long run, the pursuit of justice will have its more pragmatic advantages. In 1975, Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.) told a Congressional hearing, "Independence in Namibia is now inevitable and the implications for long-term U.S. access to resources in Namibia...are clear. Certainly a majority-ruled, independent Namibia would be mindful of what action the United States is taking now to expedite progress toward independence in their country...
Timothy L. Julet Farmington, Mich...