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TIME's William McWhirter says that a reported deal between General Motors Corp. and the Chinese government to build a GM plant in China has vast potential for huge auto sales in the largely untapped Chinese market. But, he adds, it also brings to light tremendous risks as the auto giant prepares to go into business with the unpredictable Chinese. "Remember, the Chinese still write their own trade laws," says McWhirter. "It is more than just putting up a car plant. This partnership will require GM to share a great deal of technological expertise. A real concern is that...
...Beach, which caught both hurricanes, a defiant banner still flies above a popular restaurant called the Sound. It's a relic of the last storm that reads WE'RE OPEN ANYWAY, ERIN. But now the Sound is full of broken glass and water, not to mention two large stranded motor yachts. The restaurant--like much of the Emerald Coast--appears to be closed for the season...
...Baker, 31, a veteran Greenpeace activist, starts the Zodiac's 15-h.p. motor, and Matthew Whiting climbs aboard from the ketch. Whiting, 36, is lately of the French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen...
...Baker, La Rebaude reaches a flotilla of protest boats at a spot in the open blue ocean--139.05 degrees W, 22.30 degrees S--about 15 miles off Mururoa. One-masters and two-masters crowd the site; the Manutea, a Greenpeace boat carrying journalists, heaves into view. French picket boats motor slowly at the line of the exclusion zone. A French jet labeled MARINE mock-strafes the boats one by one, diving from about 1,000 ft. to not more than 150 ft., then rising and diving again. Military helicopters buzz about, low enough for the mustaches of the harnessed, helmeted...
Says Roberts: "The Ford Motor Co. is betting its reputation. If it's wrong, it's going to hurt us, but I think it's the right gamble to take...