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...seemed an unremarkable Saturday-night scene: a topless bar in working-class Detroit, shouted epithets, an ugly brawl. But this particular fight was one-sided and fatal, and turned out to be a bleak commentary on the emotions running high in Motor City in June 1982. The victim, Draftsman Vincent Chin, 27, a Chinese American, was at his bachelor party; he was to be married in nine days...
...wonder cars were on display last week at the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, which has become an international showplace for the auto of the future. Said James Murphy, American Motors' manager of advance planning and electronics, who traveled from Detroit to see what Japan had to offer: "This is the best auto show in the world...
With that minute and 48 seconds of videotape, CBS-TV last week gave the nation a riveting summary of the core of the Government's case against the fallen business hero, charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his faltering De Lorean Motor Co. The broadcast came only nine days before jury selection was to start in the trial in Los Angeles. While CBS officials were pleased by their scoop, prosecutors and defense lawyers, plus many of the network's peers in journalism, denounced CBS for unnecessarily jeopardizing John De Lorean...
...from the third year of a depression that slashed auto sales to their lowest level in two decades and cost car manufacturers $5.5 billion in losses during 1980 and 1981. But the Big Three automakers have rebounded so strongly that they are now within reach of record profits. General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler together earned $2.9 billion in the first half of 1983, and analysts estimate that their combined income could reach $6.6 billion for the entire year. Says Louis Lataif, vice president and general manager of the Ford division of Ford Motors: "I have a feeling that...
Heart disease continues to decline but still tops the list of the 15 leading killers, a group that causes 89% of all American deaths. Cancer, at No. 2, is on the upswing as a cause of death. Fatalities from cerebrovascular disease, accidents, motor-vehicle collisions and chronic pulmonary disease are falling. Suicide leaped up the list from No. 10 to No. 8, principally because two ailments once ahead of it, chronic liver disease and atherosclerosis, continued to drop...