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...regular South African soldiers near the fighting fronts and 2,000 to 3,000 further back, based at Sá da Bandeira or near the Cunene River. Nonetheless, their involvement in the civil war is crucial to UNITA's survival. The South Africans man the heavy equipment-principally Panhard armored cars, 130-mm. artillery pieces and Puma helicopters-that provides UNITA with mobility and firepower...
...June 30 last week marched phalanxes of white-gloved, Belgian-trained units proudly bearing Belgian FN rifles. Next an elite division, trained by North Koreans and sporting Pyongyang-made AK-47 automatic rifles, goose-stepped up the avenue. Then came a parade of American amphibious vehicles, Japanese jeeps, French Panhard armored cars. At the end, to great cheers, 30 Chinese T-62 tanks rumbled by, scarring the broad boulevard, whose floral center strip had been paved over...
...competitive curves and bumps in the road. In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying. In France, where auto sales are off 5%, Renault, Peugeot, Simca and Panhard have reduced their work weeks. By contrast, auto production this year will hit alltime highs in Britain (2,000,000) and West Germany...
Proliferation. Though Europe's 50-odd automakers are not quite ready to embrace Detroit's concept of planned obsolescence, the shapes and sizes of European cars are proliferating. France's Panhard turns out nine mod els, Citroen eight; in West Germany, Ford offers 27 models, G.M.-owned...
Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...