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...scene must have looked like something being staged for a Fassbinder movie. The whiz of Volkswagens streaming along the Autobahn slowed down as drivers ogled the spectacle at the side of the road. There sat a Peugeot with a blown-out tire, and perched on a suitcase near by sat a bespectacled Chinese youth serenely playing Haydn on his cello...
...European auto industry sounds all too familiar to depressed American carmakers. Sales in 1980 declined an estimated 12%, while Japanese imports climbed nearly 30%. Thousands of workers were laid off or had their hours cut back last year, and losses by major car manufacturers are staggering. France's Peugeot S.A. lost an estimated $33 million in 1980, and BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), maker of Triumph and Jaguar, ran $960 million in the red. In fact, BL Ltd.'s very existence depends on its receiving $2 billion in government aid to help pay for development and introduction costs...
...correspondent for the prestigious Milan daily Corriere della Sera, Walter Tobagi, 33, was widely known for his writing about Italian terrorism. Too widely known. As he left his home one morning last May, two young gunmen shot him to death, then fled in a waiting Peugeot sedan. Within hours, the notorious Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder in a long communiqué attacking the Italian press. The bulletin was signed by a newly created branch of the terrorist organization known as the March 28 Brigade, named for the date in 1980 when four Red Brigades members died...
...Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, arrived at the home of Mayor Ibrahim Tawil, 41. He told Tawil of the explosion of Khalaf's car and warned the mayor not to use his own car. Later, when an Israeli army demolition expert approached the locked garage where Tawil's Peugeot was kept, a bomb planted in front of the door exploded, blinding the soldier...
John Glenn, for example: Wolfe sketches him as a bit of a prig, a jogging, strait-laced Presbyterian driving an underpowered Peugeot, who scolded his colleagues for their after-hours whoopee. The current Senator from Ohio, Wolfe suggests, may have gone to NASA officials in an effort to replace Shepard on the first flight. Others, too, according to Wolfe, would act in ways that demonstrated that "feeling of superiority, appropriate to him and to his kind." Gus Grissom almost certainly blew the hatch too soon, flooding and sinking his capsule, and then stubbornly maintained that the machine "malfunctioned." Scott Carpenter...