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...meantime, Chrysler is melting away. In response to pressure from Obama administration, Chrysler has proposed more plant shutdowns. Set to be closed, according to sources familiar with the discussions inside the company, are assembly plants in St. Louis, Mo., and Brampton, Ontario; engine plants in Detroit, Trenton, Mich., and Kenosha, Wis.; and another plant in Mexico that builds big engines. Chrysler's assembly plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., also has been identified by some analysts as a possible candidate for closure. If executed, the shutdowns would further downsize a company that is already far smaller than it was only...
...last month alone, employees and union officials have held no less than five company CEOs captive after they had announced major staff cuts or plant closures. On March 31, PPR president Fran?ois-Henri Pinault had to be rescued by police after outraged staff surrounded his car following the disclosure of 1,200 job eliminations throughout his distribution group. Such exceptional French acts of intimidation didn't begin with the current recession. Bossnappings have been occurring sporadically in France in response to major staff cuts since 2000, after having been central to frequent factory occupations by radical labor unions...
...government officials and plotting assassination attempts. Vice Minister of the Interior Marcos Farfan said the documents indicated that two members of the group were present when Morales handed out land titles to indigenous Guarani in Santa Cruz province last month - and that they'd supposedly abandoned a scheme to plant a bomb at a recent Morales recent cabinet meeting near Lake Titicaca. More ominously, said Garcia, "we also found documents that speak of future preliminary preparations for an assassination of the President and Vice President." (Check out a story about Bolivia's immense and strategic natural resources...
...pictures of an ammunition plant...
Washington state's Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (April 1 to 30) has fields of blooming tulips to admire. If, like the Dutch did in the 1600s, you catch tulip mania, you can see some rare and unique breeds at the nurseries, and perhaps even plant a few of your...