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Hyundai (rhymes with Sunday) will offer U.S. buyers a front-wheel-drive subcompact and a rear-wheel-powered compact, both made in its modern factory on an 86-acre site in the port city of Ulsan. This year the plant's production capacity will be increased from 150,000 to 300,000 vehicles a year in anticipation of U.S. sales. Just what the subcompact will look like is known only to Hyundai officials, who have code named it the X car. It will be unveiled in March and is expected to sell for as little as $5,000. That would...
When a rising tide of refugees briefly provoked rioting in the city of Port Sudan three years ago, Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri came under mounting pressure from some members of his government to close his nation's borders. Nimeiri would have none of it. During a climactic Cabinet meeting on the issue, he interrupted the debate and dramatically invoked the ancient Arab tradition of hospitality toward strangers. Said the President: "They are the guests of Sudan...
...Saads were injuired when a car containing an estimated 200 pounds of explosives exploded under the family's Five-story apartment building in the port city of Sidon...
...commuter who gets a seat, salvation is a card game. Pinochle and hearts are played on the Syosset line, bridge on the Port Washington line. On the Oyster Bay line sanity is preserved by a swift suppression of sociability. The man standing with the chiming clock says that not enough of his usual players showed up tonight. Day after day, week after week, month after month, for 17 years, he has been playing pinochle with the same people. Are they friends, godfathers to one another's children, comforters in sorrow, celebrators in joy? "No, off the train we dislike each...
...both the Government and its critics. Morison's fingerprint turned up on one of three U.S. satellite pictures that had disappeared from the desk of an NISC colleague and found their way into foreign hands. The photos showed a Soviet aircraft carrier under construction at a Black Sea port. The Government, however, cannot contend that Morison was dealing with an enemy: he turned over the pictures to Jane's Defence Weekly, a British magazine that published them last August. FBI analysis of the ribbon in Morison's office typewriter indicated that he wrote two letters to his British editors...