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...rested its survival strategy on what Chairman Gerald Meyers calls a "three-legged stool" of small cars, Jeeps and steady Government contracts for postal vehicles and military tactical trucks. Since 1974, AMC's line-up of cars has shrunk from six to three: Concord, Spirit and Pacer. While analysts say that they are not making money, the high-profit Jeep continues to rake it in. There was some sales softness earlier in the year because of its fuel thirst, but the Jeep rebounded strongly in September and October...
...left to die along the roadside if they were too weak to walk. At the camps, Cambodians of all ages were forced to work from dawn until after dusk planting rice. Families were separated, Buddhism abolished as the state religion and virtually every trapping of civilization disappeared: postal services, telephones, currency, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly...
...from the bench: "An individual in Pennsylvania has confessed to committing all six crimes." Ronald Clouser, 39, who closely resembles the priest despite a 14-year age difference, had already admitted committing three robberies in Pennsylvania. An industrial engineer, Clouser was on leave from his job with the U.S. Postal Service because of emotional problems. Clouser's lawyer stated that his client wanted to "exonerate Father Pagano of acts for which he was wrongly charged." Said Clouser: "Father Pagano has unjustly suffered for six months." He added: "I'm not a habitual confesser...
...first issue, Hemingway brought with him Ring Lardner Jr. and John Dos Passos. Gingrich believed that an editor edits best who edits least. Esquire's third element was sex-from the Petty and Varga pinups to harem cartoons- which got the magazine in early trouble with the postal authorities...
...trade unions, a potential source of trouble for any Tory government, especially this one, were given immediate attention, with a velvet glove. Last week 370,000 teachers continued their disruptive slowdown, postal workers threatened a possible walkout, and power workers were voting by mail on whether or not to accept a 9% pay offer already approved by their union bosses; a rejection could mean an early showdown with the government. Despite Thatcher's tough stand on the abuses of union power, her moderate Employment Secretary, James Prior, quickly convened back-to-back meetings with leaders of both labor...