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...rocket science here," Garber says...
Consider recent events in Lebanon, which is effectively under Syrian control. Earlier this month, the Israelis displayed relative restraint in responding to rocket assaults on its frontier communities by guerrillas of the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah. Syria eventually put a clamp on the attacks. Significantly, neither side broke away from the Middle East negotiations in Washington...
...fighting resulted in the death of 13 Israelis and Lebanese, including civilians on both sides. Hizballah managed to fire a Katyusha rocket into northern Israel, killing a teenage boy, while Israeli air, sea and artillery attacks likewise claimed a handful of innocent lives. At week's end Israeli tanks were poised along the Lebanese border, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah was calling for a general mobilization of his 3,500 fighters...
...president, Jack Smith, was looking for last spring to join his team of bureaucracy busters. Rock's daunting assignment was to revive the company's most broken-down division: Oldsmobile. The nameplate, founded in 1897, was once renowned for powerful roadsters equipped with big V-8s like the Rocket 88. But the modern Oldsmobile suffered from an enervating loss of identity and fell disastrously in annual sales from 1 million cars in 1986 to less than 400,000 currently. Olds tried to entice younger buyers with the ad slogan "This is not your father's Oldsmobile," but it succeeded only...
Following the Saturn example, the Oldsmobile division plans to produce some new models that will bear no mention of the Olds name or its rocket logo. The first will be Aurora, a full-size sedan that will go on sale in 1994. While GM may continue to de-emphasize the Oldsmobile nameplate, the company has no plans to shut down the division entirely, contrary to rumors that it might do so. In its new guise, Olds plans to concentrate on midsize cars to compete with the likes of the Ford Taurus and Toyota Camry, giving up most...