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...Mercedes-Benz model that the German company will build in Vance, Alabama, and plans to sell for as much as $60,000 when production begins in 1997. Not to be outdone, BMW roared into the market in February by paying $1.2 billion for an 80% stake in Britain's Rover, whose sports-utility vehicles include the $52,000 Range Rover County and the $29,000 Discovery; both arrived in the U.S. in April. (Rover expects to introduce a more luxurious version of the County in the U.S. early next year...
...Thursday night, gunmen armed with assault weapons ambushed a Land Rover belonging to three British aid workers near a food warehouse in the central Bosnian city of Zenica. The bandits took all three to an isolated spot, where they executed the driver and wounded the other two as they fled. The Overseas Development Administration, which manages British humanitarian aid to Bosnia and carries 40% of U.N.-distributed supplies, suspended its deliveries...
Where does all that leave NASA's more traditional strengths, deep-space science and human space flight? Diminished, perhaps, but not eliminated. Interplanetary spacecraft can be shrunk and adapted to serve both science and industry. Take the Pathfinder probe. Costing a reasonable $150 million, this ; robotic land rover will parachute to the surface of Mars in 1997 and roam around sampling the planet's atmosphere and geology. Says Larry Dumas, deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, where Pathfinder is being developed: "You're getting back to a scale of spacecraft that we really haven't seen...
Vatican garages house six of the four-ton, bulletproof Popemobiles. And a surprising 14 other heavy-duty papal vehicles stand at the ready around the world. (The one John Paul rode through Denver last month was shipped up from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to Britain in 1982, shortly after the Pontiff survived an assassin's bullet. Since then, almost everywhere John Paul went, new Popemobiles were sure to appear -- manufactured and generally donated by Renault, Peugeot, GM, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, among others. Last week, on his trip to the Baltic states (his 61st...
...good times in the Rockies are producing a distinctive old-and-new life- style laden with a backpack of paradoxes. Its trademark is no longer the pickup truck with rifle rack driven by a blue-collar hunter but the Jeep Cherokee or the Range Rover maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching...