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KIDNAPPED. MAMORU KONNO, 56, Japanese president of a subsidiary of electronics giant Sanyo; in Tijuana, Mexico. Konno was abducted at gunpoint as he left an employee baseball game. Kidnappers demanded a $2 million ransom...
...show, which in recent years has limped through a new-products dry spell, may have regained some of its cachet. Among new consumer products, Sony and other manufacturers viewed lines of video compact- disc players, which provide fare for viewing as well as for listening on standard-size CDs. Sanyo Electric's eye catcher was 3-D television, which does not require users to wear polarized glasses -- and initially will cost at lest $57,000 a set. Both products will be avaiilable...
...companies in a host of industrial nations. The U.S.'s Du Pont is in a race with Germany's Hoechst and Britain's ICI, among others, to develop replacement chemicals for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs). Germany's Siemens is vying with such firms as Amoco in the U.S. and Sanyo in Japan to produce cheap, efficient solar electric cells...
While your Patriots were knocking Scuds out of the sky, we found some new toys of our own. Sanyo has a voice-operated car-stereo system that will swap CDs or summon a radio traffic report on command. Sharp has a new microwave with a built-in blender that will mash potatoes while they cook. Fidelity Electronics came out with a wristwatch that doubles as a biological clock by telling you the best time of the month to get pregnant. It sells...
...East bloc refrigerator costs $2,000, an average worker's income for an entire year. A $35 Sanyo fan goes for $500 -- no small consideration in a country where the daily temperature averages 78 degrees F. Local goods are in short supply too. Thanks to inefficient methods of growing and harvesting, Cuba may be the only tropical island in the world where fruits and vegetables are hard to find. The widening rift between Havana and Moscow has caused other deprivations. The Soviet Union's increasing unwillingness -- or inability -- to continue carrying the Cuban economy has created severe shortages of flour...