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...suitors have come bearing tax breaks, free land, cut-rate electricity and other goodies. The prize they are all pursuing: the site for the factory that will build the Saturn, a new small car designed by General Motors to be competitive with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center...
...most ambitious of the efforts was started three weeks ago by General Motors. The giant automaker launched Saturn Corp., a separate company apart from the main GM structure, to produce a new subcompact car, starting in 1987. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith said that he wanted the new subsidiary to be free of the mother company's entrenched procedures. Saturn will have its own engineering and design staffs and its own contract with the United Auto Workers. It is to be a test track for new ways of making, selling and servicing cars. Saturn will, in effect, be an entrepreneurial...
Perhaps most remarkable of all was the continuing performance of Voyager 2. Launched in August 1977, it was originally designed to operate for five years and assigned to encounter only Jupiter (in 1979) and Saturn (in 1981), missions that it carried out with great success, sending back data and thousands of spectacular photographs of both planets. But even before Voyager sped by Saturn, NASA decided to take further advantage of a onceevery-175- years alignment of the outer planets by using Saturn's gravitational pull to hurl Voyager on to Uranus, then to use Uranian gravity to speed the craft...
...passed Uranus last week, Voyager looked back at the planet, now silhouetted against the distant sun, seeking to learn more about the rings by observing sunlight passing through them. One early finding: the rings contained far less dust than those circling Saturn. Then, its direction changed by the tug of Uranian gravity, the hardy little spacecraft began a 3 1/2-year trip to Neptune, which it is scheduled to encounter in August...
...Saturn is part of the complex GM strategy for competing in the small-car market. While American automakers are fairly efficient in building large models, they are less successful in turning out small cars, where the profits are not great. Many auto-industry executives believe that because of higher costs and a foreign-exchange rate that favors Japanese exports to the U.S., it is now almost impossible for an American auto company to build a car in the U.S., sell it for less than $7,000 and make a decent profit. GM imports some subcompact models for sale...