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DETROIT: General Motors this fall will become the first domestic automaker to mass-market an electric car. GM president Jack Smith unveiled the two-seater EV-1 Thursday at the Los Angeles Auto show. Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter reports that the EV-1 is an update of the Impact prototype that has been in development for the past decade: "This is not so much a technological breakthrough as it is a political coup by Jack Smith that caught the entire industry off guard. It may be a sign that GM is ready to shake off some of its marketing...
...first face-to-face meeting with the press since adding chairman to his title on New Year's Day, General Motors CEO Jack Smith told TIME's William McWhirter and a small group of automotive journalists that he expected the company to see a second consecutive year of profits in the North America. "This was a chance for him to emphasize that GM's financial recovery was not a fluke, and that he's fairly confident that he's returend the company to a much sounder operating structure than it's had in some time," says McWhirter. Smith, whose...
...says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which would place some 70,000 Bosnian Serb Sarajevans under the authority of the Muslim dominated federation. "Though there were very few reactions to the meeting with Admiral Smith yesterday," says Niksic, "the leader of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik, warned on Wednesday that there would be trouble unless the Dayton accord was changed. But he said that he hoped Admiral Smith would help them settle the differences...
...Admiral Leighton Smith went to Pale, the heart of Bosnian Serb territory, on Tuesday to discuss details of the transition to peace. As a reminder of how close to war they still are, Smith and his party, including a dozen bodyguards, traveled in armored vehicles and entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear...
BENEFICIARY OF THE YEAR: Anna Nicole Smith, widow of oilman J. Howard Marshall. Runner-up: Yeshiva University, willed millions for women's education by a frugal IRS auditor...