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...armaments were a bonanza for Chadian forces, which routed the enemy by attacking aboard Toyota pickup trucks mounted with light machine guns. Among the haul were more than 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers, countless rounds of ammunition and two giant early-warning radar systems. Western intelligence experts were delighted by the capture of three batteries of Soviet-made SA-6 surface-to-air missiles complete with radar guidance systems...
...devices will fare in the marketplace remains to be seen. Their current price tags will certainly limit sales: Navigator sells for $1,395, and the DriverGuide is expected to cost about $1,000. Toyota already offers a computerized dashboard map on an expensive model sold only in Japan, but while U.S. automakers are testing the devices, none have plans to offer them as options before the early 1990s...
Shortly before 6:30 each weekday, the gray Toyota station wagon glides down the driveway and stops a few feet beyond the steel security fence in Great Falls, Va. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road...
...firms for ignoring minorities. He asserted that blacks in the U.S. own some 2 million Japanese cars but have fewer than five dealerships nationwide. If Japan's businesses do not enter into a "mutually respectful and beneficial relationship" with blacks, Hispanics and women, he told the top officials of Toyota, Sony and other companies, they too may face boycotts. Said Jackson: "I am here to announce that we have enough intelligence to support people who support...
...Japanese auto industry, which employs 10% of the country's work force and generates more than 20% of its exports, has driven into a similarly rough patch. For the fiscal year that ended in June, Toyota Motor, the country's largest car manufacturer, saw its profits fall 17%, to $1.6 billion. That marked Toyota's first decline in four years. For the six months that ended in September, Nissan Motor suffered a $122 million operating loss, its first since 1951. As a result, the company reassigned 2,500 employees to Nissan sales subsidiaries...