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Tuesday midafternoon the journalists headed back to Tegucigalpa from Las Trojes, where they had been checking on firing by Nicaraguan troops into Honduras to harass contra insurgents. Just after the two men's rented car, a white Toyota, passed Honduran Truckdriver Jose Cruz Espinal, he saw a grenade split the car almost in half; then machine-gun fire spattered the road. The shots came from terrain held by Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than...
...laid-off employees at two of its closed California auto plants for high-paying positions in the aerospace and data processing industries. Yet only 1,522 of the 5,400 eligible workers at its Fremont plant have signed up because many think they will be rehired when GM and Toyota begin building small cars at the plant...
...Lynn Townsend was Chrysler chairman from 1967 to 1975. - Ranked by cars and trucks produced in 1981, the 15 largest vehicle manufacturers in the world are: GM, 6,240,380; Ford, 3,730,319; Toyota, 3,220,418; Nissan, 3,100,968; Volkswagen-Audi, 2,210,666; Renault, 1,810,365; Peugeot-Citroen-Talbot, 1,593,943; Fiat, 1,209,819; Toyo Kogyo (Mazda), 1,176,608; Mitsubishi, 1,094,793; Honda, 1,008,927; Chrysler, 1,002,464; Lada (U.S.S.R.), 830,000; Daimler-Benz, 712,315; Suzuki...
...different parts of the world, he envisions a setup in which Chrysler would undertake joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to get economies of scale or low-cost labor or design or technological expertise. The combines he talks about do not sound so different from the one GM and Toyota announced last month, a collaboration in California on the manufacture of a subcompact car. However, lacocca rails against that one because GM and Toyota are so enormous and powerful already...
...Toyota-GM deal has also aroused workers' anxiety. Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda, who signed the agreement with GM Chairman Roger Smith, said that the venture may not necessarily hire back laid-off GM employees. The companies have even stirred fears that they may try to run the plant without union labor. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser, who welcomes the enterprise, said last week: "Getting jobs for Americans is more important than whether or not they belong to our union." If that sounds magnanimous, it may be because Fraser is sure that without the U.A.W., there will...