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...industrial relations: "This whole company is paralyzed, and we'll start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million new cars and trucks for 1985. Strong auto business helped the economy grow at a 3.3% annual rate for the three months ended Sept. 30, up from 1.1% for the first half of the year. Small-truck sales in particular are booming, and dealers are looking forward to buyer reaction to new models...
...other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed the "Trojan Horse" incident, and thousands of people turned...
...what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential seal to make the place seem properly official. A tiny pen holder shaped like a Sara Lee truck cheeerily waved the bakery's banner. Reagan entered, the door closed, the men who run the U.S. huddled...
...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...
Sixty percent of the monikers stem from mergers, acquisitions or divestitures. Republic Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel merged into LTV Steel. Other conversions occur because executives are looking for a new style. Zenith Radio sought to be up-to-date by becoming Zenith Electronics. International Harvester, a truck manufacturer that was near bankruptcy two years ago, plans to change its name this year. It may become Navistar, evoking an image of starry skies instead of cornfields. A heavy truck by any other name, however, is unlikely to be sweeter...