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...East African Safari starts in Nairobi, Kenya, and winds up, 3,100 miles later, precisely where it started-if anyone gets back. Last week's Safari was barely under way when a Volkswagen driven by the Kenyan team of Tommy Fjastad and Bev Smith shot over a precipice, plunged 100 ft. and burst into flames. Somehow, both Fjastad and Smith escaped unhurt. Other drivers found the road blocked by elephants, giraffes, antelopes-and a whole pride of lions, which refused to budge despite blaring horns...
...make use of Yugoslavia's cheap labor and get in on the growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...
Last week, in the comfortable Sao Paulo suburb of Brooklin, Brazilian plainclothes police, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal, picked up Stangl. He had just returned home from his mechanic's job at a Volkswagen plant, was relieved to discover that the cops were not Israeli agents, like the ones who had nabbed Adolf Eichmann. Said Stangl: "I knew I would be captured." Sighed his wife: "Franz was always an excellent head of the family, although a little too austere...
...figures are minuscule by the standards of such Western giants as General Motors, Ford, or even Volkswagen. But in Skoda's case, they are significant not only to Czechoslovakia but to all of Communist Eastern Europe. If nothing else, Skoda's snappy, rugged little family compact, the 1000 MB, proves that Communism can at least try to compete in highly competitive western auto markets. Where such products as Russia's Zil and East Germany's Trabant have failed to make even the smallest dent in the Western market, Skoda's 1000 MB has become increasingly...
...production started in 1964, Chief Designer Frantisek Sajdl made extensive studies of Western compacts. His four-door 1000 MB has a 48-h.p., four-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine that sits astern of the rear axle. The car's top speed is 78 m.p.h. against 74 m.p.h. for the Volkswagen bug; it gets 38 miles to the gallon against Renault's 39. While far from fancy, the plastic interior trim is durable. Its two front bucket seats fold back for sleeping, and the car's rack-and-pinion steering makes for good road-holding quality...