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There is no way to put a price tag on the damage done to Union Carbide's image in the 38 countries, from Nigeria to New Zealand, where it has factories and the 130 nations in which it sells products. In West Germany, protesters last week spray-painted the words POISONERS and PIGS on the walls of a Union Carbide plant and dropped two gasoline bombs at the site. One exploded, but there were no injuries...
Mazda's U.S. venture will bring it closer to Ford, which already owns 25% of the company. The Mazda GLC sedan is marketed by Ford in Australia and New Zealand as the Laser. The proposed Michigan plant will probably put 3,500 people to work in an area of high unemployment. By the end of 1988, the factory could be turning out vehicles at the rate of 240,000 annually. Ford is expected to buy some of the cars and may put the Mustang name plate on them. Fast-growing Mazda has been crimped by import restraints that limit...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
Runcie sympathized with those who felt "moral scandal" over the exclusion of women. He admired those of the 619 current female priests he had met in the Anglican branches that have ordained them. (The U.S. has 474; Canada, 97; New Zealand, 40; Hong Kong, 4; Uganda, 3; and Kenya, 1.) But, Runcie continued, Scripture and church tradition are "highly dis couraging to the idea." Saying that he has "consistently driven down the middle of the road," he soothingly advocated "gradualism," with more experience of women as ordained deacons or lay ministers before any change is made...
...data was interpreted as real by the North American Air Defense computers in 1980, for example fewer than five minutes separated the finger from the button. Airline navigation is a similarly dramatic example; bad data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told by a navigation computer that they were over water when in fact they were head; g straight for a mountain-side. Investigators have hypothesized that similar problems confused the pilots of Korean Airlines flight 007 that...