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Citroën's share of the French auto market has skidded to 21% since 1965, when it held a peak 31%. Profits have vanished, despite 1967 sales of 500,000 cars worth $896 million. Piling trouble upon trouble, Citroën last year bought Berliet trucks, which has earnings problems of its own, and began tooling up for a medium-size car, still three years off, in cooperation with Germany's NSU. Early this year, having also started work on a fast, Maserati-powered touring car, Citroën went to the government for $60 million. Bercot...
Castro's campaign to break through the U.S. economic embargo was picking up speed. On top of recent negotiations for British buses and Spanish fishing boats, two French firms-Automobiles M. Berliet and Richard Frères-an nounced that they will sell $10 million worth of trucks and tractors to Cuba, with the French government guaranteeing up to 90% of the unpaid balance...