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...Last year was an effort to educate the public just about the effects of nuclear war, but now we want to educate people about actual arms control, Paula Gutleve, director of the Boston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), said earlier this week...
Finally, just after 6 p.m. Friday, De Lorean walked out of Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in Los Angeles and into a perfectly sleek black Jaguar with his wife Cristina and his pal Roy Nesseth. And then, punctuation for one chapter in a tale that has seemed like implausible fiction from the start: their Jaguar, with Nesseth driving, was hit by a Cadillac, which was in turn struck by a CBS News crew's car. No one was hurt...
...final fate of De Lorean Motor Co., which made its sports cars at a plant in Northern Ireland, remains in doubt. De Lorean allegedly engineered the cocaine deal to save the company from financial collapse. Last week DMC lawyers in Michigan filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws to protect the company's major U.S. assets-650 cars worth $ 13 million or so-from an onslaught of perhaps 700 creditors. At week's end an Ohio-based company, Consolidated International Inc., reached agreement with British officials to buy some 1,000 unsold cars in Ulster...
...they hated him," says J. Patrick Wright, a business journalist who wrote De Lorean's 1979 memoir, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. According to the book, De Lorean's febrile management style, impolitic brilliance and impatience with bureaucracy worked against him. In a chapter called "How Moral Men Make Immoral Decisions," De Lorean makes much of his own ethics...
Last March Ferguson and the Boston chapter held a recruitment meeting at Harvard and only four students showed up, but Ferguson was not discouraged. "At that time we were introducing the idea," he said. "If anyone, even President Bok wanted to talk about it. I was there, ready to discuss it," he added...