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...week gazed with longing at expensive sports cars and custom-stretched limousines. But a real hit of the extravaganza was the new minivans that are now rushing onto American highways. At the Chrysler display, people bounced up and down in the driver's seat and clambered around the interior. Said Edward Thomas from Matawan, N.J., a prospective purchaser: "It's a very practical vehicle and more fashionable than a regular-size van." Car buyers around the U.S. agree. Introduced barely six weeks ago, the mini-vans are now sold out at most dealers...
Chrysler has orders for 100,000 of them, which is enough to keep an assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., across the river from Detroit, operating on two shifts with overtime until mid-July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy...
...face of it, the rhetoric and general aims of Reagan officials appear laudable. "Indian tribes must become more self-sufficient and less dependent on the federal government," says assistant secretary of the Interior Kenneth L. Wasco, who is a Wasco Indian from Oregon himself. "Sometimes when, you're pressed, that's when you make your best decision." While that new power has meant hard choices, for some tribes Reagan's four years have been successful...
...would have to choose a single, powerful chief of staff; the selection would tell a great deal about the direction of a second Reagan Administration. Current betting favorite: Drew Lewis, former Secretary of Transportation and a pragmatic tactician in the Baker mold. Conservative alternative: Secretary of the Interior William Clark, an old Reagan crony who served as chief of staff in California and, not very successfully, as National Security Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice...
When his staff is divided, Reagan can be caught in a crossfire. Last October, as soon as Clark resigned to become Interior Secretary, Presidential Advisers Baker and Michael Deaver lobbied Reagan for promotions: Baker wanted to take over as National Security Adviser, Deaver to replace Baker as chief of staff. Reagan genially agreed, despite Baker's lack of foreign policy expertise and Deaver's administrative diffidence. A last-minute revolt by Administration right-wingers stopped the Baker appointment-and then only because he volunteered to withdraw, not because Reagan made a tough decision...