European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Rush to buy bigger cars sweeps . Detroit up americans Are buy fact they Are going out of style and demand for the last of the big cars is a major reason for the Industry s record performance in Early june when new car sales topped last year s by ii per cent to shatter a 5-year-old record. It was the big car divisions such As Cadillac Bulck and Lincoln Mercury that led the sales charts with new records. The Standard sized Ford and the big Chevrolet were the top Sellers both for Ford and Gen eral motors which paced the Industry inthe june to period. Pm Sai is were up 18 per cent. Ford in creased 12 per cent american motors topped last year by 3 per cent and Chrysler alone among the . Companies dropped 12 per cent it was the second consecutive period in which am sales topped year ago Levels feat the slumping Small car Auto company has t been Able to accomplish since lat March in 1976. The big car sales Aren t dying. That for sure one Industry analyst noted. Interest in Small cars has increased since president Carter s mid april Energy crisis message but most of the demand has been for imports which have set sales re cords in each of the past three months. Domestic automakers however said their Small car sales Are increasing. But midsize and larger models both the downsized versions offered by pm and the carryover models from Ford an Chrysler showed the most sales strength. That segment has grabbed better than s3 per cent of All new car sales so far this year compared with less than 53 per cent through the first five months of 1976 a percentage difference that translates into about 62,000 cars. Detroit automakers really Are not sur prised by the demand for their larger models since they have pretty Well Tele graphed that All cars in the next four years will come Down in size. Even pm s Down sized Standard models like toe Chevrolet Caprice will have to undergo another shrinking before they la be Small enough to meet Economy standards for the 808. There s a lot of people who think they won t be Able to get a six passenger car in a couple of years and Are buying now in Stead of waiting another year or two one analyst noted. Some of the products de troit has on the boards will Surprise them though because Many Are Able to main Tain the Interior dimensions by Topping off a lot of excess on the thursday june 16, 1977 Freedom smile Albert Palange a and his daughter Lisa ii hold hands upon us arrival at Kennedy Airport from Cuba where he and nine other american were freed from cuban jails. The group flew to new York via Mexico dry. Up Princess flies to . For namesake tribute London a Princess Anne hew tothe United states wednesday to join in a tribute to a Royal namesake and ancestor Queen Anne. The Princess 26, Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth ii will spend five Days in Washington and Maryland with her husband army capt. Mark Phillips. Highlight of the trip will be a weekend in Centreville my. Where the Royal couple will take part in the second annual Queen Anne s Day Celebration. The Centreville gala is a birthday party for Queen Anne county which will be 271 years old. During the festivities a statue of the Queen who ruled Britain for 12 years before her death in 1714, will be unveiled by the Princess. They were to lunch in Washington thurs Day with president Carter s son Chip and his wife. This is the third time Princess Anne who is expecting her first child in novem Ber has visited the United states. She and her brother. Prince Charles heir to the throne were guests of former president Richard m. Nixon in Washington for three Days in july 1970. 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The members met tuesday with Ham Ilton Jordan president Carter s top aide and patronage chief and bluntly informed him they Are unhappy with the president s record in that area after nearly six month sin of flee. Jordan told the elite of House democrats he has t returned their Telephone Calls or messages because of problems in ousting some 1,200 Republican holdovers and get Ting clearance for appointees. The closed door grilling before the democratic steering and policy committee and regional whips More than 30 members in All lasted for More than an hour rep. Walter Flowers d-ala., said "1 made the statement that i be been in con Gress five terms 10 Yean and have been waiting on the democrats to take Over the White House so we could have a More Friendly reception at this end of the line. I made Many recommendations some of which i indicated a Strong interest in Flowers told Jordan. It s the inability to get any answers from you. T made five Calls and not one was said Flowers. He also told Jordan i Don t know of one person in this room or in Congress who has gotten even a gs-1 a general schedule-1 appointment is the lowest on the civil service commission scale. It looks to me like some of this should have been taken care of by March flow ers said. He said the same subject was taken up with vice president Walter men Dale at a closed caucus of House democrats nearly two months ago. Jordan reportedly told the group that Fri checks and also checks for conflict of interest Are time consuming for proposed appointees to policy making positions e also said there Are still some 1,20v republicans protected from dismissal by civil service in those sensitive Don t you do what lbs Lyndon b. Johnson did to solve the civil service problem suggested rep. William Ford d Mich. He transferred them let them move in their furniture and then transferred them again. They soon got the another member not identified bluntly told Jordan we Veall worked our Butts off to get Carter elected. Certainly we should expect something to have happened by this Jordan took the Brunt of the criticism but he was not alone. With him were Jim King personnel director at the White House Frank Moore chief of congressional Liaison and Bill Cable newly appointed assistant to Moore in charge of House liar French Oil firm denies Adair paid $6.6 million Paris up a spokesman for the French Elf Aquitaine Oil company said the company was misquoted in press reports saying Paul red Adair received $8.6 million or stopping the Eko tisk North sea Oil Rig Blowout in March. The j6 6 million is part of the total Cost of the Blowout the spokesman said. It includes or. Adair s be. But it definitely is not Only or. Adair s the spokesman for Elf Aquitaine which has an 8 per cent participation in Trie Eko Fisk Oil Field said he did not think the figure of Adair s fee had been determined yet and said it won t be released because it is a strictly private Adair denied receiving ffi.6 million for stopping the Oil leakage off the coast of Norway
