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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes february 1981 nestled in a Valley in the Shadow of Hie bavarian this Church has seen Many a Winters Snow come and go As a frosty Good morning in Bavaria the but Little change in the Southern German the coun try Church in the Hamlet of Wil parting near Rosenheim is like so Many in a a Symbol of the religious heritage of the around it rises the Early Detroit autoworkers experience morning Mist from the inn River on a cold Winters Day that leaves the Trees covered with photo japanese car factory likened to american prison a Tokyo a an american Auto worker who has just completed a two week study of the japanese automobile Industry concluded that he would rather work on a Chrysler Assembly line because Japa Nese plants Are much like being in an Amer ican United autoworkers member Don Quen Neville and Wayne state University social sciences professor Martin both from spent two weeks touring Toyota and Nissan motor one of the startling differences we saw in touring these plants is that there was no visible management presence on the shop floor in a Way that such a presence would be visible in american said who spent 20 years As a production worker and Union official before fire kills 6 injures teen in up six Small children were killed and their teenage brother was critically injured in a fire that roared through their fire officials the parents of the Eulacee and Jennie escaped through a win the Blaze levelled the one Story House and was so intense firemen could not search for the victims until the flames were taking up his University we also noticed nobody spoke on the Assembly which was kind of horrify said nobody we were told that if a worker Falls he has to work through part of his break to catch Japan won about percent of the Auto Market in 1980 while sales of produced autos dropped 20 the Eschief of French army Dies in Paris at age 60 Paris a Claude Van re who retired for health reasons As chief of the French general staff in died in the army Val de Grace military sources he was succeeded in the top military Post 28 by Jannou was a career army officer who joined the French resistance in was arrested the same year and de ported to the Buchenwald concentration after world War he served in indo China and at the defense ministry in after going through the French War he commanded a Batalion in Algeria in 1959 before serving on the army chief of staff in worst performance in 20 among key differences Glaberman said he observed were that japanese workers tend to function in Small groups on the shop floor and that and Low Ersevel identified Only by la Bels on their work alongside rank and file he noted that corporate solicitude for workers extended beyond the factory including Low Cost apartments or Low interest Loans for employee the Point is that if you add substantial pay increases through length of service housing subsidies and continual indebted Ness to the company for housing Loans and so it int simply that workers expect to stay employed a Long its that they have to stay employed a Long Glaber Man they have no you cannot go somewhere else and get equivalent you have to Start All Over at the he he also quoted from a report by Tokyo University professor Kyoshi Yamamoto who said Union balloting at Nissan and else where is conducted under supervision of Union officials so that the candidate hardly Ever More than one gets a 100 percent vote from the lower Union representatives have to write letters of explanation and apology if the vote Falls below 95 or 97 in Eastern Glaberman that tends to be called so where would Quenneville rather work he i would associate working for Nissan or Toyota much like being in an american compared to the democracy in american the actions on which a member in Japan can take on the shop floor is like being in a Nissan spokesman Tadaaki Yukawa told the associated press that Nissan would write a letter of disagreement to both men and that Many company employees were upset Over their they said a lot of misleading and very negative things about Nissan Yukawa raw carrots May Cut lung prof says London a eating raw carrots May help to reduce risk of lung cancer for lessors accordin8 to a leading British pro sir Richard head of the Eide Resur a stains Imperial cancer told an antismoking con Ference that above average consumption of v1lamn a found in could 40 per cancer by As much As  
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