European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 13,1990 a workers at the Saturn Plant in Spring Hill Tenn., applaud As the new cars Are rolled out of the facility thursday. Pm tackles import Market with new Saturn models Spring Hill Tenn. Up a general motors Saturn corp. Began shipping the first truckloads of its highly touted import fighting cars from its $1.9 billion Plant thursday. R three Saturn models a red Coupe a Silver Sedan and another Maroon Sedan a were driven out the Plant by Saturn officers and Tennessee gov. Ned Mcwherter amid loud cheers from hundreds of red shirted nonunion Saturn workers or a team a the cars Are the fruit of a seven year $3 billion project by general motors corp. To domestically build a Small car competitive with japanese offerings. Company president Richard Quot skip Lefauve promised no rebates would be used to Spur sales. I want you to print this a Lefauve told reporters As the cars were loaded onto carriers a there will be no rebates at these prices we can to afford to put rebates on last week Saturn announced a base Price of $7 995 last expensive Model Between $1,000 and 42,000 below most projections. At the top is the Saturn so sports Coupe at $11,775. Two other sedans Are priced in Between the Saturn sl-1 Sedan at $8,595 and Saturn sl-2 sports touring Sedan at $10,295. Industry analysts have praised Saturn a pricing although popularly ordered extras like automatic transaxle and air conditioning reduce the advantage As prices enter the $10,000-$12,000 Range. Both Lefauve and Donald Hudler Saturn a vice president for sales service and marketing said they expect Saturn to attract a High number of import prone buyers As Well As those considering other Domestic brands including pm s Chevrolet and Geo nameplates. A it will be plus business for general motors a Hudler said noting that the . Subcompact and compact Market is about 4 million cars Strong and that Saturn has received requests for More information by 14,000 people since Early september. Quot our philosophy is to under Promise and Saturn expects to have approximately 1,000 cars shipped or Enro Ute to about 30 dealers primarily in the South and West by oct. 25, the official sales Date. Saturn is now making about 75 cars a Day and will not reach its 240,000-a-year capacity until late 1991, Lefauve said. Despite generous tax Breaks ranging As High As 75 percent through the year 2025, Saturn officers have conceded that the company will not turn a profit until production is Well into the 300,000-a-year rate after the Plant undergoes an expansion in the mid-1990s. A Saturn a financial condition is confidential All i can say is that we have made a commitment to general motors Board of directors to be the Saturn cars Mark the first High volume use of bodies made from both steel and recyclable plastic. This requires special production processes but the payoff is that St line changes can be made quicker to meet buyer tastes. Its fuel efficient four Cylinder aluminium engines Are cast usog a unique lost foam process which allows greater design flexibility and More integration of components into a smile part. Saturn also is the first . Automaker to produce manual and automatic transaxle on the same but Saturn a Success will be ultimately gauged by showroom sales. Test drives of the first vehicles suggest they do not leapfrog the Competition and Are still in need of some refinement m the suspension engine and wind noise a areas that Saturn engineers Are now working on. Vamp ii Wavu Ute Iivo on. Federal employees sent Home during shutdown May lose pay by the Washington Post i a. By the Washington Post Washington a Federal employees who were sent heme during last weekends three Day government shutdown will not be paid for the work they missed Bush administration officials said thursday night. Before tha ruling was announced several Nofu <5?�, members of Congress moved to Over Thor Ful paychecks 8uaia&Quot, Federal workers Paul Clark a spokesman for the office of personnel management said thursday night that administration officials believe the Sto Dnan re it. Luix Pugnea when the government the admit. ? Money Jast weekend. Clark said the administration does not plan to pay any employee who missed a regular Day of work on saturday sunday or monday because of the budget crisis. Clark said that a a essential employees who worked us the few Elkend 311 those who had a regularly co Umbus Day to Quot do a a by in past years when the government has been temporarily shutdown by budget stalemate Congress has moved to restore full pay to employees to were involuntarily knocked out of work. Thursday afternoon sen Barbara a. Mikulak. D-md., led a up a his ton area lawmakers seeking to do the same this year Mikulski whose constituents include 150 000 Federal worker. Said on the Senate floor that these employee to Abess with mls a and Mies to feed pow Trug a Quot "0t be u5ed a a pawns in a Porto stateside Maryland hiring freeze hinders Corpse research balt More a a staff freeze that has prevented the hiring of a new state embalmer a forced the state to cremate about a dozen human bodies donated for research. Ronald Wade administrator of the mar Lanh Anatomy Board said the bodies were too deter rated to be used in studies. Eri0�?~ the freeze imposed by gov. William Donald Schaefer to ease a budget Ennis has kept Wade from Hing a replacement for the boards previous embalmer who suffered a heart attack last month Wade has run the operation alone while the state considers an exemption to the hiring freeze the Board receives unclaimed and donated bodies and prepares them for use by medical and Dentai schools As Well As Hospital training do Grams. The Board receives about 65 corpses a month and expects almost 800 this lets Fly at priest who clipped Pigeon wings Reno Nev. Up the Nevada humane society is gathering evidence for possible criminal prosecution of a Catholic priest who ordered the wings clipped on pigeons near his Church. Humane society director Mark Mcguire said thursday the report will be presented to the Washoe distinct attorneys office. 0 Jern re pastor St Peter Canisius Catholic Church said the pigeons were a health Hazard with their droppings which also clogged storm drains. Bernard said clipping their wings was the most humane thing to do but the grounded Birds were easy prey for dogs and cats in the area. Mcguire said there were about 100 Birds involved and about 83 have died. A we plan on submitting an incident report for consideration of a criminal complaint a Mcguire said. The 69-year-old priest said a the clipping of the wings consisted of clipping the Long feathers with Ordinary House scissors. As far As the Birds Are concerned my real intentions were Good Colo video screen to Light up times Square new York apr a the Bright lights of times Square will get a Little brighter in november after the unveiling of what is being called the largest permanent outdoor color video screen in the United states. 23-by-32-foot screen attached to one 1 Imes Square is the work of Sony corp. A a a Many officials announced plans for the Jum Boron screen which will replace the old Sony panels that have been in times Square for 20 years. It will serve As a marketing and promotional tool for Sony owned lbs records and Columbia pictures a the Sony video 1 network also will provide news Holiday messages Public service messages and other programming. Lbs records is excited to have this new Large scale medium available to increase awareness of our roster of talented artists a said Bob Altshuler senior vice Island leaders to hold talks with Bush Washington apr president Bush will a cuss economic and Security issues with leaders or Pacific Island nations at an oct. 27 meeting in Hapau White House officials say. The talks will take place during a Bush political swing through Hawaii and California. The main topic of discussion is expected to be the proposed destruction of chemical weapons at Johnston Island 800 Miles from Hawaii. However Deputy White House press Secretary Koman Popadiuk said he could not confirm that. Popadiuk also said he did not know which leaders Nad been invited to attend. But according to Otner White House officials the talks will not include Australia new zealand Guam Palau Ine Northern Marianas american Samoa and
