Page 6-Thursday, August 6, 1980-The Mic
Chrysler
K-cars
debut in
Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - The first produc-
tion "K-Car"-a newly designed high-
mileage, front-wheel-drive compact -
rolled out of a Chrysler Corp. assembly
plant yesterday, carrying the future of
the troubled automaker with it.
"This is K-day for Chrysler, D-day
for Detroit, and a new day for
American," Chairman Lee Iacocca
said.
IACOCCA DROVE the first car, a
yellow two-door Plymouth Reliant
sedan with brown interior, out the front
door, around the plant and into the
back.
He was followed by United Auto
Workers union President Douglas
Fraser in a gray four-door sedan under
the Dodge Aries name, and then came
Gov. William Milliken and nine other
dignitaries. Their cars, and the next
988, will be tested for 5,000 miles before
shipments to dealers begin.
All the speakers hailed the "new par-
tnership" between the federal gover-
nment, and the auto industry. A
prominent feature of the partnership
was the $1.5.billion in loan guarantees
approved by Congress for the
struggling Chrysler. The No. 3
automaker has drawn $800 million in
loans so far under the guarantees.
"I HOPE this car sells," commented
Joe Parisi, a maintenance worker at
the Jefferson Avenue plant. "It's out
jobs."
If it doesn't sell, "school's out" as
Chrylser President J. Paul Bermoser
put it ina recent speech.
The cars are two feet shorter and, at
2,300 pounds, 1,000 pounds lighter than
the models they replace, Plymouth
Volare and Dodge Aspen.
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CHRYSLER CORP. CHAIRMAN Lee Iacocca waves while stepping into the first four-wheel-drive "K-Car" coming off
the line at opening ceremonies in Detroit yesterday. Iacocca drove the car out of the plant past cheering auto workers.
Hurricane Allen sweeps
toward Gulf of Mexico
From APand UPI OFFICIALS FEARED the toll would
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane rise dramatically with reports from
Allen has killed 66 people in its isolated areas. The death count so far:
devastating surge across the Caribbean six in Jamaica, 41 in Haiti, three in the
toward the Gulf of Mexico, officials Dominican Republic and 16 on the tiny
reported. It raked Jamaica with 100 eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia
mph winds and torrential rain yester- where Allen struck Monday.
day, then roared past the Cayman Extreme western Cuba and the Isle of
Islands heading for western Cuba. Pines were expected to suffer the full
Waves whipped by Allen dragged five force of the hurricane late yesterday
people from their homes and into the and early today, and hurricane con-
sea at Port Maria on Jamaica's north ditions could occur in the northeast por-
coast, according to Jamaican news tion of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
reports. One man was electrocuted by a early today, the National Weather Ser-
downed nower line here. vice said.
If Allen follows its current course, it
could threaten the United.States within
several days. New Orleans, La., is 700
north-northwest of Havana, Cuba, and
in line with an arc followed by the
hurricane since Tuesday.
A GALE warning has been issued for
the Florida Keys as the northern
fringes of the hurricane passed through
yesterday evening. Small boats along
Florida's coast, 50 miles south of Fort
Myers, were warned to stay in port.
"I must emphasize that this is still a
major storm," Neil Frank, chief of the
National Hurricane Center in Miami,
said yesterday.
The storm, some 400 miles south of
Miami, was moving west-northwest at
20-25 mph toward the Gulf! of Mexico.
By early evening, the weather service
said the eye of the storm was near
latitude 20.5 north and longitude 81
west, or 200 miles southeast of Havana
and 375 miles east of Cozumel, Mexico.
Hurricane-force winds spread 75
miles to the north and 50 miles to the
south of the center.
The Ann Arbor Film Cooperteve
presents:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7
Dr. Strangelove, Or How
I Learned To Stop Worrying
And Love The Bomb
(STANLEY KUBRICK, 1964)
1, 3, 5, 7 & 9-Michigan Theatre
Dr. Strangelove (PETER SELLERS), on ex-Nazi now-
Acr acnhigheveliliteryadviso, tellsthePrgsi-
dent oft heimpending detructionofthe world i
his wonderful Cold War black comedy on sexual
insecit andTnuclerdeterenceWinner of 60
internaionalawards. Star Pete, Selle, sin m tple
crl,.GEORGE C. SCOTT STERLING HAYDEN,
SLIM PICKENS, and KEENAN WYNN. 35mm.
THE LAST WALTZ
(MARTIN SCORSESE, 1978)
7& 9-Aud A
The Bnd'sfinal pefomanceconsidered by many
tobe the fiest rok lm everalmade. 35mm, Dolby.
Tomorrow: William Friedkin's SOR-
CEROR at MLB.
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