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Prosecutor says 'ego' led De Lorean to drugs
By United Press International
University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1984
LOS ANGELES — John De Lorean's ego and "driving need to succeed at any cost" led him into the world of drugs in a failed attempt to save his diving sports car company, the government's chief agent yesterday in his opening statement.
De Lorean's attorney countered by telling the six-woman, six-man federal jury that the former automaker was the victim of government agents who were worked into a "feeding frenzy" by demanding their desire to nab a celebrity suspect.
"This case in its very basic element is about drugs, money, pride, ego," Assistant U.S. Attorney James Walsh Jr. said. "It's about how a man's actions affect his own life and him into the dirty world of narcotics, and thence this courtroom."
De Lorean, 59, who was arrested in October 1982, listened intently while the government outlined the charges using a series of colorful charts. His fashion model wife, Cristina, took extensive photographs which exchanged glances with De Lorean.
The silver-haired entrepreneur faces a maximum sentence of 72 years in
prison if convicted on all nine drug counts.
"This case is the story of a man with a dream — John De Lorean," Walsh said in opening his hour and 40 minutes presentation. "How he turned that dream into a nightmare, a nightmare composed of fail, drugs, disgrace."
Walsh said that De Lorean was desperately trying to raise cash to save his failing De Lorean Motor Co. and its Northern Ireland production plant in June 1982 when he contacted a former neighbor and drug smugglers who expressed interest in financing a drug deal that yield a quick profit.
But defense attorney Howard Witzman described De Lorean as a victim of the crime.
"The case is about a feeding frenzy." Weitzman said during an impassioned hour and 20 minute response that followed Walsh's remarks. "It is about isolated agents and a misguided informant . . . who got so hungry they spent $3\frac{1}{2}$ months feeding off the carcass of John D Lorean."
Walsh colored De Lorean as an eager participant, who expressed interest in several narcotics deals and a willingness to drug money through his company.
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LOS ANGELES — John De Lorean and his wife, Cristina Ferrare, enter the Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles. De Lorean goes on trial today for allegedly financing a $24 million drug deal to save his auto company.
Congressmen say that CIA is 'out of control'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congressional critics of the U.S.'s Central American policy angryly said yesterday that CIA efforts to harass the Nicaraguan government were "too militarized of control" and needed to be curtailed.
The their fury was fueled by new reports that CIA agents directed rebel raids against Nicaraguan ports in October, three months before supervising the mining of Nicaraguan harbors — in both cases without adequately notifying congressional intelligence committees.
One of the raids struck the port city of Corinor Oct. 10 and involved a CIA mother ship that stood offshore in international waters as speedboats manned by rebels swept into the port and blew up oil storage tanks.
The revelation "just confirms that
Barnes said Congress "has been misled from the very beginning" about the covert actions against the pro-Soviet Nicaraguan government.
the cIA covert operation in Central America has gotten completely out of control, and it's time to end it." said Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs.
"Initially it was to be a very small, very limited program of small paramilitary units operating along the Nicaraguan-Honduras border with the purpose of interdicting arms," Barnes said. "That meant that we were now 15,000 men in the field, engaged in war with another country."
An aide to Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Durenberger was "extremely unhappy" because he had not been told of the operation.
Guerrillas continue offensive; 3 Salvadoran towns attacked
By United Press International
Leftist guerrillas attacked three towns in an eastern Salvadoran province yesterday as part of a three-week-old offensive they said has killed more than 150 soldiers in the U.S. backed army.
In El Salvador, a battle was under way in the eastern town of Jocorro, halting traffic on the strategic highway to the Honduran border, said Col. Maurice Guzman, second-in-command of the 3rd Military Zone in San Miguel.
In Nicaragua, Indian rebels attacked a settlement in the north and combat raged around the Caribbean port of San Juan del Norte, scene of heavy fighting between anti-Sandinista rebels and armed troops for nearly two weeks.
Col. Ricardo Cienfuego, chief army spokesman, said two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in the fighting that started before dawn with the attack on Jocorro, 80 miles east of San Salvador.
A Defense Ministry communique said the fighting in the eastern Morazan province spread to El Divisadero, north of San Salvador and Oscalia, 20 miles to the north.
The rebels' clandestine Radio Ven-
ceremos claimed that rebel forces
killed 154 government soldiers and
wounded 308 others in stepped-up
combat that began March 24, one day
before the presidential elections.
A Defense Ministry spokesman dismissed the guerrillas' claim, but statements by military officials showed that 152 army troops were killed in the past three weeks. The army claimed 153 guerrillas died in the period.
In Nicaragua, 300 Miskito rebels attacked Sumubila, a settlement in northern Zelaya province, killing four Miskito Indians, injuring 12 and kidding 32 others, the Defense Ministry announced.
Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said late Tuesday that the army launched a successful land, sea and air attack to recapture San Juan del Norte, 230 miles southeast of Managua
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IACOCCA SAID WORKERS are now producing an average 19.3 vehicles each annually, compared to dismal productivity of 10.2 vehicles each in the U.S., and are far short of the 28-30 vehicles each Japanese worker makes per year.
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Chrysler's biggest successes so far this year have been its sold-out Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager minivans. Iacocca said the company is negotiating with the Canadian branch of the United States Workhorse production at the Windsor, Ontario, plant, where the small vans are built.
DETROIT — Four years after it came perilously close to bankruptcy, Chrysler Corp. said yesterday it made a record $705.8 million in the first year of 1984, more money than it earned in any full year in Chrysler history.
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In the first quarter, Chrysler had record sales of $4.9 billion. In the first quarter of 1983, worldwide sales were $3.1 billion. The previous record for a quarter was set in the second quarter of 1972. Chrysler had worldwide sales of $4.1 billion.
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"This is the payoff," said lacocca. "The cost cutting, the productivity improvements and, most important, the innovative new products have resulted in the best financial quarter in Chrysler's history."
THE FIRST-QUARTER results were more than Chrysler's earnings for all of 1983, which were $700.9 million, and surpassed the previous quarterly record of $310.3 million set in the second quarter last year.
The first-quarter earnings translate to $6.4 a share. This compares to net
earnings in the first quarter last year of $172.1 million or $1.97 a share.
Proposals include adding a third shift at the Windsor plant, as well as Saturday and Sunday production. Iacocoa said the automaker also may add a second plant to build the vans, but would not say where.
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