Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!hxe From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American cars: how safe Message-ID: <557@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 11:57:38 EST Article-I.D.: rayssd.557 Posted: Wed Nov 7 11:57:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 06:21:03 EST References: <681@hound.UUCP> Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 19 In reference to the Pinto (or the "Ford Flambee"), a recent article mentioned that the executives who authorized production of the car in light of the known defect were not held accountable. I beg to differ. The major executive of the company, who made the *final* decision to 'go with the deaths', was forced to leave his $600,000- per-year job and take another job at $800,000/year with the Chrysler Corporation, where he managed to finagle a loan from the Government at interest so low it was essentially at the taxpayers expense. The poor man has paid his dues; let's give him a rest. In a Pinto. (I wish I could :-) ) -- --Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe -------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this article are obviously my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Such a foolish notion, that war is called devotion, when the greatest warriors are the ones who stand for peace."