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Do America's Big Three Automakers Have a Future?
Toyota outsold Ford again last month. The Big Three are not all American any more. Will a new contract give new life to General Motors, maybe to Ford and Chrysler as well? Will clean diesel make American cars more competitive? What about hybrids and global warming? Also, peace for Korea and death in Afghanistan.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenToyota outsold Ford again last month. The Big Three are not all American any more. Will a new contract give new life to General Motors, maybe to Ford and Chrysler as well? Will clean diesel make American cars more competitive? What about hybrids and global warming? Also, Korea's leaders call for peace and, on Reporter's Notebook, the shooting death of a Massachusetts soldier who told her family to demand an investigation if anything happened to her in Afghanistan.
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3 storiesLeaders of North and South Korea Call for a Peace Treaty
This week, at their second meeting since the Korean War ended in 1954, the leaders of North and South Korea did something they've never done before. They called for a permanent peace deal . Don Kirk reports from Seoul, South Korea for the Christian Science Monitor .
Read the story6 minFixing the American Auto Industry
Sales at Ford Motor Company dropped 18% last month, and Toyota outsold Ford by 35,000 vehicles—many of which were Made in America. Meantime, workers at General Motors are voting on a contract some say will save the company—and maybe Ford and Chrysler , as well, although skeptics say the union didn't give up enough.
Read the story33 minA Soldier's Mysterious Death in Afghanistan
Ciara Durkin served in a finance unit in Afghanistan. Her family was first told she died "in action." Now the Army says she was killed by a single gunshot near a church. Sometime before she was killed, the Massachusetts National Guardswoman told her family that if anything happened to her, they should press for an investigation.
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