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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Volume 133, Issue 14 Be sure to log on to our rDreViewl·com Friday online edition. "'V Assembly BY GEORGE MAST spokeswoman for the Chrysler headquarters in Michigan, said. time because of the national bargaining agreement year, so we use Senior News Reporter When the plant is idled in 2009, Tensin said Chrysler would lay the terminology 'idle,' " she said. After months of rumors about the possible closure of Newark's off another 925 employees. While it could occur as soon as April, The one factor people say that could save the plant from clos­ DaimlerChrysler manufacturing plant, word came last Wednesday there has not been a specific date set for when the first 700 workers ing is if a new product was brought in by Chrysler. morning from the Chrysler Group in Auburn Hills, Mich., announc­ will be laid off. However, Tensin said this is currently not being considered. ing future plans to cut 1,600 jobs and ultimately idle the plant by Officials from the plant in Newark refused to comment on the "We have no future product planned for that facility at this 2009. decision. There are approximately 2,100 employees currently work­ time," she said. "Without a product what are you going to do? For 56 years, the DaimlerChrysler manufacturing plant on ing at the plant, which manufactures the Dodge Durango and "I know there will be different perspectives and different hopes, South College Avenue has been one of the area's largest employers Chrysler Aspen. but at this time there is no future product." and a significant contributor to the local economy. With increased gas prices, sales of the Durango have dropped, In a brief speech given at Mitchell Hall Saturday night at the In what some are now calling the "Valentine's Day Massacre," and Tensin said in the third quarter of2005 Chrysler suffered a $1.5 Chinese celebration of the New Year, Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., a nationwide development program was laid out by the Chrysler billion loss. said it has been a difficult year for the Newark area, in part because headquarters to cut its losses by vanquishing the Newark plant and The term "idle" has caused some debate among local officials of the recent announcement. dropping a total of 13,000 jobs nationwide. as to the finality of the decision. However, Carper said the General Motors Company, not far Chrysler's plan for Newark is to eliminate the second shift, Tensin said, at this point, the company was avoiding the word from Newark,. also threatened to close its plant once, but, through approximately 700 employees in the second quarter of 2007, and "closure." patience and hard work, an agreement was reached to keep it open. then idle the plant in the fourth quarter of 2009, Michelle Tensin, "We're not allowed to announce a plant closure at this point in See PLANT page 11 --.. ---- ------""' _... _----- ------- .~..... 2 February 20, 2007 2 News 6 Who's who in Newark 12 Editorial 13 Opinion 17 Mosaic 21 Delaware UNdressed 24 Classifieds 28 Sports THE REVIEW/Sara Davidson 30 Sports Commentary The Chinese New Year rang in the Year of the Boar Saturday night in Mitchell Hall. vv(~l) excJ]]sives Check out these articles and more on UDreview.com • LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES BID FAREWELL TO· YEAR OF THE DOG Dancers and other performers kicked off the New Year at Mitchell Hall • STUDY FINDS WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO MARRY LATER IN LIFE College education, among other factors, leads to delayed marriages . • MICHIGAN BANS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION UD Vice President of Affmnative Action responds UNIV. 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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Kristin Vorce Entertainment Editor publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Enterprise News Editor Corinne Clemetsen, Andrea Ramsay Meghan Lobdell February 20, 2007 3 'It wasn't a stable life' CUBA-U.S. RELATIONS COULD SEE IMPROVEMENT Opposition to restrictive U.S. it is time to end the standoff. Family members testify on Cooke's past policies on Cuba has been mounting Raul Castro has said Cuba for more than a decade, but it may would be open to talks on improv­ BY SARAH KENNEY the bottom of his feet and he could affected his childhood, she said. have reached critical mass with ing relations, but the White House Senior News Reporter not walk. His feet were always "He couldn't play like us. He recent power shifts in Havana and has spurned the offers. Members of James E. Cooke's bandaged, she said. had to limp or walk on his toes to Washington. President George W. Bush family testified in court Friday The men that their mother get around," Sorrell said. With Democrats in control of would probably veto any measure that he had suffered physical and brought home were often violent Prosecutor Steve Wood Congress and 80-year-old Fidel to engage with Cuba, but lawmak­ mental abuse as a child. toward Cooke as well, Alesia said. cross-examined Alesia and Sorrell, Castro having transferred power to ers and lobbyists believe there is Cooke's half-sister, Alesia "One man in particular beat asking them what kind of child his brother Raul while he recovers sufficient support to override a veto Cooke, testified that the defendant ' him and made him stand in the Cooke had been. He cited Cooke's from a serious illness, a course or attach policy changes to legisla­ suffered abuse at the hands of his comer for hours," she said. 24 juvenile arrests and 18 juvenile change may be ahead. tion Bush must sign. mother, Paula. Alesia testified that, as chil­ con.vi cti ons. Polls suggest most Americans Also on the table are proposals "She would beat him with an dren, they often went hungry and Wood also pressed the wit­ want better relations with the island. to allow u.s. citizens to travel to extension cord, a curtain rod - would steal food . from stores. nesses on Cooke's competency as Farm and energy companies would Cuba, to remove tight limits on whatever she could get her hands Their mother sometimes left them a father. In a previous trial, Cooke like to trade and invest in Cuba. money and goods Cuban Americans on," Alesia said. alone overnight. Alesia caught her admitted to having 10 children by Legislation to change trade and can send to their families, and to The other children had to mother shooting up cocaine at seven different women. travel restrictions has been intro­ ease the payment process for agri­ carry him around or push him in a least once, she said. The family Wood showed the various duced in Congress this session. cultural sales to Cuba. stroller when he was young, Alesia moved a lot and the children were child support acts filed against Even many who have fled Cuba say testified, because someone burned often separated. Cooke and stated that Cooke owed "It wasn't a stable life," approximately $12,000 to the GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET Alesia said. mothers of his children. The death of one of Cooke's Alesia defended Cooke, say­ Antarctica's climate has proven is a system that might work to mod­ sons in 2004 was difficult for him, ing he was in jail too often to pay very difficult to understand or predict erate climate change, the researchers Alesia testified. He only entered what he owed. and it has given off contradictory sig­ said, or alternatively might speed it the viewing after almost everyone Cooke was not present in the nals. Both temperatures and snowfall up if a tipping point is reached. had left. He was visibly agitated. courtroom when the Alesia and have remained relatively constant for The other research found that "He tried to take his son out Sorrell testified. He had been the continent as a whole over the past while temperatures have remained of the casket," Alesia said.

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