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Hurt by Falling Sales of SUVs, Ford Will Face Plant Closings and Thousands of Job Losses DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co., hurt by falling sales of sport utility vehicles, is expected to close plants and cut thousands of jobs in North America as part of a restructuring program to be announced Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Ford has refused to release details of the plan, dubbed the "Way Forward," which also is expected to include product changes and cuts to Ford's salaried ranks. Ford has about 87,000 hourly workers and 35,000 salaried workers in North America. "It's going to be painful for...

The probe CONTOUR perhaps broken into two Friday August 16, 2002 - 23h16 GMT WASHINGTON, August 16 (AFP) - images taken by astronomers of the University of Arizona seem to suggest that the probe Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR), whose NASA is without news after the firing of its engines Thursday, perhaps broke into two, indicated to Friday a person in charge for the mission. "We could not come into radio operator contact with the probe. The news is very décourageantes ", recognized the director of the mission CONTOUR, Robert Farquhar, of the Laboratory of physics applied (APL) of the...