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Nina Teicholz Visits The New Volkswagen Assembly Plant Near Rio De Janeiro.

NPR
Published December 12, 1996 at 11:00 PM EST

It employs technology that General Motors accuses one of its former top executive of stealing, when he went to work for V.W. in 1993. Jose Lopez insists the idea for the plant at Resende, Brazil, is entirely his own.

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