ige 8 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1980
Vord ‘no-fault’ divorce trial
tarts before packed court
United Press International
DETROIT — The long-awaited divorce trial of automotive magnate
Henry Ford II and his estranged wife, Cristina, began in Wayne
County Circuit Court Tuesday, the 15th anniversary of their marriage.
The trial was delayed for 45 minutes because of the late arrival of
Mrs. Ford and her attorney.
“She was late for her marriage, she’s late for her divorce,” quipped
Ford’s attorney, Milton J. Miller.
About 100 people, including dozens of reporters and society watch
ers, packed a courtroom designed to hold only 60. Ford, seeking to
avoid reporters, slipped in through a side door.
“I have nothing to say,” Ford said before proceedings got under way
before Judge John R. Kirwan.
Neither side is contesting the divorce under Michigan’s no-fault
divorce law. Miller said the trial has just one purpose — “money.”
“This is not the way we prefer to adjudicate divorce cases,” Miller
said of the intense publicity surrounding the trial.
Some of the best-known names in Detroit society are on the list of
potential witnesses.
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Pinto design ‘as good or better
than other cars. Ford official
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WINAMAC, Ind. — Ford Vice
President Harold Macodonald, tes
tifying in the Ford Pinto trial, called
the Pinto at least as good a car as the
average auto on the nation’s high
ways. He included the placement of
the Pinto’s gas tank in his analysis.
MacDonald said his father fell
asleep at the wheel of his Model A
Ford in 1932 and burned to death
when it hit a tree and caught fire.
“This is one of the reasons I had
great personal concern about the
placement of the fuel tank in the
1973 Pinto,” MacDonald said Mon
day at the opening of the sixth week
of testimony in Ford’s reckless homi
cide trial.
The company is charged in the
deaths of three young women whose
1973 Pinto caught fire following a
rear-end collision.
MacDonald, who called himself
“senior officer responsible for the
car,” cited federal statistics he said
showed the Pinto “was as good or
better than the average car on the
road.”
He said U.S. figures for 1975-76
showed 673 fatal auto accident in
volving fire, of which 13 involved
Pintos. At the time there were 96
million cars in opration, of which
1,850,000 were Pintos.
MacDonald said he was unaware
of another set of federal statistics
showing the 1973 Pinto had twice the
fire deaths of other cars involved in
rear-end collisions. Prosecutor
Michael Cosentino said it was on the
basis of these statistics that the Na
tional Highway Traffic Safety Admi
nistration advised Ford to recall the
Pinto to strengthen its fuel system.
“I am not familiar with those statis
tics,” MacDonald replied to each of a
series of questions in which Cosenti
no cited figures from the study.
Judge Harold Staffeldt ordered
jurors to disregard the questions.
Cosentino told reporters the jury
had heard his figures, and he hoped
they would remember them.
MacDonald, now a vice presdent
in charge of engineering and re
search, was chief engineer for Ford
passenger cars from 1965 to 1975. He
said he not only was in charge of the
1973 Pinto, but he and his son both
owned and drove them.
MacDonald said in rear end colli
sions, the higher the fuel tank, the
more easily it is punctured. He said
that’s why he feels the 1973 Pinto
tank, below the floorboards and be
hind the axle, was safer than tank in
the 1973 Toyota Corolla and British-
made Ford Capri which were above
the axle directly behind the rear
seat.
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FREDERICKSBURG —The late
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz com
manded the largest naval force ever
assembled, but he is most admired,
and perhaps best known, in the na
tion he helped defeat.
Thousands of ships and aircraft
and 2,063,311 men and women
served under the quiet Texas in the
Pacific, but officials of the Admiral
Nimitz Center say he has not been
afforded the honors he deserved in
the United States mainly because he
was not as flamboyant as a George
Patton or a William Halsey.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
bypassed 28 Admirals senior to him
and personally selected Nimitz, a
student of early 20th Century
Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo,
to take command of the Pacific Fleet
which had been broken by the attack
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As commander-in-chief in the
Pacific, Nimitz headed all American
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