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Show THI ('apt- DAM V Ml KM I) t'im.i. 1'Uh. Sunduv IW7 I Auf!u-- Isuzu sues Consumers Union over report on Trooper rollover risk By Associated Press Vt called test last August." by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. MICHAKL WHITE nler LOS ANGELES Isuzu Motors Ltd. sued Consumers Union on Thursday, accusing the watchdog group of manipu- lating road tests to cause Isuzu's Trooper sport utility vehicle to tip during sharp turns. Based on the tests, Consumers Union declared the vehicle prone to rolling over and asked for an investigation Consumers "The Trooper is a safe vehicle," declared Terry Maloney, senior vice president and general manager of American Isuzu Motors Inc. "They knew it, when they deliberately Maloney declined to say how much money the Japanese automaker lost, but sales figures reported by the company show that during the first half of 1997 Trooper sales plunged 53 percent to 4,313 vehicles. Richard A. Bowman, an attorney specializing in product said defenses, liability confident that our tests and impartiajity will be upheld in that form," the Yonkers, group said. Last summer the group's Consumer Reports magazine Isuzu Trooper gave the 1995-9and 1996 Acura SLX, nearly N.Y.-base- a manipulated Union said it stood by its tests and conclusions. "We welcome an opportunity to place our data and reports before any court or jury and are The administration declined after conducting its own test. " he Trooper to cause a told a news conference. "They knew it when they first published the results of their so- tip-up,- Union drivers up on two wheels," he said. , Consumers The National Highway Traffic turned the steering wheel of the Trooper faster and farther Safety Administration denied than drivers normally would, Consumers Union's request to launch a formal investigation of even in an emergency. A videotape, which he said the Trooper's safety after conwas taken from inside a ducting its own tests. Instead, the administration Trooper during a Consumers in that Union test, showed the driver concluded key Union tests the Consumers the wheel as quickly whipping wheel was turned much as two revolutions to prosteering more sharply than "a driver is duce sharp turns. "Consumers Union drivers willing or able to make in drove the Trooper recklessly and response to an unexpected deliberately to force the Trooper event." identical sport utility vehicles, its rare "not acceptable" rating. lawsuit seeks Isuzu's unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. d 6 Granite Furniture's "After Market" Truckload Sale Continuesl Treasure divers must pay for beds sea-gra- ss By MAKIKA kinlil LYNCH Knhler Newsp.ipeis KEY WEST, Fin. A leg- endary family of Keys treasure hunters will have to hand over iron cannons, silver forks, and more bronze medallions than half a million dollars to Uncle Sam. a federal judge J'l J FURNITURE COM '""''''''''""""'""V ruled Wednesday. Judge Edward H. Davis found the salvors liable for destroying more than an acre s beds of irreplaceable off the Middle Keys. The decision, which ended the first Fjorida Keys National sea-gras- a. L m ........ it H w ma. jm i u jr k a jp, n got truckloads of brand new furniture arriving from our recent trip J We've Cm Fmnricrn Furniture Market! We're clearina our warehouses to . hA -- make room, so we're ottering Marine Sanctuary enforcement action to reach trial, affirmed the sanctuary's authority to obtain penalties for unpermitted treasure salvaging within the area surrounding the Florida Keys. "People will now understand there are consequences if they violate the rules," said Caroline Zander, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. 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