Japanese Car Makers

Your series--front page and Business section--on the travails of the U.S. auto industry in competing with the Japanese repeatedly tiptoes right up to a conclusion, then backs off.

The evidence you present indicates clearly that America’s managers are not doing their jobs, and further have lost the confidence of the workers.

Our business schools turn out number crunchers and social climbers who can hold their own anywhere in the world--but where are the people who know how to lead human beings?

Until we address and answer the leadership question, all of America’s industries--not just the car business--are going to be easy game for foreign competitors.

MICHAEL LeWEY

Altadena