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Attacking Iraq could also be messy. Bush would prefer to use unmanned Tomahawk cruise missiles. But he would probably have to send in aircraft as well, and U.S. pilots could be killed or taken prisoner. Saddam could retaliate with the several hundred Scuds he is believed to possess, attacking Israel in the hope that it would strike back and thus strain Washington's ties to Arab allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
...craft combining the vertical talents of a helicopter and the horizontal speed of a normal airplane, would become "a stone in the air" if it lost power while making the change from one mode to the other. Tragically, that proved to be the case for the prototype tilt-rotor aircraft as it was landing at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. Just as the Osprey was shifting from horizontal to vertical flight, with its propellers at a 60 degrees angle, it plunged into the Potomac River, killing all seven people on board...
Attempts to defraud the U.S. government in a sale of military jet engines to Israel wound up costing General Electric $69 million. In a Cincinnati federal court, GE's aircraft-engine division settled civil and criminal charges of conspiring with an Israeli air force general to bill the Pentagon for fictitious parts and testing equipment. A GE manager stationed in Israel between 1984 and 1989 blew the whistle on his employer two years...
...angry exchange of threats between Washington and Baghdad and frantic negotiations at U.N. headquarters in New York City to seek Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...
...fields and writes off other assets. Unocal plans to eliminate 1,100 of its 17,000 jobs worldwide, mostly in the U.S. And Mobil said it is paring 2,000 salaried jobs, or 9.5% of that group. The energy giants joined such diverse blue-chip companies as Hughes Aircraft and Aetna in declaring sharp cutbacks in this summer of economic discontent...