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...leaders have launched a hard-sell campaign, dubbed U.S. Jobs Now, which features a slick video sent to Capitol Hill lawmakers. "We have a potential customer, and we're trying to make sure that customer gets a fair shake inside the U.S.," says John Capellupo, the president of McDonnell Aircraft. The contractors' argument is that if the U.S. turns down the deal, the Saudis will go to a European manufacturer. The Saudis have 96 F-15s, which they began acquiring in the early 1980s, but when the U.S. refused sales in mid-decade, the Saudis acquired British-made Tornado jets...
Other sources reached at the office of the PLO chair said 12 people were aboard the aircraft. They included three crew members and a team of bodyguards and administrative assistants...
...appealed to France, Italy, Britain, the United States and Egypt "to help with all possible means to locate the aircraft...
...made every effort, and we were unable to do it." But the real problem, Navy insiders grumbled, was bad judgment at the top. Said an officer: "Initially there was no high priority for this assignment. We were told to look for the ship, no more." Meanwhile the vessels and aircraft best equipped for spotting the freighter in the 800,000- sq.-mi. area, the aircraft carrier America battle group, were carrying out exercises hundreds of miles away...
...intrument Anderson created for the ER-2s use lasers to detect molecules as the air flows through it. Because ER-2 aircraft do not have command communication with the ground, information is stored by an on board computer and is analyzed after the plane lands...