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...hopeless dry hole. Wright insists he knew nothing about the well deal, but the ethics committee wants to probe deeper -- especially because the sale of the well was in part arranged by Morris Jaffe and his son Doug, two Texans who are trying to sell a $3 billion training-aircraft system to the Pentagon...
...huge deal brings GPA's total orders and options to 819 aircraft valued at $30 billion. The busy aircraft manufacturers, whose backlogs are as long as five years, contend that the GPA deal will not increase production delays...
...Japanese inroads in aerospace would be a serious blow to U.S. industrial might. American manufacturers exported $26.9 billion worth of passenger planes and military aircraft and missiles in 1988, which gave the U.S. a $17.9 billion surplus in aerospace trade. These were precious exports, considering that the U.S. ran an overall trade deficit of $119.8 billion last year; the gap with Japan alone was $52.1 billion. U.S. trade woes were underscored last week when the Government reported that the deficit during February widened to $10.5 billion, up 21% from the previous month. The major cause: a fresh flood of imports...
When Frans Swarttouw took over the sleepy Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker a decade ago, he predicted the little company would survive only "if it dares to start digging in the front garden of the American airplane manufacturers." Never has the garden been greener than now. With U.S. airlines expanding their fleets and replacing aging jets, the two major American aircraft makers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, have enough orders to keep them busy through the early 1990s...
When tanks and MiG aircraft zeroed in on their positions, the rebels fell back, taking an alarming number of casualties along the way. Reviewing the failed encounter, a frustrated Rahim Wardak, the battlefront commander of the National Islamic Front for Afghanistan, concluded that the battle that began more than three weeks ago "is turning into a stalemate...