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Towards the end of the war, a Bechtel subsidiary, Bechtel-McCone, started building bomber planes for the U.S. military. Afterwards, workers involved testified in court that Bechtel was guilty of war-profiteering, for adding fictitious overhead costs to the government's airplane bill. The charge was thrown out on a technicality...
...deal if you comparison-shop, Washington style. The $310 million price tag, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson points out, is far short of $2 billion for just one of the CIA's KH-12 satellites. And it's just one-eighth the cost of a B-2 bomber: "$300 million?" Thompson notes. "That's barely enough for an airbag...
...cases at 16 other plants around the country. About 4,000 workers at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant north of Cincinnati filed a class action suit in 1990, alleging that many of them contracted cancer or leukemia because of exposure to radioactive material between 1952 and 1985.ANOTHER TRADE CENTER BOMBER? Just when the mystery behind the World Trade Center bombing seemed wrapped up, Canadian authorities detained another man wanted for FBI questioning. Charles Lee Knox, a.k.a. Mohammad Abbas, was arrested Friday in Ottawa. The Feds want to know if he's connected to a Libyan terrorist group--and if that...
FUNDING THE B-2 BOMBER: Even Defense Secretary William Perry recommended that Congress cut from the Defense Department Authorization Act $150 million earmarked to keep some production lines running for the B-2 bomber, since Congress has already paid for the full contingent of these $1 billion-a-copy Stealth planes. Still, the Senate, by a vote of 55 to 45, rejected the Pentagon's advice, opting to spend the money anyway. A yes vote favored a reduction in funding...
...Cayhall, in his late 60s, is a onetime Ku Klux Klan bomber convicted in his third trial of blowing up the law office of a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967 and of maiming the lawyer and killing his two small sons. All that can be said in favor of Cayhall is that he shows a certain gritty courage as his execution approaches and that he regrets the death of the two boys and of a black man he killed in a rage years before. He was raised in a K.K.K. family, however, participated in several lynchings, and still believes...