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Overseas Sales. For Lockheed, big foreign sales are especially critical. The nation's second biggest defense contractor (after General Dynamics), Lockheed has been financially shaky ever since it ran into mammoth cost overruns on the C-5A cargo plane in the late 1960s. It received a near lethal blow in 1971 when Britain's Rolls-Royce, maker of the jet engines for the company's civilian L-1011 TriStar, went bankrupt, and Lockheed eventually lost $300 million, due in part to canceled orders. A recent rescue operation, under which Textron Inc. would have provided $100 million...
...mass exodus from Saigon really began three weeks ago, a huge Air Force C-5A transport took off for the U.S. with a load of orphans andaccompanying adults. Less than an hour later, the plane crashed in a paddy, killing 206 of the more than 300 passengers aboard. Last week TIME learned that Government investigators have agreed on the probable cause of the disaster: a defective latch on the door of the rear loading platform...
...5A climbed, the air pressure outside the aircraft gradually diminished. Meanwhile, the pressure inside the cavernous holds and cabins was built up. At 23,000 ft., the pressure from within had grown too great. The improperly latched door blew out, followed by the ramp and other pieces of gear...
...found two dozen children who claimed they had at least one living parent. Interviewer Nhu Miller talked to a twelve-year-old boy and his two sisters who said their parents had been persuaded by nuns to turn them over to an orphanage. The children, who survived the C-5A crash near Saigon that killed 200 persons early this month, arrived in San Francisco and were destined to be separated and sent to three different European countries. Susan Shaffer, a volunteer in the Presidio's immigration room, found that most children being processed were accompanied by only the spottiest...
...refugees, said that all tots handled by her agency were either truly orphaned or had been deliberately -and irrevocably-handed over for adoption by their parents. Dempsey acknowledged that some children might have arrived in the U.S. minus their requisite papers, since many documents were lost when the C-5A went down...