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...took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already fly F-16s -- received freebies as well. Athens took in a fleet of 80 A-7 and F-4 warplanes, 671 M-60 tanks and a guided-missile destroyer; Ankara received 28 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 822 M-60 tanks and 72 self-propelled howitzers. Strangely, few of the beneficiaries of the largesse take advantage of the chance to view the gear before delivery. "Many countries," the General Accounting Office (GAO) notes, "decline the offer because they cannot afford the travel costs associated...
Many U.S. weapons now being built -- including most state-of-the-art F-15 and F-16 fighters, M-1 tanks and AH-64 helicopter gunships -- will be bound for foreign customers, not the Pentagon. The new policy being formulated by the Clinton Administration may include up to $1 billion in loan guarantees to finance more overseas sales. The Administration says such sales are not a domestic jobs program in disguise. "The basic reason for selling weapons overseas has been to advance our foreign policy goals," Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon says. "It is not to create jobs...
...will then use the $2 billion profit from the sales to buy 75 new F-16s for itself. The McDonnell Douglas Corp. is helping Kuwait sell its fleet of A-4 attack planes, hoping that Kuwait will use the proceeds to buy the company's F-18s and AH-64 helicopters...
...Ah, sweet, sweet revenge...
Storytellers are tyrants, masters of sadistic caprice. They invent a character, put him through hell, maybe kill him off -- ah, maybe not -- to make a moral point, or just because they feel like it. They resemblehanging judges, and sometimes they must feel uneasy about their power over life and death, love and loneliness. Perhaps that is what prodded Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (himself a lawyer), to create Three Colors: Red, a movie about a judge racked by guilt, regret and his need to keep eavesdropping on other people's crimes and pain...