Word: airbuses
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That was precisely the emotion Clinton played upon last month during a visit to Boeing, the troubled aerospace giant, which plans to shed 28,000 jobs. "Very little of that is your fault," Clinton told workers. Instead, he blamed the layoffs on sales that Boeing has lost to Airbus Industrie, a European consortium that does not produce passenger jets as efficiently as Boeing, yet often undercuts the U.S. firm's prices with the help of $26 billion in subsidies from four European governments...
...agents and officers should go in serving as corporate mercenaries. Most backers of the plan want the spy agency only to defend U.S. firms against foreign spies. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini favors making CIA intelligence available to U.S. companies but does not support running special operations against Airbus or Toyota to gather information. Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner wants the agency to run both defensive and offensive operations. "For us to collect and use commercial intelligence is merely a matter of creating a level playing field," says Turner...
Boeing has held "substantive" talks with Germany's Deutsche Aerospace and has met with British Aerospace PLC, two members of Airbus Industrie, the European consortium that has emerged as the U.S. firm's only real rival. The consortium would be pre-empted from building its own superjumbo if one or more of its team enter a deal with Boeing...
...tragedy seemed especially shocking, it may be because its victims were so unsuspecting. Many were watching a soccer match on television; others were sitting down to an evening meal. Unlike the 167 people who died last month when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus crashed in Nepal, the ! victims in Amsterdam had made no decision to assume the risks of flying. They simply happened to live near a busy airport...
...fall of 1988, al-Kassar's operation had been spotted by P.F.L.P.-G.C. leader Ahmed Jibril, who had just taken on the assignment from Tehran to avenge the U.S. downing of its Airbus. A CIA undercover agent in Tripoli reported that Jibril also obtained Gaddafi's support. According to Mossad, Jibril dined with al-Kassar at a Paris restaurant and secured a reluctant promise of assistance in planting a bomb aboard an as yet unselected American transatlantic...