Word: aircraft
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...large number of big U.S. companies have now admitted making payoffs to foreign officials and political organizations to help win overseas sales. So far, however, none has so stoutly rationalized the practice as the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Last month the nation's No. 2 defense contractor publicly conceded that it has made at least $22 million in such payments. Last week, in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton adamantly refused to name the recipients of the company's largesse, saying that disclosure would jeopardize present and future foreign-sales prospects. Was under-the-table...
...refugees-a middle-aged couple, their daughter and an unrelated male university student-were waiting in the wrong spot. Before they reached Meeker's helicopter, Czech sharpshooters had them in their sights. The two male refugees scrambled inside, but when the girl was 30 ft. from the aircraft, she suddenly stumbled and her leg spouted blood...
...crime jolted a family long accustomed to the luxurious living that wealth affords-a world of multiple estates, private aircraft and gracious entertaining in a circle of New York's theatrical, intellectual and political elite. Edgar Bronfman, 46, owns a $750,000, 174-acre estate in Yorktown, some 35 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, and two fashionable Manhattan apartments, one on Park Avenue valued at $1.5 million, the other a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. Chair man of Seagrams Company Ltd., he is a handsome, hard-driving businessman with an often mercurial temper...
...military weapons that can offset the high-grade hardware delivered or promised to the Arab countries by the U.S.S.R. in 1974-75. These include at least two squadrons (totaling 36 planes) of the U.S.'s F-15 Eagle fighter. The 1,650-m.p.h. F-15 is the only aircraft that may be capable of outperforming the MIG-23 "Flogger," which threatens to be Israel's scourge in the air. Thus far the Soviet Union has delivered 70 MIG-23s to Syria, and others are on order in Iraq and Egypt...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp.-the company famous for its financial troubles, spectacular cost overruns and controversial Government loan guarantees-has now acquired another dubious distinction. Having admitted under prodding by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has slipped at least $22 million under the table to foreign government officials and political organizations, the company issued a defiant statement that sounded almost like an assertion of the right to bribe...