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Employees at aircraft giant Boeing are hoping for their own breakthrough. More than 32,000 members of the machinists union walked off jobs in Kansas, Oregon and Washington State on Oct. 6 after talks on a new contract broke down. Among the flash points was Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven...
Saudi Arabia agreed Thursday to purchase $6 billion worth of jetliners from the two leading U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. The White House says the agreement will create 100,000 jobs, mostly in Washington state and California. "Although this deal is not quite a quid pro quo, it can be considered a partial payback for our role in keeping Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia's backyard during the Persian Gulf War," says defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Saudis would look pretty bad if they turned to Europe's Airbus to build the planes after what...
...Nevada Test Site, where it detonated hundreds of nuclear devices, and the Tonopah Test Range, the darling of paranormal buffs, who know it by the nickname Dreamland and suspect that all manner of spooky events have occurred there. Even the airspace over Nye is largely restricted to military aircraft. Jet fighters scream up Carver's Big Smoky Valley, occasionally roaring past cars at sagetop altitude. A bank of nuclear-radiation sensors, still religiously monitored, stands outside the county's old courthouse in Tonopah, the county seat. The ultimate metaphor for federal intrusion is the Energy Department's hotly controversial proposal...
...York State two top executives of Tec-Air Services pleaded guilty to charges of having failed to properly test and maintain emergency equipment aboard various commercial and government aircraft--including Air Force One and Air Force Two, used to ferry the President, Vice President and other top officials about...
...Caribbean country for a ceremony at the Casa de Campo, the exclusive resort where singer Michael Jackson secretly married Lisa Marie Presley last year. But Cochran today said that Simpson was at his California home. Reporters staked out a Dominican airport in vain on Sunday, but the rumored aircraft never materialized. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict