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...that the IAEA surveillance equipment installed at the nuclear sites has run out of film and battery power. Pentagon officials caused jitters in Pyongyang by telling reporters they were weighing plans to reinforce the 37,000 American soldiers stationed in the South, deploy Patriot antimissile batteries or dispatch some aircraft carriers to bolster Seoul's army. "We are responsibly thinking about every conceivable thing that could happen, bad and good," said Clinton, after a briefing by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and other senior defense officials...
President Clinton met with Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss options for dealing with North Korea's refusal to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities. Possible actions include sending an aircraft carrier and reinforcing Army troops on the Korean peninsula. The White House insisted that the review was only a precautionary measure. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that it could no longer guarantee that North Korea was not constructing nuclear weapons...
...dividends companies reap from overeager local politicians are staggering: McDonnell Douglas was offered more than $1 billion in incentives for a planned aircraft plant by several competing cities. In 1991, Minnesota offered Northwest Airlines $840 million in assorted goodies for the privilege of hosting a giant aircraft maintenance center. Ypsilante, Mich. earned the dubious distinction of snagging a GM plant at the cost of $1.5 billion in incentives, only to see GM subsequently shutter the plant and shift production to Arlington, Tex., which offered a fresh round of relocation incentives...
...example is Boeing, the largest U.S. exporter, which produces 60% of the world's commercial aircraft. Hobbled by U.S. defense cuts and a global slump in the airline industry, Boeing's 1993 third-quarter profits slid 45% from last year. In response, the company is cutting 23,000 jobs through mid-1994 while at the same time attempting to slash in half its 12-to-18-month delivery time for planes...
While all four passengers aboard the aircraft were killed, the skydiver managed to open his parachute and sustained only a fractured leg and a broken ankle, Culver said...