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During the gulf war, American commanders announced that allied aircraft had knocked out 30 fixed and 16 mobile Scud missile launchers. Iraq contends that coalition forces failed to hit a single one of its launchers. A spokesman for the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq said last week that some launchers had been destroyed under U.N. supervision and that the Iraqis claimed to have scrapped the rest on their own. There was no evidence to disprove the Iraqi claim. In Washington, the Pentagon's Pete Williams conceded that damage to the Scuds "was less than we previously thought...
Clinton is not alone in highlighting concerns. Last week, the Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Service Committee held hearings on the proposed sale of the missiles and aircraft divisions of Texas's LTV Aerospace and Defense Company to a couple of companies controlled at least partially by the French government...
...plane started moving. I thought it wasgoing to take off." Choe said. A passenger next tohim revealed the reason for the aircraft'srocking. "He said. "That's not the plane, that'sanother earthquake!" Choe recalled...
...slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated 59 American pows from the Korean War. He offered no significant information...
...Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency has determined that the sale of LTV's missile technology to the French firm poses major security problems. Thomson-CSF, aware that access to LTV's Stealth technology would never be approved, brought the Carlyle Group into the deal specifically to buy the aircraft operations. Still, critics object that Thomson-CSF is essentially buying U.S. secrets. Asks a Pentagon insider rhetorically: "Why else would Thomson buy a bankrupt LTV in a declining defense market except to get the technology...