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...offering for LTV. Their combined bid of $450 million bested by $65 million an offer by a consortium of two U.S. weapons- makers, Martin-Marietta and Lockheed Corp. After a protracted review process, Manhattan bankruptcy judge Burton Lifland awarded LTV's missile division to Thomson-CSF and its aircraft operations to Carlyle...
...worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. With thousands of Stingers now lying unused in Afghanistan, some are bound to end up in the wrong hands. Says an intelligence operative: "Stingers are by far the greatest and most immediate threat from terrorism...
Taplin himself, an engineer, has invented several items, including a leak-free piston seal to reduce pollutants from vehicle exhausts which is now widely used. Other Taplin creations include devices to regulate cabin pressure in high-altitude aircraft and speed controls for aircraft engines...
...believe three basic propositions," said Keppel. "One, that the airliner was the companion of several military aircraft, Two, that several of these [aircraft] were down off Sakhalin. Three,that the Korean aircraft escaped the Soviets andwas shot down for reasons unclear...
According to Keppel, the results of hisanalysis of voice transmissions from the aircraft,which he will present at the lecture to night,show that the plane flew for 45 minutes after itwas supposedly shot down...