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More than any of its predecessors, this contest pivots on high-tech advances. All competitors now have winged keels for stability, as well as sophisticated onboard data processors. Some syndicates were aided by government specialists and their supercomputers. The blueprints for French Kiss came from the labs of Dassault-Breguet, the French aircraft manufacturer famous for its Mirage fighter jets. A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip...
takeovers of the Dassault-Breguet aircraft company, two steel producers and three companies partly owned by U.S. and West German interests...
NATIONALIZATIONS. Most of the remaining private banks, some 200 in all, will come under direct state control as soon as the enabling legislation goes to the Assembly in the fall. The Socialists will move to take over eleven major industrial groups, including the Dassault-Breguet aviation conglomerate, two steel companies, two chemical conglomerates, two high-technology firms and an electronics corporation. Three companies would be exempted from peremptory nationalization because of their significant foreign shareholdings: CII-Honeywell Bull (47% U.S.-owned), International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.'s French subsidiaries (99% U.S.-owned) and Roussel Uclaf Pharmaceuticals (57% West German...
...recent years he has made millions as an arms procurer and builder of military bases in Saudi Arabia. Ojjeh's spokesman dismissed the reports as nonsense, and at week's end he was said to be negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf of the Saudi government. Nor has Ojjeh's opulence declined. At last count he owned ten Rolls-Royces, 30 Mercedes and two Boeing 707s. Says he: "I do not lack the necessities of life...
...Concorde costs. Clearly this was a situation the government could not tolerate. Last week executives at Aérospatiale headquarters in Paris were jubilant. "Yes, we think our sales are going to be a lot higher next year." said a company official, adding up Aérospatiale and Dassault-Breguet figures to get a total turnover of around $3 billion...