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Unlike its female counterparts, the men's fencing team ran like a used car with a broken gas pedal this year, crawling along for most of the season before its engine finally kicked in.
Garrett's parent company, AlliedSignal, had no intention of abandoning the sale -- especially since the Chinese by then had expressed interest in purchasing as many as 500 engines over 20 years. Including service and peripherals, the company estimated the deal could gross $500 million and support 440 jobs at Garrett...
Some nonproliferation experts take issue with AlliedSignal's claim that the engines cannot be adapted to an improved Chinese cruise missile. Within the Defense Technology Security Administration, specialists are worried that the engine is perfectly suited to powering a long-range cruise missile. CIA studies have warned that if AlliedSignal...
But other experts say such analysis is unnecessarily alarmist and damaging to American business. "I think those engines don't mean squat," says Charles Bernard, a former Pentagon official. "The French make an engine that size, as well as the Brits and the Germans. A lot of people would sell...
Regardless of whether the engine eventually becomes the centerpiece of a Chinese cruise missile, the Garrett deal undermines the noisy debate over whether the U.S. should extend China's most-favored-nation status. Viewed against the backdrop of assurances by Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the Clinton Administration will...