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...Despite a recent infusion of federal funds to Boeing, the FIA situation has become so worrisome that Representatives Porter Goss of Florida and Jane Harman of California, respectively the top chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, last week visited Boeing's Los Angeles-area complex to investigate. They also held a closed-door hearing on the subject last week, with more planned. In part to cut wear-and-tear on existing satellites - which one source said are already operating as much as 20% below their original image-gathering capacity - and reserve time for intelligence needs, CIA Director...
...Boeing is struggling to get FIA back on track, but officials are still worried. As one U.S. official put it: "We're not quite sure how long our existing satellites are going to last. Some of them are beyond their expected life, so it's kind of like you just sit there and you're thankful every day that they work...
...player wants to win - because being Wimbledon champion means becoming part of history MOTOR RACING A Fine for the Ferrari Shuffle It comes to something when the excitement in Formula One happens in an office in Paris rather than on the track. A meeting of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) fined the Ferrari team and drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello $500,000 for causing the biggest rumpus in the sport's recent history. At the Austrian Grand Prix on May 12, racing fans jeered and booed their disapproval when Ferrari team bosses ordered Barrichello, who had led the race...
...SPORTS AUTHORITIES Can We Play Too? Who was conspicuously absent at preparations for last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix? The fledgling Phoenix racing team, which was barred from participating by FIA, Formula One's ruling body. FIA told Phoenix, which came into being after purchasing certain assets from the now-defunct Prost team for a reported $3.5 million, that its entry was invalid because the group had not bought the "right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite...
Lauda gives the FIA the benefit of the doubt. Drivers, he explains, "see accidents happen but nobody getting hurt, and they stop thinking about what is really at risk. If we start believing that motor racing is not dangerous, then we are all stupid. It's almost as though God has held his hand over Formula One. At Imola, he took it away. And we saw again the brutal reality of what Formula One racing is all about...