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...days of deliberations that the hotel and its parent, Hilton Hotel Corp., acted with malice. Deliberations begin Monday on punitive damages. Coughlin sued the Navy and the hotel, but settled with the Navy. So far, the Tailhook scandal has resulted in the resignation of former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III and put on hold some 10,000 Navy and Marine promotions...
...brought tainted water from Asia. And the New England Journal of Medicine has reported two cases of malaria in New Jersey that were transmitted by local mosquitoes. The mosquitoes were probably infected when they bit human malaria victims who had immigrated from Latin America or Asia. Writes author Laurie Garrett in a book to be published next month called The Coming Plague: "aids does not stand alone; it may well be just the first of the modern, large-scale epidemics of infectious disease...
...first order of goods was being shipped, however, the picture changed again. Officials at the Defense Technology Security Administration learned about the deal after they read a wire between the U.S. embassy in Beijing and the State Department. Fearing that China intended to use the Garrett engine to extend the range and payload capacity of its Silkworm missile, the agency raised furious objections...
...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 and its subcontractors. AlliedSignal's lobbyists began pressing the Pentagon to drop its opposition. To dispel fears that the engines might be used for missiles, AlliedSignal's spokesman Arch Niesmith told congressional investigators not to worry. "Our engine has a diameter of nearly three feet," he said, "whereas a cruise...
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 cut off MFN unless China improves its human-rights behavior, the Garrett sale only reinforces Beijing's impression that U.S. demands are a charade...