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Like a loving, wealthy mother with a homely daughter, Britain's Labor government for months has hinted at, prompted and hoped for a marriage between the forlorn British Aircraft Corp. and the airframe interests of the handsomely profitable Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. BAC was shyly willing; Hawker Siddeley was reluctant. Whereupon the old lady-Her Majesty's government-stepped in, urged a sort of shotgun merger...
...town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back to the border. Both...
...taken up last week in, of all places, Latin America-where there has been only one major war in the past 50 years. Ironically, it came from Chile's President Eduardo Frei less than two weeks after his government signed a new $20 million deal for 21 British Hawker...
Last year Argentina bought 25 subsonic Douglas A-4B fighters from the U.S. Chile promptly dashed out for more planes and was soon negotiating for the Hawker Hunters. Not to be outdone, Peru last week was discussing purchase of 16 Mach-2.1 English Electric Lightnings and a flock of advanced-model Hawker Hunters. Meantime, Venezuela was suddenly losing its love for its F-86 Sabre jets, which it bought from the U.S. five years ago. So it, too, was dickering-with Sweden for 20 Saab
Minister of Aviation Fred Mulley announced in the House of Commons that instead of its Boeings, BEA must buy made-in-Britain aircraft, with a choice between the Hawker-Siddeley Trident III, the Vickers VC-10 and the BAC-One-Eleven. The equivalent number of British airplanes would cost BEA about $56 million more than the Boeings, but, said Mulley, the government itself would make up the difference. Hearing the news, BEA Chairman Sir Anthony Milward, who holds his job only at the pleasure of the government, bleakly announced that the company's initials should no longer stand...