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...Tour de France alpine climb or a suburban parent with a child in tow, bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded carbon fiber. One-piece and aerodynamically designed...
...they will fall. A lobbying war has broken out in Washington as companies, cities and states battle to preserve their defense contracts. New York's Grumman and its supporters carried out a lobbying campaign -- described by one opposing Senator as "ruthless" -- to keep alive its F-14D carrier-based jet, and won a contract for 18 new planes at $75 million each...
...revenues of $5.2 billion. Besides the Stealth bomber (price for each plane: $540 million), the company builds so- called smart weapons systems, guidance modules for MX missiles and other military hardware. After losing $80.5 million last year, the company cut costs by selling its Gulfstream IV corporate jet in January and its glass-and-steel headquarters tower in Century City, Calif., for $218 million in March. If congressional proposals to kill the $70 billion B-2 program prevail, some industry experts think Northrop's long-term survival will be in doubt...
DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD. Incoming Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is vowing to hand suspected terrorist Mohammed Rashid over to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1982 midflight bombing of a Pan Am jet near Hawaii. The U.S. has been trying to get hold of Rashid ever since he was arrested in Greece, but the unfriendly government of Andreas Papandreou always said no. However, Mitsotakis' gift may come with a condition attached: the return to Greece of accused embezzler George Koskotas, now in a Massachusetts prison. Koskotas would then be available to testify if Papandreou is brought...
...Midwest's best political reporter, David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register, is poised and waiting for the first 1992 Democratic presidential prospector to jet across the Mississippi into Keokuk or come stealthily by Hertz into Council Bluffs. His early-warning network, tuned to the Iowa caucuses that will kick off the next presidential season two years from now, is unerring...