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...expected visit to China next month. At the same time, the U.S. is forging much closer military ties to India. Thanks to a monitoring agreement reached this year, U.S. defense contractors can sell technology freely to India. "India is probably the most important country internationally for us," says Garrett Mikita, president of defense and space at Honeywell Aerospace, who went to New Delhi recently to court Indian officials. The company is one of two firms bidding to replace the engines in India's 300 Jaguar fighter jets, a contract worth as much as $5 billion. The engines are aging...
...movie has prompted calls to the Aurora Chamber of Commerce from people about some of the film's fictitious landmarks, including a doughnut shop owned by hockey great Stan Mikita and a sculpture of wrecked cars, according to Chamber of Commerce President Steve Hatcher...
...Most of them want to know if there's a Stan Mikita Doughnut Shop," Hatcher says. There isn't, although Wayne and Garth hang out there in the movie. Mikita is a former Chicago Blackhawk...
...seasons as the Canadiens coach, he won eight Stanley Cup titles and shepherded the careers of Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion. From behind the bench, Blake schemed to stop such high-scoring opponents as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. So when it comes to evaluating hockey's newest natural wonder, the New York Islanders' Right Wing Mike Bossy, Blake is succinct: "Why is Mike Bossy great? That's easy. He scores goals...
More recent victims of back trouble have included Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Sutherland and Barbra Streisand. Sports figures suffer from back pain too. Golfer Lee Trevino and former New York Yankee Infielder Tony Kubek have been strick en. Earlier this year Hockey Center Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks was permanently sidelined by his aching back...