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...A380's emergency power unit will be supplied by Hamilton Sundstrand, based in Windsor Locks, Conn. The 44-ft. emergency slides and the 18-ft.-high landing gear will be made by Goodrich, based in Charlotte, N.C. Triumph Group, based in Wayne, Pa., will produce the cargo-door actuation system. A division of Parker Aerospace based in Smithtown, N.Y., is providing fuel measurement and management systems...
...spiraled past 50 percent and the social and economic trauma of living under siege and curfew are taking a heavy toll on increasingly desperate ordinary Palestinians. Hamas wants to avoid anything that would cause the group to be seen as prolonging that agony, or provoke a conflict with the PA...
...Combined pressure from the West and the Arab world has made clear to the Palestinian Authority that the key to its survival now lies in reestablishing its ability to curb terror attacks. That's pushed the PA into new talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad - a conversation in which all sides are aware that the alternative will be a potentially disastrous confrontation between Arafat's Authority and the radical Islamists. The fact that the Saudis have joined in pushing publicly for such a truce increases the political pressure on Hamas, which wants to avoid appearing at odds with the Arab...
...latest attacks, Sharon and his ministers had discussed a scheme under which Israel would ease restrictions on Palestinians living in Gaza and Jericho (the most politically tranquil West Bank city, which has thus far avoided the reoccupation seen in other West Bank population centers), in exchange for the PA - under U.S. coaching - being allowed to resume its security functions and arresting militants...
...Sharon's Labor Party coalition partners would like to take that plan a step further, making Gaza and Jericho a pilot project for Palestinian statehood (in the same way as they served as the test-bed for the establishment of the PA under the Oslo Accords). But that would require the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Gaza, a step Sharon has refused to even consider. The latest attacks, however, appear to have frozen even the most meager version of the Gaza-and-Jericho first formula...