Word: planes
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...upon row, the vast hangars stand empty at Lockheed's 7.9 million-sq.-ft. aircraft assembly plant in Marietta, Ga. Once bustling with workers building such military aircraft as the giant C-5 transport and the P-3 antisubmarine plane, the facility has increasingly fallen idle as Pentagon spending has ebbed. For thousands of U.S. defense contractors, the unused hangars near Atlanta are a portent of what may lie ahead for them. As the cold war wanes and the Warsaw Pact unravels, Congress and the Bush Administration have begun to plan for the most substantial reductions in military spending since...
...most endangered contractors will be those whose business is almost purely defense work. Northrop, the lead contractor on the B-2 bomber, counted on military sales for 92% of its 1989 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...
...Paul Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That's a good way to start a war," says Roberts...
During the late afternoon of April 3, a small private plane landed at El Paso International Airport and disgorged a garish passenger, accompanied by three grim-faced men. Clad in a sports shirt, country-club-plaid slacks and loafers, the 6-ft. 1-in., 310-lb. Mexican sauntered over to a group of men waiting on the tarmac, smiled as if he were collecting a golf trophy and proffered his hand. "I am Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain," he announced. "I know who you are," snapped special agent Hector Berrellez of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "You have the right...
...three men who stood at Alvarez Machain's elbow had only a few brusque words. "We're police officers," one said to the DEA agents. "Here's your fugitive." Then the three clambered back aboard the plane and took...