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Timothy Manning, the former manager of human resources at Raytheon Corporation's missile systems division, began work as director of labor relations last week. Manning, 42, is responsible for administering six collective bargaining agreements with Harvard's five unions...
...threaten national security interests. The action was taken on the same day that votes in both the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate expressed disapproval of the sale. Anticipating rejection, Thomson-CSF officials have been scrambling for some time to put together a new offer -- with American partners, including Raytheon, Northrop or Loral. One hitch is that Thomson-CSF placed a $20 million guarantee with LTV for a completed sale by July 31. A new arrangement would depend on the readiness of LTV's creditors to let this deadline slide while a new U.S. review process took place...
...MISSILE MEN AT RAYTHEON COULD HARDLY CHEER ABOUT Pentagon reports that its wonder weapon Patriot was less successful than briefers claimed during the gulf war. Now they have to contend with Almaz, the Russian makers of an antimissile system called the SA10B "Grumble." The boys at Almaz believe their system is faster and better than the Patriot, so they're proposing an international shoot-out between the two systems to prove it. Raytheon, however, refuses to deal in "p.r. gimmickry" and says the Russians are only trying to elbow in on a hot product: complete Patriot systems sell...
Looking back on it though, I remember President Bush's late-February speech to the people at Raytheon who manufacture Patriot missiles (I happened to hear it live one night on Armed Forces radio). The President quoted Woodrow Wilson who said, "It takes 10,000 jobs...
Thinking about this, I realize that war is a tremendously collective effort. Just as the people at Raytheon had their part, I, a guy from Harvard, had my little part, and everyone here at home who supported those of us actually serving in Desert Storm had their part...