The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

p> PLANE SPEAKING br> Secretary of State Colin Powell peacemaking will bring him to Israel later this week, and he'll be carrying at least one big carrot: F-16s. According to a Washington-based defense lobbyist, Lockheed Martin last week reached a tentative deal to build and sell more than forty F-16s to the Israeli military. The deal for Lockheed's Fort Worth plant could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars for the company and its subcontractors. /p>

"The Israelis want these jets badly," says the lobbyist. "If they want them, they'll have to at least sit down and make an effort at the negotiating table. Otherwise, those fighter jets never get built."

p> CORNED IN br> On March 20 The Prowler reported on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. John Kerry

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