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Powell’s 40-Carrot Mission
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PLANE SPEAKING
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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.
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“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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