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Paris Airshow Opens; US Execs Stay Home
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 06:31:25 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" <ole () cisco com> Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:25:44 -0700 (PDT) To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Paris Airshow Opens; US Execs Stay Home LE BOURGET (Reuters) - The 45th Paris Air Show kicked off on Saturday without the presence of a single top executive from a leading U.S. defense contractor. Lockheed Martin, the world's top arms maker, confirmed last week that its Chairman and Chief Executive Vance Coffman had pulled out of the show, citing scheduling conflicts. Coffman had been the only CEO of a top U.S. aerospace or defense firm planning to attend the show, the world's leading gathering for aerospace executives, military brass and flying fans. Lingering U.S. resentment over France's staunch opposition to the war in Iraq (news - web sites) has led the Defense Department to scale back sharply on its participation and, according to Washington insiders, put pressure on U.S. companies not to attend. <snip> Rest of story at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=7&u=/nm/20030 615/wl_nm/airshow_dc Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole () cisco com URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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