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But the 1iaisset Oto Omer Obleins i Issula under Siudy if Ludig an Jamal yrs of whether the Arrats Murwill Wear out prematurely weren t seeing enough activity in i aet to areas and we didst want them to be is mute Edises a tool Charles Siefert the manager said in Anin Riero Tew. Mme have had our fill of those a the fort said Ruthc letter reflects air i Force concern that Douglas was putting its full Energy into achieving the first of fight of the "c-17 a which the company has scheduled Tor june a but was less Ai Tensive to other aspects that would be Mure important in the Longrun. �?o1thete were Many other items that needed to be addressed. We put ii All together and dropped it on them Quot he said. The list mis accompanied by a cover letter that demanded a corrective action plan in 45 Days a period that expires in mid june. The air Force which plans to buy 120 of the four engine Carco jets told Douglas a this letter is issued with the understanding that it will not result in an increase in funding allotted to the contractor a change to Price schedule or any other contractually specified . The program is already significantly behind schedule and an estimated $500, million Over its contract ceiling Douglas spokesman James Ramsey downplayed lne letter saying that the defects arc All minor and that Many have already been corrected. But Ramsey Dev dined to discuss the specific defects or identify which had been fixed. Ramsey said the company has responded to the demand for a corrective action plan but he declined to describe the response. A none of the items mentioned affect the Cost safety or performance or would Impact our ability to safely achieve first flight Quot Ramsey said. / / the list of problems includes the notation that the c-17s cockpit a does not present an acceptable habitable Compart men for crash conditions. All risks with this hazardous condition have not Heel reduced to an acceptable level Quot separately it was Learned to riday that Douglas agreed to provide a $14 million rebate to the air Force on the first six c-17s because the aircraft will fail to meet its required ranges the cargo Jet Lor instance cannot Fly 2,4 h nautical Miles with 107,027 pounds of payload. A that deficiency along with Lour others will be resolved in the next c-17 production contract Siefert said. The nine Page list of deficiencies touches on almost every aspect of the g-17. A the c-17�?Ts main Landing gear Quot does not meet requirements Quot the list said. A the Airframe of the first aircraft designated t-1 a does not meet the two lifetime design life requirement Quot Siefert said the air Force is still studying whether subsequent planes will also fail to a a meet this requirement under which the airframes must withstand double the specified 30,000 hours of flying time. Such Quot double life Quot requirements Are typical in the aircraft Industry. A air Force officials expressed concern about the c 7�?Ts ability to land in winds that blow perpendicular to the Landing path of the aircraft a russians paying lobbyist in . 50,000 a month in push for Aid mash1ngton apr the soviet Union s biggest Republic is paying a bashing on lobbyist $50,000 a month to i sip Jana the Western Aid it wants to re Shie its co Many. sati Orney o. Roy Chalk is getting Thevee a a High standards a in ii two year contract with the Russitti be Public. His associates ate filing Jim additional total of 5200,000 per Fri unto. According to documents filed with Lej austice department. To have been steeping u Low key front -but1 behind the scenes pm Busy Quot Chalk r3. Jsau3 Friday. He declined to elaborate on the Onang Emlott. All delicate subject matter Quot said Chalk site son Tif a russian immigrant mho made millions in new York real estate Jand Caribbean airlines. A Fin dealing Mizii 3? important people and Don t Mem to step on their toes Quot Dae Tif those people is Ivan s. Slaey the russian Republic s Premier who in a december signed the contract with Chalk my Moscow. Another is Gregory a. Zavlinsky an Jad Visier to russian Republic president Doris Yeltsin and an architect of the Quot Sofi Dav Rian Quot fur rapidly converting file soviet Union to a Market system. Yevim ski has been in the United slates 0< Roy Chalk recently working on a new soviet in sue plan with a group of Harvard University economists Wilh the encouragement of soviet president Mikhail s. Gotha Titiev. The group will visit Washington this week to present president Irish s administration with its Quot grand bargain Quot a plan to finance soviet economic Reform with a heavy influx of Western Aid Zavlinsky 3 a is a co chairman of tie intr National privatization fund Ltd., Chalk s brainchild. Chalk is the other to chairman. Quot it s a Beautiful plan Quot said Alexander Tarasov a Secretary at the soviet embassy. Quot we have to promote it with All the resources we plan Calls for setting up two huge joint ventures Between the russian Republic and the soviet Union. A a $2 billion food processing corporation and a $3 Lillyon Industrial corporation according to document obtained by the associated $5 billion would come from the intr National privatization fund which to u i d. B e f i n a n be d by a id fro in o 111 e r governments. A i am confident that the intr National privatization fund will receive full coup Era lion and consideration irom the . Government. Quot chalks id. Nations to write off half of Egypt s debt i parts apr a a group of creditor nations is agree in to cancel half of Egypt s 152022 billion Tibet to Western a in appreciation for the tale in the coalition against Iraq officials have of Dpi a Feich lbs a leading Arab Mem Isery the multinational Force in the persian to Juii War owes from $34 billion to and. \. The pact m As signed Over the weekend by the egyptian Central Bank a governor Salah Hamed and representatives of the Paris club of creditor nations following three Days of talks egyptian ambassador Ahmed Sidky said. The Paris club is an informal group of Western creditor nations that includes the United states and other members of the so called group of seven Industrial the debt will be written off in two stages in coming months. The remainder of Egypt a $10.1 billion debt to foreign governments will be rescheduled Sidky said before the War Egypt owed about $49 billion in foreign debt which includes Loans by governments and Banks. Last year the United states forgave about $6.7 billion of Egypt s military debts in gratitude for its role in the War. Wealthy Arab states in the coalition also wrote off $7 billion owed by Egypt. X
