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France to Appeal EC’s De Havilland Decision: France will use all its powers to appeal against the European Commission’s veto of a planned purchase by Aerospatiale and Alenia of Boeing Co.’s De Havilland subsidiary, Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said. The Commission, the EC’s executive body, said earlier this week that it had vetoed the purchase of De Havilland, a Canadian commuter aircraft maker, by Aerospatiale, a state-owned French company, and Alenia, which is owned by the Italian government. In another development, De Havilland said it would cut 1,100 jobs next year because of poor sales of its Dash 8 commuter airplanes.