Makers of F-15 Pressure Congress
McDonnell Douglas Corp., its subcontractors and unions have joined together to put pressure on the U.S. government to approve the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia.
“Who needs 40,000 highly skilled jobs? We do!” reads an advertisement the group began running Thursday in three Capitol Hill publications.
Without the sale, production of the fighter, which was one of the star performers in the Persian Gulf War last year, will be shut down in June, 1994, when the final jet is delivered to the U.S. Air Force.
“We want people to know that the consequences of not approving this deal are very, very serious,” McDonnell Douglas spokesman Lee Whitney said. The company is worried that a lengthy delay will cause the Saudis to go elsewhere to buy their planes.
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