OTHER NEWS - Feb. 15, 1993

France Wins Big Tank Order: France won an order worth more than $3 billion from the United Arab Emirates for nearly 400 battle tanks against tough competition from its Gulf War allies the United States and Britain. The contract for Leclerc tanks was announced in Abu Dhabi shortly after the opening of the largest defense show in the Gulf, where more than 350 weapons manufacturers from 34 countries displayed their wares in what has become the world’s most important arms market. The Leclerc, made by France’s state-owned GIAT Industries, the U.S. Abrams M1A2 made by General Dynamics Corp. and Vickers Defense System Ltd.’s Challenger 2 were all competing for the deal.