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It will become the world's third-largest aerospace firm, behind Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, and will own an 80 percent stake in Airbus Industrie, Boeing's main competitor in the commercial passenger-jet market.
A Mr. Donald N. S. Unger, in criticizing a recent William Safire pitch for anti-missile missiles, refers to how the Aegis missile system shot down an Iranian Airbus during the Gulf war, mistaking it for a Mig fighter plane.
Both Airbus and Boeing have bombarded their planes with cell waves and failed to record any interference; Boeing still recommends that phones not be used in the air--but to prevent electronic interference similar to (though slightly stronger than) that of a laptop or CD player.
USA Today also has Mir on the front below the fold, but leads with the looming trouble between President Clinton and the European Economic Union over the proposed Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger, which he supports and the EU is likely to reject as being a threat to the European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus.
In a countermove, Airbus today announced plans to build the A318, a 107-seat passenger jet that will pose a challenge to Boeing's 737, a still-popular commuter plane derived from 1960's technology.