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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15Look for the Union Label
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Washington warmly welcomed new Israeli Prime Minister
- YITZHAK RABIN's decision last week to call a temporary halt to
- new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But a major
- sticking point in U.S.-Israeli relations remains. The White
- House wants to sell 72 F-15 Eagle bombers to Saudi Arabia.
- Israel strongly opposes the sale, but McDonnell Douglas and its
- suppliers have been pressing Bush to let the sale go through.
- Last week the powerful 800,000-member International Association
- of Machinists and Aerospace Workers added to the election-year
- pressure on Bush, insisting that if the $5 billion sale is
- killed, nearly 40,000 aerospace jobs will be lost. Already
- facing major losses as defense spending is reduced, the
- aerospace workers are pressing Bush to save them "from the human
- scrap heap."
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