January 1, 1996

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HEADLINE NEWS

CROATS PONDER EARLY PUSH INTO EASTERN SLAVONIA

WASHINGTON Croatian leaders are believed to be weighing their army's chances of recapturing eastern Slavonia—possibly between mid-January and mid-March—instead of waiting for up to two years for a Serb pullout envisioned in the current regional peace plans.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

EUROPEAN AIRFRAMERS MERGE TO BUILD MUSCLE

Aerospatiale, Alenia and British Aerospace forming Aero International Regional to position themselves for the future in an overcrowded regional aircraft market

By PIERRE SPARACO5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

NEW RUSSIAN MiGs SET FOR FLIGHT TEST

MOSCOW PARIS The Russian Mikoyan design bureau, now being merged into the MAPO-MiG industrial group, opens 1996 preparing for the first flights of both its advanced fighter and MiG-AT trainer. The imminent flights will mark the first completely new aircraft to be tested by the famed Mikoyan organization since the MiG-29 first flew 15 years ago.

By NICOLAY NOVICHKOV,CRAIG COVAULT5 min

HEADLINE NEWS

JAPAN BEGINS F-2 PRODUCTION IN $246-BILLION BUDGET PLAN

TOKYO Finance Minister Takemura Masayoshi has succeeded in reducing the Japanese Defense Agency's budget to $246.6 billion, or $6 billion below the JDA's request, but the new five-year plan will still offer 6.6% growth above current spending levels.

By EIICHIRO SEKIGAWA4 min

COVER STORY

GULFSTREAM RAMPS UP G5 TEST PROGRAM

The Gulfstream 5 features new engines and a new wing—the aircraft is 14,400 lb. heavier and flies 6,000 ft. higher than its predecessor, the G4SP

By PAUL PROCTOR4 min

HEADLINE NEWS

ROUGH BALKAN TERRAIN FORCES CHANGE IN JOINT-STARS' TACTICS

WASHINGTON The U.S. E-8 Joint-STARS, NATO's major aerial platform for spying on Bosnian military ground and helicopter traffic, will face much more daunting terrain than it did in its 1991 operational debut in Operation Desert Storm.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

HEADLINE NEWS

ALCATEL PICKS MATRA FOR WORLDSPACE SATELLITE

PARIS Matra Marconi Space will build three new communications satellites for the space segment of the $600-million WorldSpace/Alcatel digital radio broadcast system to serve Africa, South America and Asia. The WorldSpace/ Alcatel system could revolutionize the way radio broadcasting is conducted around the world.

By CRAIG COVAULT4 min

HEADLINE NEWS

NASA COUNTERS RUSSIAN PLAN TO CUT STATION COSTS

WASHINGTON NASA has rejected Russian Space Agency proposals to build the international space station around Russia's orbiting Mir station, but has countered with a proposal it believes would significantly reduce Moscow's up-front commitment.

By JOSEPH C. ANSELMO3 min

HEADLINE NEWS

ELECTRONIC TAGS TO TRACK CARGO BOUND FOR BOSNIA

BOSTON U.S. Transportation Dept. cargo tracking specialists are helping the U.S. Army create a system for tagging nearly all military cargo headed for Bosnia so it can be tracked electronically and monitored via satellite. Commercial electronic tags will be put on nearly all containers headed into Bosnia.

By DAVID HUGHES3 min

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