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GRAPEVINE, Page 15Look for the Union Label
By JANICE CASTRO
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."