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- <text id=93TT2410>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: A Little Too Up-Front
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- A Little Too Up-Front
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A Pentagon report nails those who prepaid McDonnell Douglas
- Corp.
- </p>
- <p> A night in a cheap hotel usually requires payment in advance.
- But relations between major defense contractors and the Air
- Force are thought to be a cut above that. Not always, according
- to a report from the acting Pentagon inspector general, which
- recommends disciplinary measures against a cluster of Air Force
- generals and civilian procurement specialists. The report
- accuses several Pentagon officials of advancing McDonnell
- Douglas Corp. $500 million in 1990 to see the aerospace giant
- through troubles associated with the C-17 military transport
- plane. The report urges disciplinary action for three generals
- and two civilians alleged to be involved in the scandal.
- McDonnell Douglas and the Air Force dismissed the more than
- 100-page report as old news, but the inspector general's
- recommendation for disciplinary and possibly criminal sanctions
- was a startling departure from past traditions of mutual back
- scratching.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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