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- <text id=93TT1029>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Fully Loaded
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 14
- BUSINESS
- Fully Loaded
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A French company wins a major Middle East contract for battle tanks
- </p>
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- <p> It has room for three; air conditioning; goes from zero to 30
- km/h in five seconds; has a maximum road speed of 75 km/h and
- an off-road limit of 50 km/h. And it's yours for only $5.4 million.
- </p>
- <p> A sales pitch something like that persuaded the United Arab
- Emirates to order 390 of France's state-of-the-art AMX Leclerc
- battle tanks for an estimated $3.5 billion, beating out the
- American Abrams M1A2 and British Challenger 2. The deal, which
- also buys the U.A.E. 46 noncombat tanks and armored escort vehicles,
- represents a major victory for financially beset, state-owned
- Giat Industries and gives France a greater foothold in the lucrative
- Middle Eastern armaments market. Since the Gulf War, the Gulf
- Cooperation Council alone has placed $40 billion in military-hardware
- orders.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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