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December 1, 2001

The Air Force is pressing for a lot of extra money to start buying Boeing-767 airliners while demand is soft, saying that they eventually want to replace the many aircraft that use the 707-airframe (tankers, cargo planes, JSTARs, Rivet Joint, AWACS) with 767s and that this is a good time to buy them cheap.--Stephen V Cole