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The Brazilian government postpones the purchase of fighter aircraft

Sao Paulo, Brasil - The money will invest in the fight the poverty

The Brazilian government of the Lula president has decided to postpone of a year the purchase of supersonic airplanes and to assign the sum, destined to the purchase, approximately a USD 1bn, to the program for the fight to the hunger. "The president Inacio Lula da Silva has specified that not draft of the abandonment of the FX plan, but he thinks that one spold isn't adapted to the moment that the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 38117
Rome, Italy, 01/03/2003 19:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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