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From AVIONEWS correspondent at Le Bourget: US half their participation, other countries double spaces

Paris, France - There are only 183 US exhibitors against more than 350 of previous issue

Commissioner-General Yves Bonnet, in a conference said he believed that the lack of US exhibitors, 183 compared with more than 350 two years ago was due "purely to economic reasons and not political". The US Department of Defense has settled that all military personnel above the rank of colonel could be not attending the show, and this move has been evaluated from some US aerospace industry representatives...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 46794
Rome, Italy, 06/16/2003 15:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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