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| U.S. Top Military Officials to Skip Paris Show, Business Says |
| 2003-04-30 |
| The U.S. military's top officials will boycott the Paris airshow in June in protest over France's anti-war stance over Iraq, the Business reported, without saying where it got the information from. The U.S. Defense Department has banned generals and other officials from the air force, army and navy from attending this year's biggest European airshow. The highest-ranking officials from the air force to attend will be colonels and the navy will send captains, the paper reported. France, which has a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, threatened to veto a resolution giving explicit approval for the use of force against Iraq. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that the country faces unspecified consequences for its opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. |
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