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Military contractors seek peacetime role after defense cuts
California faces steep defense job losses as 1980s cuts bite. Lockheed and rivals shift to civilian work such as refurbishing airliners and building subway cars, while plotting new ventures in space and civil aerospace amid a shrinking defense base.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S
California
Bank of America
Lockheed
Aerospace
Northrop
General Dynamics
Rockwell
McDonnell Douglas
Hughes Aircraft
General Motors
Defense Department
Defense
Georgia
Burbank
Calif
Los Angeles
Space Agency
Marietta, Ga
Navy
Air Force
Alan Chase
Korea
Vietnam
Congress
Chase
Hughes
Kenneth Richardson
Pentagon
Abrahamson
Strategic Defense Initiative
United States
G.D
ATF
NASA
Tucson
Ariz
Boeing