mcdonnell douglas. integrated business which doesn't only command american industrial assets but also collaborates closely with me japanese industries the. production one to that end and that's exactly what we did six years ago. described you as a state run company but who is your primary source of finance the government private investors. who. are present stage we need a lot of investment and considering our initial liabilities which originate from the large debts the cumulated companies the corporations with wouldn't have been able to settle its accounts without some serious support from the government. financing framework is based on a combination of substantial government funding. reinvested profits and money from our corporate partners we finance our military aircraft projects with earnings from our military sales which we don't earn enough to sustain both civil and military production so that's where the government comes in. finally we actively encourage our partners to invest in our civil aircraf

louis to announce a very lucrative contract for mcdonnell douglas to build f-15s for saudi arabia. in today's post- dispatch, a retired saleswoman, a 75-year-old woman named marjorie roberts, asked if she could ask a question of the candidates. she said she wanted to register her concern about the lack of a plan to convert our defense-oriented industries into other purposes. how would you answer her? >> i assume she was supportive of the decision on mcdonnell douglas, i assume she was supporting me on the decision to sell those airplanes. i think it's a good decision--took a little heat for it, but i think it was the correct decision to do. and we worked it out, and indeed we're moving forward all around the world in a much more peaceful way. so that one we came away with in creating jobs for the american people. i would simply say to her, look, take a look at what the president has proposed on job retraining. when you cut back on defense spending, some people are going to be thrown out of work. if you throw another 50,000 kids on the street because of cutting recklessly in troop l