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Responding to a Freedom of Information request filed by the Morning News Tribune of Tacoma, the FAA released a list of civil penalties paid by Boeing and one paid by McDonnell Douglas from 1985 through 1988.
Reports on the list were published Tuesday by The Seattle Times and Wednesday by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The sole penalty McDonnell Douglas paid in that period was $1,700 for leaving a pin off an aircraft tail assembly.
In addition, the FAA is pursuing a $200,000 fine against McDonnell Douglas for failure to reinforce an area on the top side of the fuselage of 174 aircraft where a blinking light is installed, FAA attorney Douglas Anderson said.
Fines paid by Boeing ranged from $1,000 for piercing wire insulation with a marker, which caused an in-flight fire in a lavatory on a Monarch Airlines 757, to a company-record 125,000 dollars early last year for installing thousands of defective self-locking nuts on flight-control systems of 22 767s.
The list showed Boeing's second-largest fine was $30,000 last October for installing faulty parts that help open the exit doors of 747 and 757 jetliners.
Boeing discovered problems with "emergency pressure reservoirs" supplied by Textron Inc. but, "in going through the process to figure out what happened, they (Boeing) dropped the ball" and the parts were installed in 44 planes, Anderson said. DALLAS, Texas (AP) - Smith and Wesson is trying to sell a new line of handguns to women, but several leading women's magazines are refusing to carry the gunmaker's advertisements for the petite "LadySmith" .38-caliber revolvers.
"We would not accept that category of advertising," said John de Holl, director of advertising services for Woman's Day magazine in New York. "It would be against the policy of the magazine to run any advertisements for firearms."
Woman's Day is not alone. Smith and Wesson officials say New York-based Conde Nast Publications, including Mademoiselle, Glamour and Self, and Des Moines-based Meredith Group's Better Homes and Gardens all have rejected ads for the LadySmiths.
"We do not accept handgun ads for any of our magazines," said a representative of Conde Nast's West Coast advertising firm, who asked not to be identified.
"Some publications I have approached have turned down the ads," said Michael Shypula, director of advertising and promotions for the Springfield, Massachusetts-based gunmaker. "I think the bias is against the Smith and Wesson name...since there are no guns in our ads."
Smith and Wesson last month unveiled the new line of four handguns, the LadySmiths, at a trade show in Dallas. The guns -- all .38-caliber revolvers -- have been scaled down for a woman's hand.
Shypula said advertisements for the guns will focus on public safety. The ads will not feature pictures of the guns, but rather illustrations of women in typical precrime situations -- stuck on the side of the road with car trouble or hearing a noise in the middle of the night.
Rather than carrying the name of the guns, the ad will have a toll-free telephone number Smith And Wesson is setting up for women to talk to a female gun specialist about purchasing a handgun.
Shypula said the ads will run for about four months, beginning in April issues of these magazines: Country Home, Executive Female, First, Harpers Bazaar, Lady's Home Journal, McCalls, Metropolitan Home, Redbook, Shape, Town and Country, Vanity Fair, Women's Sports and Fitness, Working Mother, Working Woman.
But Andrea Kaplan, spokeswoman for the Working Woman-McCall's Group magazines, said none of the company's three publications, including Working Mother, will be running the ads. NEW YORK (AP) - Death threats against the author of "Satanic Verses" and bomb threats against its publisher haven't deterred bookstores from displaying the controversial book -- if they're lucky enough to have copies.
"Sales are incredible," said Brian Weese, general manager of Encore Books, a Pennsylvania-based chain of 47 stores, several of which have sold out their allotment.
The novel has enraged Islamic leaders and prompted the Ayatollah Khomeini to call for the death of its author, Salman Rushdie, who was born a Moslem.
Viking Penguin Inc. began a second printing of the book last week, according to a spokesman who asked that his name not be used.
