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Evers
Everhart Van Houten smiled at the round of applause as he stepped up to the podium and surveyed the earnest looks of the hundreds of conferees who had gathered in the hotel ballroom. Evers knew that as chairman of the Export Policy committee of DPACT, Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade, his words would be carefully scrutinized by executives of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, United Technologies, L-3 Communications, BAE Systems, and Skylar of course. The committee advised the Defense Secretary and U. S. trade representatives on pertinent trade issues.
Beaming with confidence, he began, “Gentlemen and ladies, it has been one hell of a ride! U. S. weapon exports have exponentially multiplied. Skyrocketed. The Pentagon estimates that t
