Reap what they sow.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)

Thomas Eddlem wrote a fine article, "Phony 'Free Trade' Lobby," in the May 16 issue explaining why the so-called free trade lobby is pushing its destructive agenda. Because I was a Boeing employee until last year, I was particularly interested in what he had to say about that global giant, l would like to add a couple significant points.

First, we should expect all this cloak and dagger work from a former American, now multi-national, company whose senior vice president of international relations is Thomas R. Picketing, CFR member and lifelong foreign service "globocrat," and whose 10-member board of directors last year included no fewer than five CFR members, one of the five being Kenneth M. Duberstein, also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Second, Mr. Eddlem highlights "production sharing" as one method of forcing our economic dependency through outsourcing "'so that no single nation retains the ability to manufacture a complete product on its own." It's worse than that. China drives hard bargains. Boeing and one of its heritage companies, McDonnell Douglas, sowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind when it inked deals with the Red Chinese that required ...