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Article: Lawsuit threat prompted settlement of F-16 dispute
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- India Abroad
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- January 8, 1999
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India Abroad
01-08-1999
Lawsuit threat prompted settlement of F-16 dispute
The threat of a lawsuit by Pakistan and the precedent it would have created apparently prompted the United States to expeditiously resolve the dispute over the F-16 fighter aircraft that had remained in limbo for years.
Diplomatic sources here told India Abroad that "the U.S. obviously didn't want to open the floodgates of similar lawsuits from Iran, Libya and others whose money they are sitting on, which runs into billions of dollars."
"This lawsuit would have created a precedent," said the sources. Lanny Davis of the firm of Patton & Boggs, who is Pakistan's lobbyist here, had prepared the suit and was set to ...