May 27, 2004

Toray Industries receives order from Boeing Co worth 330 billion yen ($2.95 billion) over 18 years for carbon-filter-reinforced plastics to make wings, tails and floors of 7E7 Dreamliner jets; graph (S)

Architect Jim Olson has been tinkering with his summer home on Puget Sound, located within sight of his first professional commission; home is on land where his grandparents built in 1912, and Olson, who recalls going there as young man, now brings his grandchildren there; career highlights; expansion of current house on property, which began as small guest house, described; photos; floor plan (M)

Finmeccanica will buy out its partner's half in joint venture, helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland, for $1.9 billion; will pay for deal by selling 50 million to 55 million shares in another joint venture, STMicroelectronics; partner in AgustaWestland is Britain's GKN (S)

Transcript of 1969 telephone conversation then-national security adviser Henry A Kissinger had with Defense Sec Melvin R Laird about My Lai massacre in South Vietnam has uncanny echoes of current war in Iraq and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, in impact of photographs if not in severity of wrongdoing; in conversation, two debated whether there was any way to stop newspapers and television news programs from showing graphic photographs of victims; Laird describes photographs as 'pretty terrible,' and Kissinger replies that Army's reported effort to impound pictures 'can't be done'; Laird tells Kissinger that he wants to 'sweep it under the rug,' but that photographs prevented it; telephone transcripts also show how frustrated Pres Nixon was becoming with Vietnam War; in Dec 1970, after talking with Nixon, Kissinger relays order for 'massive bombing campaign in Cambodia'; later, as peace negotiations progressed with Hanoi, it was Soviet Amb Anatoly Dobrynin who brought proposals from Vietnamese Communists to Kissinger; telephone tapes are released by National Security Archive over Kissinger's objections; photos (M)

Once predominantly gay neighborhood of Chelsea is changing as families move in and many gay residents head for Hell's Kitchen and beyond; classic pattern of gentrification includes development and increasing home prices; photos (M)