Britain's Pilkington announced a restructuring that will destroy 6, 000 jobs in its underperforming European operations, 16% of the glass maker's global workforce, and result in the closure of some 60 processing and distribution operations, including a big German plant.

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Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.

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