S. Africa Orders 2 Boeing Jets: South...

S. Africa Orders 2 Boeing Jets: South African Airways has ordered two 747-400 jets worth $256 million and has taken an option to buy two more similar planes, a spokesman for Boeing Co. said. The deal drew severe criticism from Washington state’s congressional delegation and other anti-apartheid activists in Seattle. Barbara Smith, a spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. Brock Adams, said the senator “was violently opposed to the sale.” Boeing’s last sale to South African Airways was concluded in 1983.