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Liverpool Daily Post newspaper clipping from November 20, 1984 with headline 'Laker probe halted' about antitrust investigation

Liverpool Daily Post newspaper clipping from November 20, 1984 with headline 'Laker probe halted' about antitrust investigation

Press clipping from the Liverpool Daily Post dated November 20, 1984, reporting on President Reagan's order to halt an antitrust investigation into Laker Airways' collapse for 'foreign policy reasons'. The article discusses the £800 million lawsuit investigating whether 12 rival airlines conspired against Sir Freddie Laker's pioneering low-cost transatlantic airline, which collapsed in February 1982.

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