He also launched negotiations with Aeroflot about possible joint ventures.

The trip has led to talks over possible joint ventures.

Ahousaht is always in talks with Business groups, government, and other individuals to seek out every possible economic venture that they can.

"We may look at 20 possible ventures before we find one that suits our thinking," he once told an interviewer.

"We're not looking at mergers, but possible joint ventures or technological cooperation agreements," he said.

He could not say which of the possible ventures might come to fruition.

He said Ford was also negotiating a possible joint venture for building commercial vehicles in China.

Terom has been looking for outside investors, but one possible joint venture with an Italian company recently fell through.

The move came after talks with Prudential about a possible joint venture ended without an agreement.

In the year before graduation, they talked among friends at Morehouse about possible ventures.