Word: export
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trade policy. The international group concerned with such matters calls the U.S. sugar scheme an unfair trade practice, an ironic finding given Washington's pique at other nations. As foreign policy, the sugar program is an unmitigated disaster. In the CBI nations, where sugar is the most important export commodity after coffee, more than 400,000 jobs have been lost since 1982 because of sugar protectionism, and the CBI's few positive effects have been wiped...
...face meeting with Iraqi government officials in the cafe of the Cavendish hotel on London's Jermyn Street. On one side of the table sat Daghir, Jeanine Speckman and two men introduced as Iraqi government engineers. On the other side sat Kowalsky and his manager for finance and export, "Daniel Saunders." But Saunders was actually Daniel Supnick, 38, a U.S. Customs agent...
Pause. More conferring in Arabic, and as the meeting wore on, the Iraqis kept changing the specs until they fitted those of a nuclear warhead detonation capacitor. But Supnick informed them that the U.S. Government would not license the capacitors for export if the true destination, Baghdad, were revealed. The Iraqis' solution: the shipment would be described as parts for "computer-room air conditioners...
...same time, the suspects were arrested at Heathrow. Those charged with trying to smuggle the capacitors were Daghir; Toufic Fouad Amyuni, 37, a Lebanese engineer; and Speckman, 41, a French export executive with EUROMAC. In addition, Iraqi citizen Omar Latif was arrested and deported to Baghdad. Latif, ostensibly an official with the state-owned Iraqi Airways, was believed to be the head of Iraq's intelligence network in Britain. The next day, the U.S. district court in San Diego unsealed an indictment that charged two British-based companies and five people, among them Daghir and Speckman, with conspiracy to export...
...international response was largely muted. After the sting, British authorities considered breaking off diplomatic relations with Iraq, then chose not to, concerned that such a move might harm two British prisoners being held in Iraq. In Washington President George Bush called upon suppliers "to exercise special restraint" in the export of nuclear, chemical, biological and ballistic weapons. Iraq has had little trouble acquiring arms and component parts from countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia...