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That was wishful thinking. The next skirmish in the contest of wills was already set to take place in Scotland, where a Soviet vessel was expected to pick up the first six U.S.-designed turbines ordered from Britain's John Brown Engineering Ltd. The British, like the French, are taking a hard line, demanding that their pipeline suppliers ignore the U.S. ban. Said a senior British official: "We are not going to be bullied by Washington...
...attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
...thanks to an important new drug called cyclosporine, the heart transplant may become the more nearly routine operation doctors once envisioned. Developed by the Swiss firm Sandoz Ltd., cyclosporine is a natural fungal compound that somehow blocks the production of those white cells that cause rejection but not those that fight infection. Says Dr. Barry Kahan, head of the organ-transplant division of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a colleague of Cooley's: "This is the secret ingredient, the thing that unlocks the door to transplants...
Trade frictions between the U.S. and Japan worsened last week when still another Japanese company became ensnared in an American criminal prosecution. In San Francisco the U.S. subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (1981 sales: an estimated $45 billion), one of Japan's largest trading companies, pleaded guilty to a 21-count customs fraud indictment in connection with steel exports to the U.S., and agreed to pay $11.2 million in civil and criminal fines. The penalties against the company, which handles about 40% of Japanese steel sales in America, were the heaviest in the 193-year history...
...Mitsui action was the third one filed against Japanese firms in the past month. On June 30 the FBI charged Hitachi Ltd., Japan's fourth largest computer maker, and 14 of its employees with conspiring to steal IBM secrets. Last week a federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down similar indictments stemming from the case against Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and four of its employees...