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...Soviet Union can acquire such items of American high technology through industrial espionage, outright theft, or by purchasing them secondhand from companies in nations that are either allied with the U.S. or neutral and that got them from U.S. firms. The problem for the U.S., says Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, is "finding a way of assuring our national security with minimal damage to the American business community...
...Bisharat also seems confused over interpretations of international law. If he is concerned about "the admissibility of intervention in another state," why not discuss the rape, torture, intimidation, theft, vigilante justice, and enforced conscription of children which the PLO had practiced during its seven year occupation of Lebanon, all of which rendered the Lebanese government impotent? Is that not a most blatant violation of sovereignty? He cannot bring himself to mention it, but this sordid history has been documented through interviews by David Shipler of the Times, among many others...
...personnel cluster bombs in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas of Beirut and other Lebanese cities violated numerous provisions of international conventions relative to the protection of civilians in times of war. Extensive looting and vandalism of residences and public institutions by Israeli troops also violated these general conventions. The theft of the 25,000 volume library of the Palestine Research Center violated a specific convention relative to the protection of cultural property in times of war of which both Israel and Lebanon are signatories. The destruction of Palestinian camps and other property in the aftermath of active hostilities to "relocate...
...major development in KGB activity today is a growing interest in so-called LineX espionage, the theft of high-level technology (see box). Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Under Andropov, the Soviet Union has refined and expanded its intelligence targets. The new focus is on technology." Last October, officials of COCOM, the NATO committee overseeing East-West technology transfers, estimated that more than 20,000 Soviet and East bloc agents are now at work pilfering the latest Western gadgetry, and have whittled down the West's overall technological lead from ten years to about two. Prime American targets...
...Switzerland, customs officials called the matter "embarrassing." In Washington, the Commerce Department would not confirm that the case was under investigation, but expressed grave concern. In Moscow, KGB officials were believed to be jubilant over a victory on one of the newest frontiers of espionage: the theft of Western industrial technology...