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...feds are trying to crack down, however. A bureaucratic struggle between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined...
...divestment movement this spring has succeeded in raising activities and the general awareness about political issues to a level that hasn't been seen in several years. The general excitement across campus about the divestment movement, we hope, will change people's attitudes about political activism. Hopefully people will transfer some energy to other issues like Reagan's Central American policies, Harvard's atrocious labor relations, and sexist attitude toward hiring and treatment of female faculty," says Evan O. Grossman...
...computer journal poured a hot-fudge sundae on theirs. Another publication sent Polaroid a floppy covered with mustard, catsup and relish. One disk had been used as a chew toy by a golden retriever. In all those cases, Polaroid was able to clean the disk or electronically transfer the user's work to fresh floppies. The only disk that was less than 100% salvageable was one that a user had sabotaged by riddling it with staples...
...centrifuge process and sent them back to Pakistan. He had revealed to his countrymen the names of more than 100 European, Canadian and U.S. firms that could provide the necessary equipment for a plant. Using a network of phony businesses as cover, Pakistan began to acquire and transfer to Islamabad technology from Western Europe and North America. Items in the covert pipeline ranged from special steel tubing to precision measuring equipment to specialized electronics. In 1978, some 400 tons of uranium oxide, the basic feedstock in producing enriched uranium, was secretly obtained from Niger, with the connivance of Libya...
President Reagan is quite right. Everything you give the Soviet Union, they use for military purposes. The West should cease all forms of technology transfer to the Soviets, not just high tech. Comrade Gorbachev is a realistic man. I am sure that putting himself into Reagan's shoes, he's saying to himself, "What bloody fools these Americans have been in taking so long to plug this hole...