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...years, savvy smugglers, complicit businessmen and well-heeled Soviet officials managed to stay out of sight as they ferried America's technological secrets from West to East. No longer. A string of scandals, beginning with last spring's Toshiba affair, has pushed the issue of high-tech banditry squarely into the spotlight. The stories, many of which lack the happy ending supplied by Corporal Fudge, have strengthened the resolve of U.S. officials to track down and punish those who traffic in the nation's secrets. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity announced that officials from the NATO allies...
...Businessmen are frustrated by the complex regulations that seem to do nothing except complicate their sales. A study by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that U.S. restrictions on high-tech exports cost American firms more than $11 billion annually in lost business. As the U.S. works to reduce its trade deficit and recapture overseas markets, those restrictions amount to a self-imposed trade barrier the U.S. can scarcely afford. Furthermore, maintains Harvard's Lewis Branscomb, former chief scientist at IBM, the scope of restricted items, from straitjackets to wind tunnels, is unnecessarily broad. "It would be nice to ensure...
Other alarming cases have since surfaced. Earlier this month two Japanese businessmen and two Hungarian diplomats were indicted in Asheville, N.C., and charged with diverting to Hungary an advanced U.S. laser trimming system used to manufacture semiconductors. The product had been shipped from Charlotte, N.C., to Tokyo as an ordinary "carpet trimmer." From there it was smuggled to Budapest as part of a diplomat's "household goods." The Hungarians, according to the indictment, paid the Japanese $380,000 for their trouble...
...much, is letting too many important products slip through. By limiting the number of restricted items, the U.S. could insist on tighter enforcement and higher penalties for violators than under the present system of comprehensive controls. "Higher walls around fewer items" has become a rallying cry for businessmen and Government officials searching for ways to protect truly vital technology without relying on blanket controls...
Perhaps Ginsburg was only imitating his sponsor, a Reagan Administration whose members have brazenly disregarded a Constitution they are supposed to uphold. But the Reagan Administration, and most politicians, professionals and businessmen agree that drugs are hurting the country. They have watched as an increasing drug abuse has forced students out of school, hurt their parents' job productivity, and driven addicts to crime. Drugs have destroyed thousands of lives and engendered a culture of lawlessness--especially among the poor trapped in the cities...