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...Reagan Administration has tried to limit the sale of high-tech equipment that can be put to military use and to crack down on the international "techno-bandits" who purchase or steal for the Soviets what they cannot directly buy. But in an open society that must trade freely with the world, the Reaganauts have about as much chance of preventing high-tech secrets from flowing out of the U.S. as they do of stopping cocaine and marijuana from flooding...
...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...
...made a rush for the nearest exit, beyond a low wall at the bottom of the sloping spectator terrace. Some managed to clamber over the wall, dropping to the ground on the other side. Hundreds more were trapped, crushed by the weight of the crowd. Then, with a sickening crack, the concrete wall collapsed, killing some and spilling others onto the field in a murderous cascade of bodies and fractured concrete...
Heavy drinking is now a serious problem at stadiums and sports arenas. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who has been searching for a way to crack down on drug use by players, has talked of refurbishing baseball's "family image," a polite way of saying that something must be done about a new type of fan turning up at ball parks: the loutish young male who sloshes beer on other fans, starts fistfights at random and hurls objects from the stands. The Pittsburgh Pirates have set aside "family sections," where no beer is allowed. The Seattle Mariners have 3,500 family...
...place at lunch and dinner and during bilateral meetings between the participants. Reagan fared reasonably well during these talks. The leaders produced a statement applauding the "positive proposals" of the U.S. in the Geneva arms-control talks with the Soviet Union. They also pledged to study new ways to crack down on international traffic in narcotics. That topic arose unexpectedly at dinner Thursday night when Thatcher politely asked the American President about the progress of Nancy Reagan's antidrug campaign; the question touched off an animated discussion in which all seven heads of government joined...