Word: exoduses
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...intercepted a shipment of Digital VAX computers bound originally for West Germany but headed instead to a destination in the Soviet Bloc. VAX computers have potential military applications, according to the Defense Department. As a result of the bust, a part of the Custom Service's counter-intelligence Operation EXODUS, Digital lost its general export license for several months. Without a general license, the company was forced to apply to the Commerce Department for special permission every time it wanted to ship a computer out of the country. "If you're doing a bit of selling that's obviously...
...travel to Czechoslovakia without restrictions, the Prague embassy has been used as a haven by refugees before. Faced with this week's influx, the Bonn government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl finally decided to order the embassy doors closed. As tactful West German officials were aware, the new exodus came just as the East German state was preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its founding under Soviet supervision...
...which Castro had agreed, few of which were really new. The Cuban leader, Jackson said, was willing to exchange ambassadors with the U.S. and to start talks soon on whether he would take back any of the Cuban criminals who had come to the U.S. in the boat exodus from Mariel in 1980. Most notably, he would release 22 Americans held on criminal charges. There was no mention of any Cuban political prisoners being freed...
...Raised on couscous, they had no taste for gefilte fish. Even their religious customs differed from those of the Europeans: at Passover, for example, the Sephardim are allowed to eat rice and legumes, which are forbidden the Ashkenazim. They also sometimes indulge in exuberant rites, energetically re-enacting the Exodus and slapping each other with onions as a reminder of the Egyptians' lashing of the Jews...
Another item on Peterkin's agenda will be how to reduce the exodus of students to private schools. About one third of Cambridge's school age children attend private schools, according to school officials...