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Fear of an explosion of discontent may have persuaded Honecker to open the gates a little. "A few months ago, you could have cut the mood here with a knife," says a Western diplomat in East Berlin. "The whole thing smacks of crisis management." But the exodus also enhances Honecker's image across the border as a more benign, if not exactly popular, patriarch who is willing to take risks for the sake of detente. Explains a West German official: "Honecker knows the road to other West European capitals goes through Bonn...
Meanwhile, the government has been more zealously limiting travel by foreign scholars, mostly from the Soviet Union and China, and the Commerce Department recently initiated "Operation Exodus," which is aimed at checking the export of high technology information...
...sting was part of Operation Exodus, an effort led by the Customs Service to stem the illicit export of defense-related technology. In this case, an undercover agent had posed as a defense-equipment broker and rented a New Jersey office as a front. The defendants, meeting with the agent in his office and unaware that hidden cameras were taping the session, offered to buy 100 transverse-wave-tube amplifiers, which are used in missile guidance systems, for $12,500 each. In addition, the suspects gave the agent a $1 billion shopping list of computers and other advanced electronic equipment...
Since Operation Exodus began in 1981, the Customs Service has seized 2,851 illegal shipments of defense-related equipment worth $177 million. The Soviet Union has been the leading destination, but U.S. officials say smuggling to China is on the rise. Ironically, the Reagan Ad ministration loosened restrictions in November to let China buy somewhat more powerful American computers than the country was previously allowed to receive...
Over the part four years, Mathey said, three million people-or 25 percent of the Afghan population-have been forced from their homeland. He called the exodus the greatest number of refugees anywhere since World...