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...Reagan Administration this year has pumped an additional $8 million into the Customs Service to help shut off the illegal flow of technology abroad. The program, called Operation Exodus, relies heavily on tips from manufacturers and shippers to stop unlicensed exports from leaving the country. The effort has so far netted 573 seizures valued at some $45 million and led to the arrest of Kessler. U.S. Customs has been proudly touting this record. Says Commissioner William von Raab: "Individual seizures aren't that important in themselves. But they're a measure of what I call the screw...
Although public attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
Everyone in Baghdad corners people coming in from the southeastern city of Basra, wanting to know what is happening near the front. The exodus of panicky Europeans from Basra has become a virtual flood, and the anxiety there about the future is reminiscent of the feeling in Iran during the Shah's last days...
...competency debate has its analogues in the shift towards more stringent college admissions requirements for instruction in specific subjects and in the thorny issues of equal access raised by the exodus of-well-off families from public to private schools. Reagan, clearly, would have no qualms about stringent basic-competency programs. Chances are, he would argue that such "survival of the fittest" strategies and the resulting drop in unprepared college students would solve the college competency problem far more efficiently than would struggling to improve the high schools. Conditioned to view education as yet another marginal social program draining...
...these words: "And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt." (Exodus 3:9-10) Their rescue effected. God's chosen soon turned oppressive themselves; the prophets lament their injustice. The New Testament mission of Jesus is peculiarly concerned with the poor and oppressed, the sick and the hungry and the sinning--it is they who have most need of his message...