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...upcoming meeting with Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon, he successfully urged the new bank chairman, John A. Bohn Jr., to provide another $200 million in loan guarantees the bank had earlier denied. At his meeting with Hamdoon, Bush was also able to assure the ambassador that because two more export licenses had been approved -- over Pentagon objections -- Iraq would soon have permission to make two long-sought purchases of American high technology. Eventually hundreds of export licenses would be approved to sell Iraq more than $600 million in dual-use technology. The purchases included a laser-guided welding system that Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bush Create This Monster? | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...also began to push for loan guarantees from the Federal Export-Import Bank, which helps American companies sell products abroad by offering loan guarantees. Documents made public by Gonzalez show that in December 1983, Under Secretary of State Eagleburger wrote a secret letter urging bank chairman William Draper III to open a line of credit for Iraq, though most of the world's financial institutions had stopped lending to Baghdad and the Export-Import Bank's own analysts had concluded that Iraq could not be counted on to repay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bush Create This Monster? | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...gulf war. For that matter, Martin Marietta shares classified contracts with Thomson-CSF for sophisticated terminally guided munitions. James Bell, chairman and president of Thomson-CSF Inc., the American subsidiary, told the U.S. Congress, "Thomson-CSF has an impeccable record on compliance with American security regulations and export controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Away the Weapons Store | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...train, whose operations are subsidized by the government, is now being considered for several routes in the U.S. -- a profitable triumph for French industry. In addition, the government is laying plans for a waste tax that will finance advanced waste- treatment plants, which could lead to an entire export industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: The Big Green Payoff | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit to Save the Earth: The Big Green Payoff | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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