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...Bush Administration seems content to discourage chemical, biological and nuclear arsenals while assisting the conventional buildup. Last week it tightened Commerce Department regulations restricting the export of materials that could be used to produce chemical and biological weapons and missile-delivery systems. The new rules also apply to "dual use" chemicals and equipment, which have legitimate commercial uses but might serve in making chemical and biological weapons as well...
Some Japanese argue that the same constraints that kept them from sending soldiers to war may now bar them from certain peacetime jobs. They point out that Japan's laws ban the export of military weapons and equipment to manufacture arms. The terms are broadly defined. Under these rules, Japanese firms cannot even export equipment to remove mines (although in the past some companies, feeling less constrained, haven't minded selling high-tech equipment with potential military applications to the Soviet Union). "Japan was bashed for only providing money for the war and not participating directly," says Masao Takemoto...
...Israel, Saddam said, could allow the existence of an Iraq with "beefed-up military muscles." Saddam contended that Saudi Arabia and certain emirates in the gulf were involved in this "conspiracy." Economic pressure had come into play, with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates violating the oil-export quotas that had been set down by OPEC. The price of oil had dropped from $21 to $11 per bbl., which, he said, "spelled economic ruin" for Iraq...
When the Ayatullah Khomeini became the regional monster a dozen years ago, Washington feared he would export his revolution across the gulf. That was one reason the U.S. at the time backed Khomeini's enemy, Saddam Hussein...
...economy that relies on products of the land for export earnings, the rural crisis is especially painful. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, now retired to his sheep and cattle ranch in the state of Victoria, warns that the slump could be the worst since the Great Depression 60 years ago. According to the New South Wales Farmers Association, its members are selling out and leaving the land at the rate of one every two hours. Says Daryl Reading of Gowrie: "It makes you mad. We're good at what we do, but we still can't make a living...