Word: exportability
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...suspects, Iran and Libya. The Iranian government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was known to be angry and frustrated over its inability to stop its enemy Iraq from attacking tankers using Iranian oil facilities in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians were also upset about Iraq's intention to export more of its own oil via planned pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia. So it made sense to suppose that Iran might have planted mines in the Red Sea as a way of retaliating against each of those countries as well as against Egypt, which has given heavy support...
Locked into its no-win war with Iraq for almost four years, Iran has been either unable or unwilling to launch a land offensive that has been expected since March. Iraq, deprived of its export facilities in the gulf, has been unable to transport enough oil over its remaining outlet via Turkey to meet its quotas under the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Work is expected to begin soon on two pipeline projects, including one that would cut across Jordan to the port of Aqaba, and another that would join with Saudi Arabia's petroline and carry Iraqi...
More alluring still was the promise of big deals and easy money that Wilson laid before dazzled guests at his 3,000-acre estate in the Virginia hunt country. Some enthusiastically accepted jobs in his flourishing export business. To those who wondered how a man who said he was a Government employee could be raking in so much cash and whether the whole setup did not reek of illegality, Wilson had a ready reply: his vast arms business in the Middle East was an officially sanctioned cover for his real work, which was gathering intelligence...
Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle intrigued a congressional committee by showing how a modified Apple II computer could be used to direct missile firing and communications. The Reagan Administration has been trying to crack down on the export of powerful computers to the Soviet Union, and last December Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed off just such a machine, a VAX by Digital Equipment, that had been halted as it was about to be shipped. Now the U.S. is trying to stop the export of some microcomputers...
...updating of export guidelines, the U.S., Japan and their NATO allies have agreed to block the shipment of sophisticated or rugged microcomputers like the IBM PC-XT that could stand up to battlefield conditions. Because of pressure from U.S. allies, the new limitations, however, do not attempt an unrealistic embargo of the Apple II and other more fragile or less powerful machines. Said one Pentagon official: "We know that the Soviet plan includes acquisition of microcomputers from the West. Now we can slow them down...