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...face meeting with Iraqi government officials in the cafe of the Cavendish hotel on London's Jermyn Street. On one side of the table sat Daghir, Jeanine Speckman and two men introduced as Iraqi government engineers. On the other side sat Kowalsky and his manager for finance and export, "Daniel Saunders." But Saunders was actually Daniel Supnick, 38, a U.S. Customs agent...
Pause. More conferring in Arabic, and as the meeting wore on, the Iraqis kept changing the specs until they fitted those of a nuclear warhead detonation capacitor. But Supnick informed them that the U.S. Government would not license the capacitors for export if the true destination, Baghdad, were revealed. The Iraqis' solution: the shipment would be described as parts for "computer-room air conditioners...
Other plants in Czechoslovakia are engaged in similar businesses, producing all manner of weaponry and components -- hand grenades, automatic rifles, tanks, armored personnel carriers -- almost all for export. In a high-security compound outside the industrial city of Brno, trainees from such countries as Angola, South Yemen and the People's Republic of the Congo are being drilled in what officials describe as "police methodology and criminology," a euphemism for paramilitary training...
...worth of impartial poll watchers and international inspection teams. But there is also a missionary strain in the American psyche that can inadvertently trample on foreign customs and cultures under the guise of strengthening democratic institutions. As the Hungarian experience suggests, democracy may be the U.S.'s greatest export, but that does not necessarily mean that American political operatives are the product's best service technicians...
...months that followed, Duarte tried unsuccessfully to get the peace talks back on track. He also implemented an austerity program that enjoyed greater support in Washington than in San Salvador. A hefty devaluation of the Salvadoran colon and a tax on coffee, the country's main export, pushed inflation to the 40% mark and raised unemployment close to 50%. Wary businessmen sought investments abroad, while some of the unions that had once supported Duarte joined a new opposition labor confederation. In October 1986 an earthquake flattened much of San Salvador, killing 1,500 people and inflicting $1 billion in damages...