Word: exports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working together, Western officials hope to fortify an export-control system that is clearly overloaded, underfunded and outdated. Since World War II, Western countries have jointly agreed on which products should be restricted through the Paris-based Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM). But as new items proliferate, regulatory agencies face what one observer calls a "world of grays," a mass of technical detail required for every licensing decision. Officials are finding it harder to monitor thousands of proscribed exports, as the line between military and civilian products becomes blurred and the potential uses of new products keep changing...
Pentagon officials were especially frustrated by the Consarc case because the technology breach was potentially devastating and perfectly legal. Consarc even managed to persuade the British Trade Ministry to insure the project for $11 million. Growled Stephen Bryen, who heads the Pentagon's export-control program: "This was an instance of really bad licensing by the British. It was an absolutely squalid case...
...Kevin Joseph Loy, acknowledged he had been approached by Wilhelmus Hans on behalf of Nugan Hand. In fact, a search of Loy's records produced copies of a weapons import permit from South Africa, dated September 18, 1975, another import permit from Singapore dated November 4, and an Australian export permit dated November 10--all involving weapons, but the lists not identical...
...sharp and metallic aftertastes -- were Manhattan Brewing Co.'s bottled Gold lager and its draught Oktoberfest and Amber beers. In bottles, Anchor's Porter, Liberty Ale and Wheat Beer, Boulder's Porter and Extra Pale Ale lacked authority, as did Minnesota's August Schell's Pilsner and Cold Spring Export "water-made." The best by far was the sophisticated, convincingly German-style Samuel Adams lager, followed by the clear, refreshing Dock Street Amber from Philadelphia and the tangy, cider-like New Amsterdam Amber. The heady, all malt Eau Claire lager from Wisconsin was perhaps the most interesting of all, with...
Reagan also said he was directing the departments of State and Treasury to bring about a ban on the export to Iran of 14 broad categories of U.S. products "with potential military application...