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Since 1986, says Freedenberg, sales of American goods to Iraq have totaled more than $1.5 billion. All the while, other nations, including France, were feverishly selling weapons to Saddam -- without opposition from Washington. Reason: the U.S. was obsessed with making sure Iran would...
...Bryen, a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, who contends that Commerce is proving inept and overly permissive in its approval of export permits, allowing millions of dollars in strategic U.S. products to reach such final destinations as the Soviet Union, China and Iran. On the other side is Paul Freedenberg, an acting Commerce Under Secretary, who maintains that the Pentagon is overzealous and insensitive to the practical problems of accommodating America's Western trading partners...
...narrowed the gap on us to a year and a half. Due to our export restrictions, that gap is back up to seven or eight years." With an eye on the horrendous U.S. trade deficit, however, Commerce Department officials are openly sympathetic to the study's criticism. Says Paul Freedenberg, an assistant Commerce Secretary: "We can cut the list. We can be more responsive." The debate is likely to become sharper as concern over the trade balance continues to grow in the months ahead...
...primary with a massive grassroots organization, little attention has been given to the McGovern media operation which is one of the most extensive in history. McGovern travels with at least eight full-time press people, ranging from his press secretary, Dick Doughrety, to "media mothers" Polly Hackett and Carol Freedenberg...
Polly Hackett and Carol Freedenberg, the McGovern media mothers, have the sole responsibility of making sure that the press is kept aware. They travel on the buses with reporters, flirt with them, serve drinks and give out the releases that Doughrety and his staff write. When Doug Kneeland of The New York Times wants to know when he can get the name of a city where McGovern will be giving a speech later in the evening on national T.V., Hackett and Freedenberg will have to find...
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