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...export restrictions prohibit the sale of sensitive equipment to the Warsaw Pact nations, but the Soviets have found willing channels abroad. West European businessmen will buy the desired hardware and export it to dummy European companies, which then reexport it to the Soviet Union. Austria and Switzerland, with relatively lax controls on imports, have become favored trading posts. Says an executive from one Silicon Valley company: "If every piece of equipment shipped to Vienna stayed there, the city would sink...
...Chen argued that most Asian nations are still groping to find that policy. In South Korea, too rigid government planning has led the country into several unsuccessful ventures like automobile manufacturing. The crucial task for governments, said Chen, will be to seek out a course that is neither too lax nor too heavyhanded...
Such corporate safeguards are often shockingly lax, particularly when the transmission of computer data is involved. Many firms now routinely bounce this information off satellites instead of sending it over telephone lines. But satellite transmissions are easier to intercept. Companies often fail to take elementary precautions even when they use phone lines. Bank of America transfers about $20 billion by wire every day, for example, without making much use of either scrambling or encryption techniques for protection. The largest U.S. bank relies instead on its own security procedures...
Paris has thus become the Continent's undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience...