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Under ordinary circumstances the sale of IBM computers to Transnautic Shipping, a company based in West Germany, might serve as a stirring example of America's ability to compete overseas. Transnautic, a Hamburg firm that coordinates ship traffic in the West German port, has been a satisfied customer indeed, buying many high-tech IBM products over the past decade. But last week the Transnautic-IBM connection gained unwanted notoriety as a symbol of the internal dissension that marks the U.S. Government's campaign to protect America's high-tech secrets. Reason: 51% of Transnautic is owned by the Soviet Union...
...claim made in the United Nations the next day by Iranian President Ali Khamenei that the landing craft was a "merchant ship" and that the mine-laying charge was a "pack of lies." After the Iranian press agency claimed that the Iran Ajr was carrying food supplies to the port of Bushire, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger scoffed, "These things certainly weren't vegetables and fruits...
...officials, who requested anonymity, said the vessel Iran Ajr had been tracked by radar and by air for several days as it steamed through the central gulf toward Bahrain "because it had been seen loading suspect devices" before leaving an Iranian port...
That session was followed by a rousing youth festival, where 50,000 onlookers brandished blue and green flash cards and roared as John Paul attempted to don a gaudy Mardi Gras mask. "I love it," gushed twelve-year- old Kim Harrigan of Port Sulfur, La. John Paul then traveled to an outdoor Mass; some 200,000 rain-drenched worshipers attended...
...Must Remember This is about the less noisy desperation of the 1950s. For some it was the threshold of the affluent society. For the Stevick family of "Port Oriskany," an industrial city in western New York State, the decade is their introduction to the Age of Anxiety. The H-bomb, the Korean War and McCarthyism affect different Stevicks in different ways. Father Lyle, bookish owner of a secondhand furniture store, builds a bomb shelter in his backyard. Mother Hannah worries that this means they will never move from the sliding neighborhood, and Son Warren, wounded at Imjin, returns home...