Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germany, police used bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol terminals, and some passengers were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac before it was loaded. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration asked airlines to put into effect special procedures that included holding cargo for 24 hrs. before shipment and discontinuing curbside baggage check-ins on international flights...
...crack down, however. A bureaucratic struggle between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full...
Also work harder. Earlier this month, for instance, the Soviets expanded the definition of "diplomatic pouch" to ship 35 tons of cargo marked embassy "household goods" out of Baltimore harbor without the presence of even a single Customs inspector. Pentagon officials blamed the State Department for naively waving the shipment through and failing to notify the proper Customs officials of the impending Soviet move...
...asked the South Western railway directorate, only to be told to get in touch with its Belorussian equivalent. The reply there: check with Moscow. Finally, Polyak queried the central search section of the Rail Ministry itself. He was informed that "it was not possible to do anything" because the shipment documents had routinely been destroyed after a year. No matter that the train had left less than a year before. Said Pravda: "Even Sherlock Holmes from Baker Street in London could have lost his way in the paper labyrinth...
...Reagan Administration's attempts to stanch the flow of technology to the Soviet Union, primarily directed at the shipment of computers, microelectronics and software, have also involved efforts to prevent publication or open discussion of certain unclassified technical research -- a policy that has angered many scientists. Yet there is growing evidence to , support Washington's concern. In an exclusive interview with TIME's Frank Melville in London, a former officer in the GRU, the Kremlin's military intelligence agency, has affirmed the fact that acquiring American high technology is the agency's No. 1 priority. Other comments of this recent...