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This can be a learn of export controls, excessive expertise and data and US controls. It appears on the impression of export controls at the usa, at the Allies and at the Soviet bloc.

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Among the better known examples of the use of export controls as an instrument of US foreign policy is the embargo placed on US goods intended for the 1980 Moscow Olympics in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then there was the grain embargo of 1980-1, whose casual administration by the Department of Commerce was soon to be exposed. 38 Oil and gas technology had been targeted for export control in 1978 to display indignation at various Soviet misdemeanours, particularly human rights infringements and the treatment of Anatoly Shcharansky.

18 The technical press screamed in dismay - to no avail whatsoever: Earlier this year Steve Byren, a deputy assistant secretary of defense, seriously tried to tell the US Computer and Business Manufacturers Association that Nato used off-the-shelf personal computers for its Distributed Command and Control System. 'We know this type of equipment is effective', he told the CBEMA. 'In a recent Nato exercise, the side using an Apple computer won' ... He probably went to school with the US Department of Defense spokesman who, when Sweden intercepted a Vax 11-780 being illegally exported to the USSR, claimed that Vax machines were 'used inside Russian cruise missiles as part of the guidance system'.

48 Japanese competitiveness in high technology had shown absolutely no sign of diminishing, and nor had American disquiet. It was easy to judge that a striking example of Japanese venality in high technology would be publicly acceptable and would illustrate convincingly the military cost of commercial profit. DoD calculations of the cost of coping with less noisy Russian submarines were reported variously as $8 billion and $30 billion and even $60 billion 49 - quite sufficient, whatever the figure, to put the commercial cost calculations of the NAS completely in the shade.

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