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- <text id=89TT0437>
- <title>
- Feb. 13, 1989: American Notes:Exports
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 41
- American Notes
- EXPORTS
- A Deadly Solvent
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When Iraq used poison gas to kill Kurdish civilians last
- year, the U.S. joined other nations in condemning chemical
- warfare. But last week it became clear that at least one
- American company has helped spread the deadly weapons. After
- Customs Service agents accused Baltimore-based Alcolac
- International, Inc., of illegally shipping hundreds of tons of
- thiodiglycol, a solvent that can be used in making mustard gas,
- the firm agreed to plead guilty to violating export laws.
- Prosecutors believe the chemical shipments eventually arrived in
- Iraq and Iran.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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