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Thatcher and Major in the Dock
Hiro, Dilip | January 4, 1993 issue

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The release of 500 pages of previously classified government documents shows unmistakably that, in contravention of a publicly announced October 1985 ban on export of any military materiel to Iraq or Iran, British ministers approved shipments of a vast quantity of defense and defense-related equipment to Iraq's late 1987 until Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The trigger that set off this highly explosive charge was a court case. Three executives of Matrix Churchill Inc., a Coventry-based machine-tool company, were on trial, charged by British Customs and Excise with breaching the arms embargo against Iraq.

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EXPORTS; WEAPONS; MATRIX Churchill Inc.; ACTIONS & defenses; PROCEDURE (Law); IRAQ; IRAN
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