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Mr Tappin, president of the Kent County Golf Union, is accused of conspiring to export defence articles without licence or approval and aiding and abetting the attempted export of defence articles without the required licence.
BBC: London businessman vows to fight US extradition
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As a sign of how quickly hackles can rise, take the reaction to a sensible-sounding plan by the Clinton administration to speed the approval of military-equipment sales to favoured allies who are prepared to match America's defence-export restrictions.
ECONOMIST: Defence contractors: Arms across the sea | The
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Europeans are dismayed by America's insistence on negotiating over defence-export regimes on a country-by-country and ultimately, company-by-company basis, instead of dealing with a block of allies, such as the six European nations that agreed last summer to harmonise controls on military technology.
ECONOMIST: Defence contractors