The World - News from July 11, 1985
Five British businessmen were sentenced to prison for up to 15 months or fined for conspiring to export military components to South Africa through a web of companies in defiance of a 1977 U.N. Security Council embargo. Prosecutors in Birmingham, England, said that parts for heat-seeking missiles and gunsight gears were sent in crates marked “mining equipment.” Four South Africans also charged in the plot jumped bail and returned home.
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