[fuzzycat]

His urgent memos "triggered the administration's decision to grant a waiver to Loral Space Systems to launch its satellite on Chinese rockets."
-- Defense writers Edward Timperlake and William Tripplett note that "it was Berger who led the charge to repeal e
xport controls on satellites for China."
And what was the name of the book ? I had it and loaned it out but never got it back. Also it was stated that where formerly these waivers could only be granted by State, Ron Brown was appointed head of Commerce and then the authority was transfered to Commerce. Loral and Hughes were involved in the guidance technology given to the Chicoms. Then Ron Brown-Arkancide ? Help me out here, I want to get that book again.

[GEC]

I think you're thinking of:

Year of the Rat

[GEC]

You should be able to find it at amazon. It looks like this here:


http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0895262495.01._SCTZZZZZZZ_.jpg