The World - News from Dec. 18, 1986

Israel exported newly developed military equipment despite warnings from its security agencies that the sales could reveal technological secrets, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said. Rabin said he approved the sales in an effort to aid the government-owned arms development authority. “I made the decision against the opinion of all the field security agencies,” he said, adding that it was not known if the risk would prove to be economically worthwhile. An arms development authority spokesman said that several types of weapons systems were sold abroad, but he did not specify which countries received the equipment.