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Prosecutors: Teledyne illegally supplied Iraq Industries tnc illegally export ed a blast MIAMI (AIM Teledvne enhancing ingredient for duster bombs bound for Iraq and con cocted a r over to make the ship ments look legitimate. U S pros e< utors i barged Monday in dux tng arguments at the trial of two employees from Oregon Export documents listing the intended use of zirconium sent to Chilean arms maker Carlos Cnrdoen ns a mining explosive for use in snow was a sales department joke, said Assistant U.S Attorney Eduardo Palmer "That's a snow job ail right, hut not much else.” lie said They laughed They knew it wasn't true.” The defense depit ted one defendant as a low-level worker who was out of the corporate loop on legal questions about exports and relied on his bosses for order approval and policies for dealing with Cnrdoen. Arguments were set Tuesday for the second defendant, to be followed by government rebuttal and jury instructions Teledvne paid n $4 million fine in January to avoid trial over its zirconium shipments, which went into $150 million worth of duster bombs Cnrdoen sold to Iraq during its all-out war with Iran in tin* l'lHOs Out of the jury's hearing, the defense claimed Teledyne had secret CIA approval for the ship ments during the Reagan and Hush administrations when the United States was openly neu tral in the war. But U S District Judge She I tn Highstnith has barred mv testimony on the subjcH t Telodyne nrt onium saUnunan Edwml Johnson is charged with i onspira* y and export viola* tions, and /iruimmn ordnante •'\pert Ronald Griffin is at i used of lying to investigators about when he Iws ante aware the met al from Teledyne Wait Chang Albany of Albany, Ore was going into bombs Johnson, 55, who testified for three days, feels duped lie feels he's been bed to. He's been tricked all along," Palmer said "Does he stop dealing with the (lardoen organization? No " Gerald Houlihan, representtng Johnson, ended his arguments i lose to tears, asking jurors. "Please send him home." "What do you do when you're a little guy in a corporation and somebody tells you what to do?" the attorney asked "Ed Johnson relied on his bosses it evert stage in this period " If he were guilty. Houlihan said Johnson would have destroyed any incriminating company records at the end of the Iran-traq war, during a 1990 C.ommeri e investigation or dur ing Desert Storm "Why would he jeopardize ins life for anyone like t -ardoeii ’ What was his motivation?" Houlihan asked. "He had no motive to do anything illegal ” Johnson averaged $l) million in annual sales, Cardoen repre sented less than 1 1 percent of his sales in any year, and John son received no commission on Cardoen's purchases. the defense said. 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