INTERNATIONAL
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A British court convicted an Iraqi man and a French woman of plotting to export to Iraq about 40 U.S.-made trigger devices for nuclear weapons. Ali Ashour Daghir, 49, was sentenced to five years in prison. Jeanine Speckman, 41, of France was remanded in custody and will be sentenced today. Daghir and Speckman, both executives at a British trading firm, Euromac, had denied they intended to evade a British export-prohibition order which covered the devices.
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