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...transaction is perfectly blatant. A Jordanian customs official is bribed, illegal cargo is substituted for food and medicine, a false manifest is prepared, and the truck heads for the Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons...
...move that did nothing to improve its image, New York City sent off 2,200 tons of garbage to the heartland last month in search of a welcoming landfill. Alas, the detritus, occupying 30 railcars, was rejected in three states. After a 3,000-mile trip, the bug-infested cargo wound up back home, destined for the Staten Island landfill...
With that, a full-scale international relief effort got under way. Almost 100 tons of emergency supplies from the U.S. arrived in the first two days. Giant cargo planes also flew in from Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and other countries. The food and medicine were then trucked -- under Canadian guard -- into the desperate city of 400,000 people. In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said American air and naval forces would be available if they are needed to protect the relief flights or future truck convoys...
...long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled the satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay and attached a rocket booster that would enable it to achieve its proper orbit 22,300 miles high...
...satellite in distress is Intelsat-6, designed to carry international telephone traffic. It was launched in 1990 but was stranded 345 miles up -- about 22,000 miles short of its assigned orbit. The astronauts will pull the 4.5-ton satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay, strap a booster rocket onto it and send it on its way. Then four of them will suit up and go outside to try out construction techniques that will be used on the U.S. space station, Freedom, scheduled to be built by the late 1990s. They will also test the "astrorope," a device astronauts...