Word: contraband
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Officials estimate that some $300 million worth of contraband comes into India a year, most of it by ship from Hong Kong and the Persian Gulf. The smuggling is organized along Mafia-style lines by gang bosses who frequently live with all the opulence of their screen counterparts. Operating their own fleets of fast, radar-equipped dhows, motorboats and trucks, they bring in gold, jewels, liquor and such luxury items as TV sets and hi-fi equipment for the benefit of a small elite of conspicuous consumers. They spirit out silver, Hindi movies (frequently financed by smugglers), which are much...
MUELNER WAS LUCKY: other victims of these "bonus" arrests were tried and convicted. There are no firm figures, but by reliable estimates, more than 80 per cent of arrests stemming from airport searches have nothing to do with aircraft security. The contraband seized in these cases is drugs and pornography, not guns and knives. (The FAA has now posted signs in the 531 U.S. commercial airports telling passengers of their right to avoid searches...
...September 1973. Boone appointed Raymond Porelle in December 1972 to clean up Walpole. Porelle had a reputation as a strict law enforcement officer and his assignment was to discipline both the prisoners and the guards. Porelle instituted a lock-up and shakedown in late December to rid Walpole of contraband drugs and alcohol. The tension between guards and prisoners increased so much during the lock-up that Porelle could not unlock a cell block without creating a disturbance...
...talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers in beige work clothes carried cartons from the trucks to a makeshift wharf. Israeli officers spot-checked the boxes for contraband by occasionally ripping open a package of sweets or a carton of cigarettes. The Egyptians then put the cartons on Russian-made amphibious tanks that churned slowly across the canal to the east side where they were unloaded. The process was slow and laborious...
...what is a bureaucrat? A Customs Service border guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...