Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Techniques have ranged from hiding drugs in objects -- like suitcases, plaques and aerosol cans -- to concealing them on the person. "I once had an innocent-looking Canadian couple in their 60s come back from a Jamaica holiday wearing body wraps containing 10 lbs. of hashish," recalls Miami Customs supervisory inspector Robert Hessler. Some couriers have been found with contraband stuffed in body orifices, others with cocaine-filled condoms in their stomachs. "Nothing is beyond what people will do," says Los Angeles Customs director John Heinrich, "even putting drugs in a baby's diaper and carrying the child through...
...employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
...budget slashes of the Reagan era. The FDA, for example, can assign only 910 staff members -- in contrast to 1,105 in 1977 -- to monitor food, including imports. Some foreign growers easily circumvent the process; produce from Mexico is often trundled across the border at Nogales, Ariz., on the inspector's day off. And the USDA last year fielded only 7,000 inspectors -- down from 10,000 eight years ago -- to examine the carcasses of nearly 120 million cows, pigs and horses and 5.6 billion chickens...
According to Joe Niccoloro, a Senior Inspector with the City of Cambridge, all 25 Harvard dining hall recently passed the twice-annual inspection which is required by law. Niccoloro admitted that there is an infestation problem at a number of these places, but stressed the fact that this is a problem all over the Back Bay area and that Harvard is making progress with control, making that a "number one priority." He noted that the city has the power to close down any food establishment within city limits which is "overrun" by an infestation problem--but "that depends on tabulation...
...popular uprising. There are riots everywhere. They are all furious," said Metropolitan Police Inspector Jose Lara Montilla, who commanded a police unit armed with shotguns in downtown Caracas...