Word: interna
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Olympic officials will be on the lookout for more than 300 drugs that athletes are forbidden to use. And, in what is the toughest action to date against drug users by any athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...
...worry though. He has scarcely settled into his uncomfortable regimen be fore he has bedded one of his therapists and received his first hints of the interna tional conspiracy that will preoccupy him for the rest of this loose-jointed remake of Thunderball. Once again, the scenario has something to do with the theft of nuclear warheads and their use as a blackmail weapon. The plot's mastermind is played with silky, neurotic charm by Klaus Maria Brandauer (so fine in Mephisto), while as his chief agent provocateur, Barbara Carrera deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered...
Meanwhile, local officials are busily attempting to woo more companies to the region and to turn Miami into an interna tional tional trading trading center. center. Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Inc. Inc. opened an aircraft engine part machining plant at Miami International Airport this year, and a number of electronics, pharmaceutical and medical-equipment companies are moving into the region. The Miami Free Zone, one of dozens of free-trade districts in the U.S. where imported goods can be stored and assembled with out being subject to Customs duties, has handled over $326 million worth of goods this year...