Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fined $1.5 million last week for violating the Export Administration Act. The Government said that the company should have known that Mueller, whose name appeared on his company's documents, was behind the deals. DEC denied any wrongdoing and said it had been victimized by a "notorious computer smuggler." The fine will be reduced by $400,000 if DEC's West German subsidiary does not commit any additional export violations in the next three years...
...Salvadorans and other Central Americans fleeing guerrilla war and political oppression as well as economic deprivation. But the largest group is composed of Mexicans who see little chance of earning a satisfactory living in their crowded homeland. To enter the U.S. most pay $250 to $350 each to smuggler-guides called coyotes, who sometimes rob or beat them. If they elude the INS, the immigrants usually can find jobs in an expanding Sunbelt economy. If employers sometimes pay them less than the $3.35 an hour minimum wage-well, they still earn substantially more than they could in Mexico, where...
...subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love affair, the second reveals the unavoidable reality of the times...
Most of the evidence against the Prime Minister and Cabinet is circumstantial and difficult to prove. So far, the only documented charge is that Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government George Smith accepted a $26,000 BMW sedan from a professed drug smuggler. But even in the absence of further proof, the commission's revelations have generated public resentment against Pindling's self-assured, 17-year rule...
...Harvard women's ski team came away from a two-day, nine-team meet at Smuggler's Notch. Vt. this weekend with impressive victories in all events to capture first place overall...