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...Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth. Specialized trucking firms called drayage companies haul goods in a narrow strip of U.S. territory along the border, where they exchange cargoes for transshipment to border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into Mexico. More than a fourth of the approximately 5,000 Mexican trucks crossing into Texas every day carry corrosives, chemicals, explosives, jet fuel and pesticides, according to Morales. While many trucks keep within guidelines, the volume makes it impossible for authorities...
...first lesson, certainly not a new one, is that the Harvard administration and police department should do more to fight crime. Take the Peabody Terrace garage thefts, for example. Theft at the garage is not a new phenomenon. Similar incidents have happened before...
...Postal Service into the disappearance of Library of Congress travel- and expense-reimbursement checks. The General Accounting Office is conducting a widespread inquiry into the library's financial, human resources and collection management. The U.S. Attorney's office is also conducting a criminal investigation into charges of theft at the library. According to a confidential report issued by afscme local 2477, the union representing some library workers, the Library of Congress is "an agency that can only be described as out of control." Says a congressional staff member familiar with the problems: "In terms of higher profile issues like...
...altogether some 300,000 volumes are missing. In 1992, after a spate of arrests, including that of a man who was caught leaving the library with two rare maps under his sweater, Billington beefed up security. Despite protests, he limited access to the stacks, and installed video cameras and theft-detection gates at the exits. Most important, the library agreed that it would notify both the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI of any "property offenses...
Barone said the University also oversees the magazine's spending, but he declined to give specifics on how Harvard might have acted to prevent the theft...