Word: vodka
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...been six U.S. Presidents, five Soviet leaders -- and four actors playing 007 -- since Dr. No opened to no special acclaim. But the spy created by Novelist Ian Fleming is still in business: saving the world from megalomaniac crime masters, heartless femmes fatales and indifferently prepared vodka martinis. It's a big business too. The first 14 Bond films presented by Albert R. ("Cubby") Broccoli have earned something like $2 billion around the world. (Broccoli did not produce the 1967 parody Casino Royale or Connery's free-lance return to the role in 1983's Never Say Never Again...
...Prohibition, Americans looked northward for booze, as truckloads of illicit liquor poured from Canada into a thirsty U.S. These days the high-proof smuggling traffic is operating in reverse, as Canadians try to get around their country's steep taxes on hooch. A 1 3/4-liter bottle of Smirnoff vodka sells for as much as $26.50 in Canada, with taxes accounting for nearly $22 of the price. A similar size bottle can be had for only $16 across the border in New York. "There's little stigma attached to smuggling liquor," says William McKissock, a senior Canada Customs antismuggling officer...
...garnished with wisps of coriander and onions or more substantial bits of pork. (Travelers who want to enjoy the delights of food at unhygienic street stands as well as in the inexpensive, lively people's restaurants should carry their own chopsticks and spoons and an airline-size bottle of vodka, which is handy for cleaning bowls, dishes and cups...
...years since Mikhail Gorbachev cracked down on alcohol consumption in the Soviet Union, many liquor outlets have closed, and legal production of vodka has been scaled back 30%. The Soviet leader claims that as a result crime is down significantly...
...Soviet officials revealed last week that 200,000 people were prosecuted in 1986 for illegally making their own booze. Soviet moonshining has traditionally been confined largely to rural folks, but last year 40% of the offenders were urban dwellers. Half were under 30, and many were housewives concocting homemade vodka, or samogon, to pay for household expenses. Worse, some 200 thirsty comrades have died from drinking alcohol substitutes like antifreeze...