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Under federal law, "it is illegal to put anything in a post box that doesn't bear postage," said Lisa DeVincenzo, a spokesman for the Boston branch of the federal postal system. Such violations of postal regulations are subject to $300 fines, she said...
...tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. "There's a load of unguided missiles in the night sky," he says. "We've been lucky thus far that none...
Among other things, the Palestine Liberation Front was responsible for the 1979 attack on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, where an Israeli man and his five-year-old daughter were murdered. Abbas' branch of the P.L.F. has cultivated increasingly close military links with Arafat's Fatah organization. In 1982, Abbas moved to Tunis, where he now commands about 1,500 fighters. Abbas is a member of the executive committee of the Palestine National Council, a post he could not hold without Arafat's backing...
Senior U.S. intelligence sources confirmed to TIME that such a plan existed. According to one source, a seagoing branch of the U.S. antiterrorist Delta Force, composed essentially of Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces), was not ready to carry out the operation on Tuesday, but was able to launch an attack by Wednesday night. The U.S. plan called for the SEALs, who had been practicing their assault at Akrotiri, Cyprus, to glide from the air ^ onto the Achille Lauro. After the initial assault, Navy helicopters would have brought in more Delta teams. The U.S. apparently knew in advance...
...terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried out by Force 17, a commando unit from the Fatah branch of the P.L.O., a claim the organization denied...