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Prosecutors termed the shipment from Houston to Libya the largest illegal movement of explosives ever investigated by the U.S. Jerome S. Brower, a California explosives manufacturer and distributor who is an unindicted coconspirator, testified that Wilson, who left the CIA in 1970, said he wanted "as much as I could get" of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a plastic explosive known as C4. Brower said he shipped 42,300 Ibs. in 856 5-gal. cans disguised as "drilling mud," a chemical lubricant used in oil-drilling rigs, from California to Houston, where it was loaded aboard a leased...
...Langley, Va., by Joe Halpain, the Dallas firm's president. The final Gaddafi order was for 500,000 of the timers, for which he promised to pay $35 million. They cost only $2.5 million to produce. Explosives to go with the timers were illegally supplied by J.S. Brower & Associates of Pomona, Calif, another CIA contractor. Some 40,000 Ibs. of the high explosive RDX-the largest nonmilitary shipment on record-were flown to Libya in 55-gal. drums marked "industrial solvent." This was a risky enterprise since the drums could have exploded in flight in turbulent weather...
...from the sidelines, bending his style to any angle or knot that might suit his subject: in one piece, the raging differences between conservationists and the Federal government are tightly defined when McPhee boards a rubber raft headed down the Colorado along with Friends of the Earth founder Dave Brower and the U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation: "'Come on now, Dave, be honest' (the Commissioner) said. 'From a conservationist's point of view, what is the best source of electric power?' 'Flashlight batteries,' Brower said...
...Harvard attackwoman suffered a broken nose but stayed in the game, firing the final shot of her season just minutes later. The ball was wide by a few inches, and the Tigers passed it down the field to freshman superstar Kris Brower, who fired it past Nancy Boutillier to ice the victory for Princeton...
...Bulldog Brower earned his awesome reputation wrestling with the food at Tommy's, an Armenian-American greasy spoon on Mt. Auburn, a spot of frenetic late night activity annex to the Cambridge Press Club...