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...bread -- the only food that reaches the refugees. On the mountaintop, the trailer is swarmed by struggling, fighting Kurds. The Turkish soldiers fire shots in the air and even swing rifle butts to hold back the crowd, but in vain; within minutes the trailer is stripped of its cargo. U.S., British and French pilots drop some supplies into the mountains by parachute from cargo planes, but nowhere near enough to alleviate most of the suffering...
...midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with a human cargo of condemned men who know that homecoming means an executioner's bullet. En route, these compromised trade representatives and diplomats "rarely slept, greedy for their remaining hours of introspection, pacing about the deck when they could stand the cold...
...T.F.A.P. was sold to the Third World as one more source of funding for traditional forestry projects. Little wonder that the plans tended to be short on ways to slow deforestation. Said a development expert: "For officials in the Third World, environmental aid has become a new form of cargo cult: Go through the motions of doing these assessments, and cargo will come...
Proksch, 56, the owner of Demel, the famous Vienna pastry shop, had been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...
...welcome at Westover was assembled on just 30 minutes' notice after the C-5A cargo jet, originally scheduled to fly into Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, was diverted...