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Criminal records are made to be broken. In 1974 robbers got away with a $4 million cash haul at the Purolator Security warehouse in Chicago. That record stood until 1978, when $5.8 million in money and jewels disappeared from a Lufthansa cargo hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Last week that high mark fell once more, and again the record was set in New York City...
Operating from a house trailer in Guatemala City, the Elliotts now work to get shipments of roofing, food, blankets, clean water and medical supplies for their village. Every few days the Elliotts board a cargo flight to Nebaj, where 10,000 refugees, many burned out of their homes, huddle in camps. The planes land, amid bursts of guerrilla fire, and are immediately surrounded by the Elliotts' Ixil friends. Helen's eyes mist over. "Nebaj is the home of our children," she says. "Now most of the people understand the word of God because of Ray's work...
Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...
Traveling high over the Pacific Ocean on its sixth swing around the earth last week, the space shuttle Columbia once again made history. Firing its small thrusters, it rolled and turned so that its big cargo bay faced in the direction of flight. Clamshell-shaped sun covers automatically opened, and the cylindrical parcel underneath them was set spinning (at precisely 52 r.p.m.). With the press of a button, Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, fired explosive bolts, releasing the spring-loaded clamps holding the parcel. Out it popped, like some extraterrestrial jack-in-the-box. Forty-five minutes later, after Columbia...
...first time in the annals of space, a piloted ship had succeeded in launching an earth satellite. The trail-blazing cargo, formally known as SBS-3, was the third in a series of commercial communications satellites owned by Satellite Business Systems, a partnership of IBM, Comsat General and Aetna Life & Casualty. It was one of two look-alike satellites carried aloft by Columbia on its fifth voyage. The other, called Anik C-3 and owned by Telesat Canada, which runs that country's satellite communications, was launched with equal ease a day later. Both satellites are among the most...