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...Lufthansa Airlines cargo facility at New York's Kennedy International Airport is called one of the safest in the world. The "valuable room," a white brick structure about one story high, is rigged with electronic alarms and monitored 24 hours a day by closed-circuit television. Yet last week six masked men, acting with speed and daring worthy of Lufthansa's own Red Baron, broke through this security to pull off the biggest cash robbery ever in U.S. history...
...grown from 25,000 to a city of 700,000 people. But its municipal facilities have not kept up. Mexicali uses the New River as well as the nearby Alamo as all-purpose sewers for everything from toilets to slaughterhouses. After the New River leaves Mexico with its vile cargo, it meanders for about 55 miles through California's agriculture-rich Imperial Valley before emptying into the Salton Sea, center of a popular recreation area...
...robbers, armed with a shotgun, a pistol, and three revolvers, beat a guard and bound him and the nine other workers at the Lufthansa Airlines cargo area. One worker was forced to reveal the combination to a safe...
...YORK AP--Five heavily armed men overpowered a guard and nine workers at a high-value cargo area of Kennedy International Airport yesterday and stole an estimated $5 million in cash and jewels, police said...
...Hong's passengers-mostly ethnic Chinese-represent a new type of refugee. There is some evidence that the ship and its human cargo left Viet Nam with the knowledge of either the Hanoi government or high Vietnamese officials. Refugees have testified that since July a scarcely concealed escape network has been in existence that allows people, especially of Chinese descent, to leave the country for a price-currently about 10 oz. of gold, or roughly $2,000, per person. "It's all organized by the government," says one Vietnamese Chinese who arrived in Thailand this month. "They want...