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...late November 1989, American intelligence reported that the Soviet freighter Vladimir Ilyich, bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility...
...midair destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. That disaster, said the commission's tough 182-page report, "may well have been preventable." The report blamed Pan Am's "seriously flawed" security system for loading an apparently unaccompanied suitcase containing a plastic explosive into the cargo hold of the New York-bound Boeing...
...they are held hostage until smuggling fees are paid by relatives. The smugglers typically cram 20 to 30 aliens in each padlocked room for days on end, leaving them to sleep and defecate on the floor. Occasionally, their heads are shaved in order to subjugate them. "It's human cargo, one of the most despicable things on the face of the earth," says Gerald Klippness, a Los Angeles INS official. "These aliens don't have any idea what's in store for them...
...displace U.S. workers or burden the welfare system. According to recent studies, immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born citizens to start new businesses. If so many people are desperate to enter the U.S. by any means possible, then the best way to fight the black market in human cargo is to open up more legitimate means of entry...
BUSINESS: The booming market in human cargo...