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Current clients include India, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Iran and, biggest of all, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. A large-scale purchaser on its own, Libya has long been known to be a conduit for Czechoslovak-made arms to such terrorist groups as Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Italy's Red Brigades and the Irish Republican Army...
Harvard-NYNEX/Fujitsu electricians began work on a conduit for the new system in the Lowell basement two months ago. But further work was postponed until February 12, to give students more privacy and less hassle during reading and examination periods...
...problem of how to handle unconfirmed reports is common to all news | organizations, but it is especially acute for CNN. The network's instant worldwide reach (it is beamed officially to 89 countries and watched by many world leaders) has made CNN a conduit for governments and individuals who want to spread news -- or plant leaks. When the U.S. invaded Panama in December, the first Soviet protest was delivered not to the U.S. embassy but to a CNN crew. This role makes it essential that CNN be especially alert to the possibility of being manipulated. "We are well aware...
...Nicu, who directed security troops in a bloody battle in the city of Sibiu, was expected to be executed. A brother, Marin Ceausescu, 74, was found hanged in the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, where he had headed the trade delegation and was widely believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae allegedly transferred millions of dollars into Swiss bank accounts. The provisional government notified Switzerland that it would request the assistance of the courts there to try to recover the funds...
Because the auction houses trade in volume and compete intensively for material, they can sometimes be an unwitting conduit for fakes, particularly in ill-documented but now increasingly expensive areas of art. Few forgers would be dumb enough to try to send a fake Manet, let alone a forgery of a living artist like Jasper Johns, through Sotheby's or Christie's. But where fakes abound, some will inevitably turn up at auction; and where millions of dollars abound, fakes will breed...