Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days when equipment was scarce--in a way, they've always been more out of the band than in it. But the Glimmer Twins, Mick and Keith, and, in the early days, Brian, always knew where to go for "a little c-o-k-e." A lot of the contraband that has kept the Stones in and out of court-rooms and tabloids all over the world came from the man they called "Spanish Tony," who carved his little niche of rock and roll history on the original Beggar's Banquet album cover: "Spanish Tony Where Are You," scrawled...
Anti-I.R.A. attitudes have hardened in the Republic in the wake of the Mountbatten assassination, and police there appear to be having some success at curbing the guerrillas' activities. Late in October, Dublin authorities seized a large shipment of contraband U.S.-made arms that included M60 machine guns, and last week they began the trial of two I.R.A. defendants charged with planting the bomb on Mountbatten's boat. Though the two, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, are pleading innocent, detectives testified that they had traces of gelignite explosive material, sand and paint from the boat...
...following a fleeing outlaw. Carefully catalogued tire tracks and footprints can be used as evidence in court. Twelve people were convicted in the Norman-Taylor case simply because Lawrence linked tire tracks and footprints to the drug cache, the airplane flying that night, and other trucks used for hauling contraband. Two of the smugglers were prominent Tucson restaurant owners, Marc and Mike Norman. When the case went to court, a judge had quashed a defense motion to suppress evidence by writing: "These defendants were done in by a skilled and experienced tracker...
...Various [joint] committees are now studying certain aspects of our mutual relations: financial and commercial exchanges; the movement of persons [into the U.S.]; drugs, which are being controlled increasingly on this side of the border; and contraband from the U.S. into Mexico. Taken together with the problem of the capital market, all these questions must be looked into carefully, because a curious thing is happening: at times of crisis, Mexicans take their money out of Mexico and put it into the U.S.; the U.S. accepts this Mexican capital but does not accept the Mexican worker. This is a problem that...
Usually they attend a crash course in how to handle themselves. In summer, hundreds of vacationing college kids turn up and volunteer. Those "after adventure" are turned down. So is anybody with a hippie look-customs officials are bound to check them for nonreligious contraband such as drugs or diamonds...