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...also notes that the room checks are entirely visual, so students can easily hide their contraband kitchenware...
McNall began trading in artifacts, many of them stolen by tomb robbers in Turkey, Greece and Italy. To a Vanity Fair reporter last spring, he freely boasted of dealing in contraband (at 18, he said, he was smuggling gold coins) -- and if caught at it, quickly returning it. "What I don't need to have happen," he explained, "is my academic friends saying, 'You know, deep down morally these things are stolen.' And I do know that ... I tell all my people, 'If there's a whisper, give it back.' " McNall now prefers not even to whisper to the press...
Haiti's other elite, the families of Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants who grew rich enough during the years of junta rule to corner an additional 40% of the economy, also curse Aristide and his American patrons. As they guard their corrugated-steel warehouses, crammed full of the contraband goods that made them the junta's most powerful allies, they foresee disaster under the new regime. "When the U.S. disarmed the paramilitaries, they totally eliminated what little security this country had," says Rudy Chemaly, a recent millionaire. "I am sorry they didn't kill Aristide...
Castro then returned, disastrously, to Marxist principle. In February and March he cracked down on the flourishing black markets that had sprung up, particularly in food. Police stopped all vehicles coming from the countryside into cities and searched them for contraband food to make sure that farmers sold only to the state, not to private buyers. Food shortages intensified...
...join teams of 14 Canadians and 15 Argentines, the leading edge of a multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile border every...