Word: contraband
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...none of the three new guards in California's state prison system for men have been assigned to conduct "skin searches" of nude prisoners for contraband. Nor have they been asked to work in the prison shower rooms or in the adjustment or segregation areas where men thought to be troublemakers are confined. That day may come, however, despite the fact that all three of the guards are women. Prison officials say that they "aren't making any concessions as to what these women might be called upon to do" in an emergency. All three-Joyce Zink...
Walpole state prison has been in turmoil since last December when Superintendent Raymond Porelle ordered a seven-week "lockup" of inmates while a search was made for weapons and other contraband...
Typically, the big-time operators deal in more than just drugs. After they deliver their opium to smugglers on the Thai border, Lo's huge caravans?often 200 mules and 200 porters, guarded by 600 troops?frequently return to Burma with contraband ranging from trucks and airplane parts to bolts of cloth and auto engines. Lo, says one U.S. official, "doesn't go empty-handed either...
...package the stuff, "chemists" who turn morphine base into pure heroin for $400 a kilo, and "mules" who will carry it to its destination for $1,000 plus plane fare. The narcotics trade has been a boon to Paraguay's so-called "Mau Mau" pilots. The pilots fly contraband drugs north to the U.S. from Buenos Aires or from any of 500 tiny airstrips that dot Paraguay. The pilots joke that they have a "Cessna 500" (which can carry 500 Ibs. of cocaine) or a "Cessna 130" (130 kilos of heroin...
...Arabs will cross over the Allenby Bridge for visits of up to 90 days to the occupied West Bank. To thwart the fedayeen, Israeli guards open even tinned food and examine toothbrushes for explosives. Two-man teams expertly strip trucks down to engine and frame in their search for contraband. Occasionally a suspected guerrilla is turned back...