Word: contraband
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...race begins in "Get Thee to a Nunnery" when a British intelligence agent (Peter Lawford) known for his chicanery tells Agents Robinson and Scott that he is all set to recover a fortune in World War II contraband from a local convent...
...fruits and vegetables; retail-price maintenance can be legally enforced in the branded-liquor industry but not in the market for new cars. The reasons may not be entirely understood but they are amenable to study. The same should not be impossible for illegal gambling, extortion, abortion, and contraband cigarettes...
Hussein's refusal to arm Jordan's Palestinian refugees against another attack by Israel had merely spurred the flow of contraband weapons that have been filtering quietly into refugee camps on both sides of the Jordan River. Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will...
...year-old chief of the Congo's elite Police des Mines, nearly everyone and everything coming out of the diamond-rich Kasai province is suspect. In search of an estimated $20 million in diamonds a year smuggled out of the Congo, he and his men have found contraband gems hid den in elephant tusks, embedded in bars of soap, even pumped into the stomachs of small edible crocodiles on their way to market...
...order to halt the smuggling, the Congo government has put major mining areas under martial law and increased the fines and jail sentences on contraband gem carriers. Kassanda is urging even stronger measures. "If not, smugglers will continue the traffic using their secret cavities," he says, "and all the fingers of the mines' police will not be enough to block the smuggling of our diamonds...