Word: contrabanding
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...else has to make do with a single state-run TV channel that serves up a starchy diet of Kim coverage, propaganda songs and chaste films with revolutionary themes. But errant desires are hard to control: the document states that customs authorities seized twice as much porn and other contraband in 2002 as they did in 2001. Toxic foreign influences typically enter the country via its porous border with China, across which Chinese and North Korean traders smuggle videotapes and music cassettes. While food remains in desperately short supply, surplus porn has sent prices tumbling. In 1995, according...
...take samples, determine what they are and figure out the best way to handle them. The Army also recently sent to the Persian Gulf its 520th Theater Medical Laboratory, the most sophisticated portable toxin tester in the U.S. military and the only one of its kind. The search for contraband weapons would begin in the war's opening hours and continue until the U.S. is confident it has found all such stockpiles--something that could take months, U.S. officials...
...that it was "part of their operating business plan to sell cigarettes to and through criminal organizations." The E.U. says RJR gave its "criminal customers" special treatment: removing the tracking codes from their shipments, sending invoices separately from the cargo and allowing them to pay through multiple intermediaries. Enabling contraband sales, the lawsuit claims, allowed RJR to increase its market share in those countries while avoiding taxes...
...allowed the Spanish navy, acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, to seize it in international waters in the Arabian sea. Those irregularities, and the fact that its unlisted cargo of 15 SCUD missiles bound for Yemen was hidden under thousands of bags of cement certainly conveys an air of contraband, but Yemen immediately insisted that it had purchased the missiles in an above-board transaction with North Korea, and that such a transaction violated no laws. Washington decided to hand over the missiles because there was no legal basis to hold them, although U.S. officials still have many questions over...
...right to take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed as the fruits of an illegal search and thus not be admitted in court as evidence? FRANK H. STALEY Upper Marlboro...