Word: contrabanding
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...slipped into the country through Miami International Airport in late 1990 was large but not extraordinary. The clues to its origins, however, were tantalizing. The U.S. Customs Service, which discovered and confiscated the drugs, learned from Venezuela's secret police that their country's National Guard was behind the contraband. Joining the probe, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration made an even more surprising discovery: the shipment was under the direct supervision of General Ramon Guillen Davila, Venezuela's top drug fighter and a close collaborator with U.S. counternarcotics operations...
...compromise was in the air at congressional hearings last week, as Senators mugged for the cameras and traded contraband bottles of Happy Camper and Manhood Plus. Even Hatch was in a forgiving mood, conceding that his bill "may not adequately address the safety issue" and admitting that "the language is not drawn tightly enough to prevent false and misleading claims." ^ Insiders say congressional leaders are working on revised bills that would ensure easy access to vitamins but support strict policing of labels for fraudulent claims, giving protesters and the Hollywood crowd what they want while providing the FDA and consumers...
...take actions against violators commensurate with the sanctions the international community levies against nations which flout nuclear and chemical weapons proliferation treaties. We must blockade all shipments of ink and paper to renegade publications. We must boycott shows put on in violation of the treaty. Pagemaker will be contraband technology for those who do not sign, and Kinko's will be off limits...
...Wheaton probed deeper, he discovered that six heavy crates, which he suspects contained contraband arms, had been loaded into the jet's cargo bay in Cairo without military customs clearance. To squeeze them onto the plane required removing some of the soldiers' duffel bags. Gerald De Porter, the former Army customs inspector there, who is now working as a pharmacist in Fayetteville, North Carolina, says, "I couldn't check the cargo because I wasn't issued a pass to go out on the tarmac...
Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...