Word: contrabanding
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...Many believe that Manigat, eager to assert his own authority over the army, simply moved too fast in his attempt to shake up the military's high command. Others assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup was a brilliantly executed scheme in which the military feigned an internal split to force Manigat...
...Defense to "substantially halt" drug smuggling by air and sea within 45 days. The Air Force and Navy would "locate, pursue and seize" all vessels carrying drugs and "arrest their crews." The military would also provide blanket radar coverage of the entire southern border to detect nighttime flights of contraband. Presto. Pass a bill. Problem solved...
...stay in New England, we have the good-old-fashioned ski vacation. Celebrate the advent of spring with a week more of winter! There is still snow on the mountains and refreshments in the lodge, although things sometimes go wrong. Inevitably, one novice, influenced either by egotism or contraband stimulants, will attempt a black diamond trail and wind up as a permanent part of the mountain...
...Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the 1963 film starring Sophia Loren, postwar Naples was awash with contraband cigarettes. Today the Italian city is afflicted with a more serious criminal commodity: heroin. Addiction among the young is so widespread that parents have begun to hire private eyes to keep a drug watch on their children...
...traffic. Fumed Von Raab: "I was snookered." Von Raab is skeptical about talk of Panamanian cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. "Just because they throw a few crumbs to us or any other agency," he says, "it doesn't change the character of the country as a flea market for contraband...