Word: contrabanding
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...Soviet Union boasts some of the tightest border controls in the world, but they are not tight enough to hold back a thriving network of Russian dealers in contraband currency that stretches from Peking to Paris and points beyond. Last week a Kazakhstan factory owner went on trial in Alma Ata after he was nabbed wearing a money belt crammed not only with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which...
...Contraband luxury goods such as cosmetics, radios and lingerie, once burned in public bonfires because they "aroused wanton desires in the minds of the people," are now being sold openly in government commissaries-to foreigners who bring in needed capital. Alcohol tax rates, which were doubled by Park, have now been reduced because South Korea's breweries suffered an 80% slump in consumption in the first six months of this year...
...British Poetaster Rowland Howard Wholesale street-corner thefts of St. Paul newspapers approached 1,500 copies every Sunday; every petty crook in town seemed anxious to make a killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd...
Petulant Purge. By then, the whole affair was beginning to look more than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband copy of the Tribune. But Salinger set it aside unopened, to defend the boss's right not to read any paper he likes. "The First Amendment to the Constitution grants the right of the press to print what it wants," said Salinger solemnly, "and the right of readers...
When General Park's reformers began to get tough, Han fled into the interior. For months he moved from village to village before government agents finally nabbed him. Han's nine colleagues in contraband, still behind bars, will probably also get the death penalty. Promised General Park last week: "We will send all smugglers to the gallows...