Word: contrabanding
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...week working over their bookkeeping, figuring out which cons had already paid off their debts to society. Top time savers turned out to be the rank and filers of the booming cigarette-smuggling trade, whose king-size fines had been calculated according to the value of their contraband. Unexpectedly, scores have already paid for their freedom and will soon be free to rush back to their launches and false-bottomed trucks...
...Delegate Adlai Stevenson detected a dangerous loophole. The resolution said nothing about banning foreign arms shipments into the Congo, nor did it authorize Hammarskjold's forces to search arriving planes or trucks for such contraband. Since the U.A.R. itself had been busily sneaking arms and equipment to Congo Rebel (and Russia's chosen puppet) Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville, Stevenson suspected the omission was deliberate, at least as far as the U.A.R. was concerned. Under pressure from the aroused Africans, who were in no mood to change their proposal, Stevenson finally had to vote for the measure, figuring that...
...detected a couple of dangerous loopholes. The resolution said nothing about the shipment of foreign arms and equipment into the Congo, and did not give Hammarskjold's men the right to intercept such contraband. This was, after all, the key to peace. But when the U.S. proposed amendments to close these loopholes, some of the resolution's backers were strangely reluctant to agree; one of them was Nasser's U.A.R., which had been trafficking in arms for Gizenga for some weeks and perhaps wanted to continue doing...
Crash Programs. Human contraband, says Author Terrot, was appallingly easy to smuggle out of the country. Small children were frequently doped and shipped across in coffins provided with air holes. Many of the teen-age victims, believing themselves bound for a pleasant position on the Continent, went willingly. The unwilling victim was first "broken in" at the London clearinghouse, where she was brainwashed by a covin of resident witches who subjected her to a crash program of sex education. If she did not cooperate, she did not eat. Then, auctioned off in Brussels or Antwerp, then the chief centers...
...hyperbolic plot hardly matter. What is the man doing off the coast of South West Africa in a vessel fitted out as a lowly trawler, but bearing high-speed engines in the hull of a yacht? The shoreline he approaches is forbidden, diamond-rich territory; is Peace after contraband...