Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactic that is seen more and more frequently by authorities, the new parasmugglers fly over a drop zone marked by infrared beacons visible only to the pilot. They dump drugs in containers equipped with infrared glow lights and radio transponders. The plane flies on with doors and windows open so any remaining specks of cocaine are blown away, allowing the smugglers to pass Customs...
...some extreme cases, the crew members put the plane on automatic pilot, dump the drugs and bail out. Once on the ground, they locate the contraband by tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed...
...woman who used to teach here with me was ! in perfect health when she came, and she died of leukemia two years later." Not until last month, after well-to-do neighborhoods in Santa Maria got a strong chemical whiff one day, did the county government finally admit the dump was a problem. People in Casmalia are sure they have the official reluctance figured: revenues from the dump this year will be $40 million, with the county taking 10% off the top. "Money talks," says Phyllis Vaniter...
...percolate through the ground into his cattle's drinking water. "If that stuff ever gets into the water, we're through." As for the odor, it burns his sinuses and gives him headaches. "If you see a lot of trucks come in," says Tompkins, who lives close to the dump entrance, "you can pretty well bet there'll be a smell...
...deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...