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...acting as a middleman for Chinese arms dealers, including Robert Ma, head of U.S. sales for Poly Technologies, and Richard Chen, U.S. representative for Norinco. It was Ma, according to last week's complaint, who arranged for shipment of the rifles. They arrived in San Francisco aboard a Chinese freighter on March...
...code breakers who with rarefied intelligence and brain-fogging labor broke the German Enigma code in March 1943. Their feat, which helped turn the war at a very dark midpoint, allowed the reading of coded messages to and from German submarine wolf packs. The subs, whose attacks on U.S. freighter convoys in the North Atlantic were starving Britain, could then be tracked and sunk...
...while leaving the main plot intact. The film centers around excrook Jimmy Kilmartin (Caruso), who ends up caught between a corrupt Distcrict Attorney and an unforgiving mobster. Kilmartin, at the pleading of his cousin Ronnie, is coerced into driving a tuckload of stolen cars across Manhattan to an awaiting freighter. It is hard to forget the bizarre sight of four brightly lit trucks barreling through the streets of Manhattan. When the cops arrive on the scene, the rest of the drivers flee leaving Kilmartin to take the fall...
...least 34 passengers aboard a ferry drowned when a freighter plowed into the vessel in Manila Bay last night. Most of the 600 people aboard the ferry were asleep and heard no warning alarms when the accident occurred. Ships in the area picked up 451 people from the sea; the rescue effort and investigation continue. The collision left a three foot hole in the lower deck of the ferry. Many of the dead were women and children found inside cabins. The accident occurred the day the ferry company went public.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Surat is one example of many people brought together hurriedly. Cholera arrived in South American in 1991 in the bilge water of a freighter. A more recent example of cholera attack appears in the migration of 20,000 Rwandans to Zaire two months ago. The result of a massive disruption in demography was an epidemic of cholera...