Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials estimate that some $300 million worth of contraband comes into India a year, most of it by ship from Hong Kong and the Persian Gulf. The smuggling is organized along Mafia-style lines by gang bosses who frequently live with all the opulence of their screen counterparts. Operating their own fleets of fast, radar-equipped dhows, motorboats and trucks, they bring in gold, jewels, liquor and such luxury items as TV sets and hi-fi equipment for the benefit of a small elite of conspicuous consumers. They spirit out silver, Hindi movies (frequently financed by smugglers), which are much...
...number of people overall who are involved in smuggling, down to ped dling the contraband, probably runs into the tens of thousands. But the government hopes to break the back of the racket by taking the gang bosses out of circulation. Said Prime Minister Gandhi last week: "Nobody, however big and influential, will be spared if he is found involved in smuggling or hoarding...
...frustrating. Last week a gang of kids slashed about 40 sets of tires and the police didn't respond. There's still a lot of vandalism and crime here, but now the police aren't paying any attention to us," he said...
...spectacle of a genuinely close relationship between Paris and Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well as Paris and the powerful French farm lobby-by rejecting a previously agreed upon 5% hike in Common Market farm prices. Nonetheless, there...
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