Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Record Arrests. According to John T. Cusack, chief U.S. narcotics agent in Europe, it was the largest single haul ever made of U.S.-bound hashish. American agents had been closely on the trail of this particular drug ring for several months. In a second coup, U.S. agents two weeks ago helped to break up the largest smuggling operation on record. Acting on American-supplied information, French and Swiss agents arrested two of the ring's three members in Nice and Geneva. Since 1965 the smugglers had slipped an estimated $500 million a year in heroin into...
...circuitry and discovering diseased crops. It has even trapped smugglers. Equipped with a thermograph, border police in one Middle Eastern country found unusual heat coming from one area of a water-tank truck. An immediate inspection revealed that part of the cargo was indeed hot; it was a huge haul of hashish...
...that neither came from the missing plane. The Soviets, obviously distressed at the loss of an expensive piece of strategic equipment, rushed eight Tu-95 reconnaissance bombers into the area to join the search. The AN-22, which made its debut in experimental form in 1965, was developed to haul heavy equipment to frontier areas. Until the U.S. C-5A was introduced in 1968, it held the world record for lifting off air cargo...
Last winter and spring, the French Maoists firmly established themselves on the outer fringes of the lunatic left with a series of riots, bomb attacks and a daring caviar and foie gras heist in broad daylight at Fauchon, the epicures' haul grocery of Paris. Next, one of their leaders, Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert...
...that limited score, the Cambodian venture was indeed a success. In eight weeks of concentrated scrounging, U.S. troops hauled off or destroyed mountains of painstakingly hidden Communist supplies. Estimates of the haul range up to 50% of the Communists' entire stockpile in eastern Cambodia...