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Among the ironies in this wave of racial hostility is that the birthrate in major West European countries like Italy, Germany and France is flat. A government-funded study published in France last month suggested the country may be forced to import more immigrant workers to fill empty jobs after the year...
...that Saddam has ample food to feed his people. Since March 22, the Security Council's sanctions committee has received notice of exporters' intentions to ship more than 2 million tons of food to Iraq -- nearly one ton for every nine Iraqis. In addition, Baghdad has been permitted to import generators, medical supplies, water pumps and water-treatment systems...
...trade restrictions seem to have had little economic impact. The U.S. and other nations continued to import vital raw materials, such as chromium and platinum, for which South Africa is the major world source. The products that the West would not buy, chiefly coal and fruit, found new markets in Asia, the Middle East and, of all places, black Africa. Nearly every African country south of the Sahara trades with Pretoria...
...1970s, while Medellin's cocaine cowboys were monopolizing drug sales in Miami, Santacruz was sewing up Manhattan. Today the DEA estimates that Santacruz, the Orjuela Caballero brothers and the Pacho Herrera organization import 4 of every 5 grams of cocaine sold on the streets of New York City. From that base, Cali operatives have fanned out across the U.S. and deep into Mexico. The Rodriguez Orejuelas are generally considered partners in Santacruz ventures, but they sometimes appear to operate independently. Their cousins, the Orjuela Caballero brothers, are also major dealers in Los Angeles. DEA agents say the Urdinola brothers work...
Leto Lopez looked no different from his Westchester County neighbors: he wore conservative suits, lived in a $775,000 colonial house and drove an Acura Legend. He opened a public fax service to mix his drug messages with thousands of others dispatched by honest customers. He set up an import business and actually imported South American furniture so that the U.S. Customs Service would think he was a legitimate businessman...