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...Viet Nam War. Since then, 660 Americans of military age have applied for permission to live in Sweden. It is not automatically granted; the standards for acceptance set up by the Swedish government stipulate that the dodgers and deserters must demonstrate that they were very probably in line for shipment to Indochina. As a statement from the Swedish chapter of Amnesty International carefully points out: "We have helped draft resisters and deserters in a humanitarian way if they have been destitute. That's all. We haven't mixed in policy matters...
...More than 1,000 different customs, credit, insurance and other documents are in use in the U.S. >An average overseas shipment requires more than 360 copies of 46 separate documents...
Cisco (Kris Kristofferson) kept money in his jeans for a while by dealing dope, but he quit after getting busted twice. His arresting officer (Gene Hackman) visits him one day with a proposition. The cop is in need of money fast. He has got hold of a shipment of high-quality grass and wants Cisco to deal it. Then maybe he will shade his testimony on the two busts to Cisco's advantage. Cisco loads the stash into his guitar case and hits the street...
...customs forms; he was arrested as he waited on the pier. De Louette claimed that he had been a spy with the SDECE. After being fired, he needed money badly, and accepted an offer to earn $60,000 for shipping the heroin. The man who set up the shipment, De Louette said, was one Colonel Paul Fournier, until recently the official in charge of French espionage activities in North America...
...Fournier (the name is an alias) recruited him to smuggle the heroin last December. Using money given to him by Fournier, De Louette bought the camper, then drove to Pontchartrain, outside Paris. There another man delivered the heroin and helped hide it inside the car. De Louette arranged for shipment of the car and flew to New York. After his arrest, he asked for help from a staff member of the French consulate. De Louette did so, he said, because Fournier had given him the name for use as a contact in the event he was caught by American police...