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...right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna, the security chief of Avianca Airlines, because he had the temerity to bust a 440-lb. shipment of coke hidden in the tires of a 747 jetliner bound for Miami. U.S. officials are concerned that drugs may provoke enough social unrest to lead to civil war and revolution. In Mexico official corruption tied to drug dealing threatens to destabilize America's southern neighbor...
...have boomed. "The growth (in the cut- flower industry) has brought new pest potential," says J.F.K.'s insect identifier Doug Odermatt. "Every new variety has its own insects." In fiscal year 1985, Customs inspectors nationwide recorded some 30,000 "insect interceptions" -- evidence of one or more pests in a shipment -- nearly double the rate of ten years...
...March vote, many House Democrats had tired of Nicaragua's intransigence in the slow-moving Contadora peace talks. They were also angered by a Sandinista attack on a contra camp in neighboring Honduras. The Administration early in June disclosed that the Soviet Union had made a direct military shipment to Nicaragua, and in a speech last Tuesday the President starkly portrayed the contras as the only force standing between the U.S. and a "Soviet military beachhead" in North America...
ITALY. Border patrols halted 32 freight cars loaded with cattle, sheep and horses from Poland and Austria for nearly a week before forcing them to return. Worried inspectors found abnormally high levels of radiation in many of the 908 animals in the shipment. Italy later banned imports of meat, livestock and vegetables from most of Eastern Europe...
...they could expect such people to live together in the same Yard and same dormitories unless they found a way to keep them in. They had tried and failed with fences, but now they had a better idea. The next day, they brought in the first shipment of loud, tone-deaf street musicians, and let them loose in front of Johnson Gate...