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Despite these efforts, there was no doubt that Italy had suffered a traumatic blow. In Denmark, where a 6,613-gal. shipment of cheap Italian vermouth was found to contain dangerous amounts of methyl alcohol, officials issued a ban on all Italian wines. West Germany imposed border controls requiring Italian wine imports to be cleared by government chemists. And in France, the government seized 4.4 million gal. of suspect wine and dumped at least 1.3 million gal. Clearly, it would be a long time before the world's consumers fully recovered their confidence in one of Italy's best-known...
...refugees from El Salvador, Haiti, and Guatemala. But since then, the thrust of the local sanctuary movement has shifted to several community groups quietly working to keep the idea alive in Cambridge: from the year-long effort to harbor a refugee in a local church to this week's shipment of supplies to a university in El Salvador...
Most cocaine arrives in the U.S. aboard private aircraft, which the smugglers consider expendable. Even a $450,000 Cessna twin-engine plane costs far less than the millions of dollars of cocaine it can carry. The latest stunt among cocaine pilots has been to air-drop a shipment of cocaine, then put the aircraft on automatic pilot and bail out. One pilot laden down with 79 lbs. of cocaine was killed last September in Tennessee when his parachute failed...
...estimated 18% of coke shipments arrive on commercial airlines. Last month a DEA official revealed that a grand jury was preparing criminal indictments against as many as 50 Eastern Air Lines workers, mostly baggage handlers, who allegedly had smuggled a billion dollars' worth of cocaine into Miami in the cargo bellies of jets. Customs officers routinely find large caches of cocaine aboard flights from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national...
...keep them in stock," said a staff assistant at the Technology Products Center. The center sold its first shipment of 100 machines in only two weeks, with demand "way beyond what I predicted it to be," said Dianne M. Terp, manager of marketing and new business development at the center...