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Perhaps the best thing to happen to Indianapolis recently was the defection of professional football's Baltimore Colts last March. Under cover of night, Colts Owner Robert Irsay had his team's equipment piled into a convoy of moving vans (Mayflower movers of Indianapolis) for shipment to the Midwest. Baltimore has filed motions in federal court to block the sale of tickets to Indianapolis Colts games, but this has hardly curtailed the excitement of the Hoosiers over their new National Football League team. Irsay has been hailed as a hero; WELCOME COLTS signs are all over town...
Some 30 Afghan agents took up positions in Saudi Arabia, working for small companies that handled the shipment of cargo to Asia. There they were put in charge of sending out electronic equipment, sewing machines and fertilizers, as well as religious materials going to far-flung Muslims in Malaysia, Indonesia and, of course, Pakistan. To these regular shipments, the Afghans would sometimes add a few cases of arms, specially coded for quick detection by their colleagues. "We began modestly, because we were new to the game," one recruit says. "But as we got the hang of it, we were gradually...
...Israeli delegation and intelligence-gathering center located in the Christian-held area just north of Beirut. The errant Israeli trio gave the Syrians a long-awaited pretext for drawing widespread attention to the unofficial office and for contending anew that the delegation is, in fact, a conduit for the shipment of arms and ammunition to Christian militiamen in Lebanon...
With the Administration's Central American policy in trouble in Congress, senior officials began warning last week that Cuba was planning to increase the shipment of supplies to the estimated 10,000 guerrillas in El Salvador. According to information from within Cuba, they said, the latest arms buildup is in preparation for a major guerrilla offensive this fall, most likely in September. The increase is said to have been accompanied by a stepped-up guerrilla recruitment campaign, intended to raise their forces to about 14,000. The Administration's fear is that the guerrillas are planning a Salvadoran...
...first shipment of several hundred Macintosh computers are expected to arrive within the next fews weeks...