Word: shipments
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Although ValuJet is not authorized to carry hazardous materials, the cargo manifest noted that this particular five-box shipment, destined for the company's Atlanta headquarters, was empty. In fact, there may have been a misunderstanding--what National Transportation Safety Board investigator Greg Feith has called "a terminology problem"--and possibly a fatal one: the canisters may not all have been empty; they may have merely exceeded their shelf life. Though no generators have yet been found, pieces of the salvaged wreckage, including a singed cockpit life preserver and two sooty steps from near the cockpit, indicate there...
Last week it happened again. The problem centered once more on a shipment of macaques sent by the same Philippine supplier. One monkey from the shipment was discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...
WASHINGTON: President Clinton dispatched a planeload of bomb detection equipment and experts to Israel Tuesday, showing his commitment to preserving the Mideast peace process. Officials would not reveal the contents of the shipment other than to say it included communications equipment aimed at helping Israel coordinate its anti-terrorist efforts with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "Clinton wants very badly to support the peace process, but the question is what can he do," TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says. "Much like the Patriot missiles in the Gulf War, this equipment will help make Israel more secure ." However, the effectiveness of this...
...exportation of cocaine to the mainland from the Caribbean," says Felix Jimenez, who heads the DEA's office there. The island's status as a U.S. commonwealth offers traffickers an extraordinary advantage, since passengers and cargo undergo only perfunctory customs checks to enter the U.S. mainland. Once a shipment of cocaine is smuggled onto the island, it can easily be relayed to American cities...
...that an army of civilians, contracted privately, has been deployed to augment the G.I.s. Brown & Root Inc., a Houston engineering firm, will supervise Balkan workers on projects like building pipelines and sewerage systems and is prepared to undertake the solemn task of readying the bodies of U.S. fatalities for shipment home. The Army's increasing dependence on civilian help is leading penny pinchers to wonder whether it is still necessary to budget $7 billion annually for the 300,000 reservists already trained and paid to do those jobs. It's all good for Brown & Root, which has pocketed around...