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...missionaries. Assume, further, that the pilot had demanded $500,000 to fly the risky mission, and that the plane itself had cost the narco-traffickers another half million. That million-dollar loss in the failed mission still amounted to less than 10 percent of the street value of the shipment. And that's plenty of incentive for the traffickers to keep finding more and more ingenious ways of getting their wares to market. With rewards that high, there'll never be any shortage of young men in the impoverished barrios of Latin America willing to risk life and liberty...
...Nuclear Train Still on Track A train carrying 60 tons of radioactive waste from a reprocessing plant in northern France to a nuclear storage facility in Gorleben, Germany, was held up for two days as thousands of anti-nuclear protesters clashed with police in an effort to stop the shipment. The protests ended early Friday when the six waste containers were delivered to the Gorleben dump...
...disease to cattle; some of the sheep were then sent to a slaughterhouse about 170 km east, while others were bought by a farm in Herefordshire, some 200 km north, causing one more outbreak. Still another batch went 300 km northeast to a market in Northampton. Cleave packed a shipment of 348 sheep off to the British Channel port of Dover, where they were carried to Germany on a livestock ferry...
...corporal, who takes the cash and laboriously counts it. "Next week," Joe says, accepting a Carlsberg from the colonel, who is now smiling, "I'll be back. I want about 20 or 30 AKs and maybe also some M-16s. We can move the pistols in the same shipment...
...July 1951, the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction ended its distribution efforts. The last shipment of books arrived at Harvard in mid-August. The next year, the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction was disbanded...