Word: smugglerous
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Early in the novel, for example, the story chronicles the misfortunes that result when Timothy Bright, a clueless member of a historically rich and influential family is persuaded by a violent-tempered drug smuggler that if he doesn't cooperate in an illegal transaction he will be turned into "piggy-chops." Obsessed with this image of flayed pig, Timothy steals money from his invalid aunt and invades his uncle-in-law's home. Soon, as a result of the desire of an unsympathetic cousin to be rid of him, Timothy finds himself speeding down the highway on a motorcycle under...
...role as commander-in-chief. But Kabila will not be alone at the top. On hand at the swearing-in were the presidents of Angola, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, whose support made Kabila's revolution possible and who certainly have a say in how the diminutive ex-smuggler runs Africa's largest country. "Those four are the best guarantee that Kabila will not become another Mobutu," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "They invested a lot in Mobutu's fall, and have too much to gain from a prosperous neighbor. They'll make sure Kabila doesn't blow...
...picture in yesterdays papers of Vice President Al Gore '69 with the drug smuggler Jorge Cabrera is one of the most sickening to be printed in recent years. While Gore provides a favorable grin, the fat and smug Cabrera laughs uncontrollably at the big joke that our national leadership has become...
...trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says David Traill, a classicist at the University of California at Davis and author of a 1995 biography of Schliemann. The man was also a war profiteer, a dabbler in black markets and a smuggler, whose wheelings and dealings have three nations squabbling more than a century after his death. Schliemann did eventually find the lost city of Troy, near the Turkish coast, but he dug right through the layers corresponding to the Homeric period and largely destroyed them. The Troy he found...
...years ago, his children grown, Cho began studying how to escape. He befriended a Chinese smuggler and on the night of Oct. 3 stole to the banks of the Yalu River, where he met the smuggler and his well-hidden boat. A driving rain cloaked their escape from the numerous watchtowers and patrols, and in 10 silent minutes they rowed across to China. There he made his way to the port city of Dalian, where he found another Chinese smuggler, who transported him to South Korean authorities...