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...favorite villains in Hindi movies is the smuggler king who, like Dr. No, runs his crooked empire from a posh suite crammed with electronic marvels, secret panels designed for quick getaways and strong rooms filled with gold and jewels. Invariably, he drinks the finest Scotch, drives a fast foreign car and has a passionate, sloe-eyed mistress. The Indian government has decided that the stereotype is a little too true to be good...
...with a growing search for alternatives to jail. Judge Sepe, 47, has become Miami's foremost proponent of what might be called creative punishment. Rather than hand down penalties that fit the crime, Sepe tries to set probation terms that may prevent continued offenses. Thus a young marijuana smuggler was ordered to go back to college, get a job, report his grades to the court and write a paper on whether marijuana has harmful effects. A youth convicted of disorderly conduct and violently resisting arrest was required to teach a jail inmate how to read. When a cleanup...
Stowaway Vans. No one knows for certain, but current estimates are that 50 to 100 men arrive every day. It is no easy trip. Often the mojados cross the border on their own and meet up with a smuggler on the other side. Then, for fees as high as $400 each, they are driven the 1,400 miles to Chicago. They hide out on the illegal journey in the smugglers' cars, trucks and vans, sometimes stowing away in cardboard boxes or disappearing behind loads of watermelons and sacks of potatoes. One smuggler tucked his stowaways in his trunk...
...source of my morning's excitement was on page 50. Or rather, on the bottom of page 50--unprominently placed. It was a small item, right next to a "Let's Go Patriots" blurb sponsored by Old Smuggler Scotch...
...villa is also the home of the or ganization's leader, a hefty adventurer whose Swiss passport bears the name of Hans Lenzlinger, but who is more widely known as "the People-Smuggler of Zurich." Now 44, Lenzlinger used to be a big-game hunter in Africa and a trader in animal skins. Then he opened a massage parlor in Zurich in the late '60s. After the parlor ran afoul of the vice squad, he switched to the business of selling freedom. In two years, he claims, he has helped 152 East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Bulgarians flee...