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...task is formidable: smuggling ploys are varied and ingenious. U.S. Customs officials have found live Mexican wild parrots hidden inside hollow watermelons and one rare bird taped to a woman's thigh. In Elaine, Wash., U.S. officers arrested two travelers who had crossed the Canadian border with four gyrfalcons concealed in the wheel well of their car trunk. To make matters even more complex, drug smugglers have entered the wildlife export game. Officials are investigating one report that a cargo of 80 parrots sent from Bolivia to The Netherlands included up to two dozen dead birds that were stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Adventures in the Skin Trade | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

Hernu, who had just decorated each of the tricolor-draped caskets of the 17th Paratroop Regiment, was startled, but escaped injury; his assailant, a Toulouse nightclub bouncer named Lionel Rehal, 26, was wounded in the thigh by one of the shots fired at him. While officials considered what, if any, charges to lodge against Rehal, members of his family attributed his act to anguish over the death of his brother Laurent, 19. But they also complained, as did relatives of the other dead paratroopers, that the government had been less than forthcoming in explaining the casualties. Hernu originally announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hitting Home | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...wounded who sealed things with an oh-so-important insurance goal with just 6:02 remaining. Senior center Phil Falcone, recently returned after two months in the stands because of a bruised thigh, backhanded the puck just inside the right post to give Harvard the breathing room it needed. The score had been 2-1 for almost half the game...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Nab Third Straight Ivy Title | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...reason for the detachable keyboard is so you can lie back and get comfortable instead of hunching over a desk. But with the mouse you have to get up and move it on the desk. I guess you can run it up and down on your thigh, but after a while it might become very endearing," he adds...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: The Apple of Everyone's Eye | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...changed, as two recuperated skaters return to the Crimson lineup tonight. Senior cetner Phil Falcone, who led the team in scoring until he bruised his thigh in Czechoslovakia, will play his first game of the month and a half old year. Fellow center Tim McMahon also returns tonight, back from a hyperextended knee...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Outstanding Debt | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

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