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According to the Government's indictment against Smalley, the Englishman conspired to ship 100 vintage 50-ton tanks to Iran by using phony "end user's certificates," which gave the United Arab Emirates as the delivery site. He allegedly planned to buy the tanks from an Army depot in Anniston, Ala. He is also charged with conspiring to ship 8,300 antitank missiles to Iraq...
...object of the international concern was a spacecraft innocuously dubbed Cosmos 1402. Launched last August, it is a five-ton bundle of electronics, including a powerful radar used by the Soviets to track U.S. naval vessels. In 1978 a similar satellite, Cosmos 954, scattered radioactive fragments over Canada's Northwest Territories. Though no one was killed or injured, the embarrassed Soviets paid Canada $3 million to help defray the cost of the difficult cleanup...
...indifference (Hula's father was Polish, Cruz's a Portuguese seaman). Now Cruz, a New York mobster, needs Hula's help, offers him half a million dollars and threatens to destroy his business if he refuses. Hula does not. Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this cache will approach Miami and run aground on a reef. Hula will be called by the port authorities, who trust him, to salvage the wreck and tow it in. The coke will be removed. Then Cruz...
...World (see ESSAY). Demand for the developing nations' products, mainly raw materials, slumped. As a consequence, between 1980 and today, world commodity prices, excluding oil, have fallen by 35% to the lowest real levels in three decades. Sugar, a principal Brazilian export, dropped from $495 to $120 per ton; Zambia's copper price plunged from 950 per Ib. to 690. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere put it plainly: to buy a seven-ton truck in 1981, his country had to produce four times as much cotton, or three times as much coffee, or ten tunes as much...
...built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine had been in Pakistan, where it was used to dig a passage between the Indus and Jhelum rivers; it had to be broken down into...