Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Transnuklear, a West German nuclear-waste transport firm, first won notoriety last spring when German authorities started unraveling a scheme in which the firm had smuggled 2,438 barrels of falsely labeled nuclear waste into the country. Last week the firm's name hit the headlines again when a tipster alleged that Transnuklear had shipped fissionable nuclear material from the Nuclear Energy Research Center in Mol, Belgium, to Pakistan and Libya. If true, the action violated an international accord that prohibits the export of materials for making nuclear weapons. More important, the radioactive material would aid Pakistan's advanced efforts...
...ships, for example, are registered in Panama and Liberia. Most liners carry such flags of convenience for economic reasons: the companies can avoid U.S. corporate taxes and hire low-paid foreign crews. That strategy has its drawbacks. Under an 1886 federal law, foreign vessels are not permitted to transport people between ports in the U.S. A foreign ship that sails from New York City, for example, cannot pick up passengers in Miami en route to the Caribbean. This regulation has kept most foreign-flag firms out of Hawaii, where U.S.-registered lines are just beginning to take greater advantage...
...shark-infested waters, but no more. It was the worst peacetime maritime disaster of the century, exceeding the record of the Titanic, which went down in 1912 with some 1,500 on board. The worst shipping calamity occurred during World War II, when a Soviet submarine torpedoed the Nazi transport Wilhelm Gustloff, killing an estimated 7,700. While more than 1,600 people, including eleven crewmen from the Victor, were presumed dead in last week's accident, the actual count was almost certainly higher. The names of as many as 1,000 children may not have been included...
...stamps bearing his portrait. In the end Rumkowski came to believe he was the savior of his people, who nevertheless were shipped to the camps when the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. According to one version of + Rumkowski's fate, he demanded and got a special car to transport him and his family to Auschwitz, where, to his surprise, his reign ended in the gas chamber...
...officials estimate that there is now enough food committed to Ethiopia to last until spring, but whether it gets out of the warehouses and to the hungry depends heavily on the available transportation. Relief officials estimate they need nearly 300 additional trucks to haul food from distribution centers to rural areas, but the Mengistu regime has thus far provided only 100. So welfare officials are falling back on a vastly expensive airlift. It is notable that the Soviets, who sell Mengistu most of his weapons, have sent very little in the way of either food or transport...