Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straight into another. The ailing airline (1984 revenues: $3.68 billion), which has not shown a profit since 1980, grounded most of its U.S. flights after some 5,700 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground workers walked off the job Thursday shortly after midnight. The strike by members of the Transport Workers Union, which also sharply curtailed Pan Am's overseas operations, began less than 48 hours after the carrier had agreed to a new contract with its nearly 1,500 pilots...
...luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas, on charges of conspiring to transport undeclared currency...
...Drug Enforcement Administration believes it was in the mid-1970s that Suarez first realized the fabulous profits that could be made from coca. As an expert pilot with a fleet of planes, acquired to transport beef from his isolated ranches, he was able, so the story goes, to become a long- distance middleman between Bolivian coca growers and Colombian buyers, shipping the leaves to processing plants...
...coqueros to use their country as a transshipment point. In addition, a few corrupt Panamanian bankers have permitted the Colombians to take advantage of the strictest banking secrecy laws in the hemisphere by laundering drug dollars. Last June U.S. customs agents in Miami discovered that a DC-8 jet transport, owned by Inair, at the time Panama's largest air cargo company, was carrying more than a ton of coke, stuffed in freezers, neatly packaged in kilo-size parcels and specially coded for efficient delivery in the U.S. "They had been shipping the Colombians' coke for them for some time...
...million and enough to process around 200,000 kilos of cocaine. Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that nobody but Melo could have been...