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...bulky if you move it, traceable if you bank it, and it mildews if you bury it." Which may explain why Colombians have been reported buying up jewels -- principally diamonds -- in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. U.S. agents don't think these buyers are Christmas shopping. "You can transport millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in your back pocket," says an investigator. Furthermore, diamonds don't rot when stored in the underground caches favored by Colombian dons...
...only battle in the gulf so far has been against distance. It is proving to be a tough one. Despite the $2.5 trillion spent on defense over the past decade, the U.S. lacks enough cargo planes and ships to deliver its armed forces to trouble spots around the globe. Transport planes like the C- 141 Starlifter and C-5A Galaxy are still the workhorses of the Air Force, but they are aging, and their production lines have long been closed. The next-generation airlifter, the C-17, has encountered repeated delays in nine years of development...
...both proposals have introduced two ballot initiatives of their own. Food growers and agribusinesses are pushing a measure called CAREFUL, which they say would achieve the same level of food safety as Big Green through less drastic means. Dubbed Big Brown by its critics, the proposal would outlaw the transport of food in vehicles also used to carry hazardous substances and set up a $25 million research program to develop alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which...
When it was proposed in 1963, the supersonic transport was touted as an air traveler's dream. Flying at 1,782 m.p.h., it could cross the Atlantic in less than three hours. But in 1971, after $1.2 billion had been spent, the U.S. gave in to swelling environmental and economic criticism and killed the project. The only full-scale prototype of the 288-ft.-long SST was sold to an aircraft museum in Kissimmee...
...best to spend the windfall: suggestions range from funding Britain's flagging social services to protecting the environment. But, warns David Greenwood, director of the Center for Defense Studies at the University of Aberdeen, "it's not a political gold mine for the Health Minister or the Transport Minister to put his hand in now." Inflation and modernization programs could gobble up most of the money before a single pound gets spent...