Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supported largely by private contributions from the U.S., where special church collections, newspaper ads, mail-in campaigns and benefits have reaped millions for Cambodian relief. Says Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee: "This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents and cans of tuna fish. This is a crisis of staggering magnitude." Interagency cooperation is the official policy in the camps. Nonetheless there is competition among agencies to be the first on the scene where refugees cross at a new point along the border...
...while Barry described International Seafoods as a "non-profit venture" which is "coincidentally owned by church members," Moon workers at International Seafoods were "donating" bluefin tuna to the Japanese branch of the church, which in turn sold the tuna in Tokyo at prices up to $3.50 per pound (prime price in the Boston area is $2 per pound). One church spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sullivan in 1977 that as an example the Unification Church could make $1650 for each 500-pound tuna it sold in Tokyo by eliminating the normal overhead costs of shipping and selling tuna...
...commands the awe, if not exactly the envy, of the rest of Europe. Another is an unfailing respect for the sacrosanct mid-August "Ferragosto" vacation, when millions of Italians, especially the politicians, seek a respite from the inconclusive politicking of Rome and leap to the seashore like cats onto tuna...
Euell Gibbons chows down at Conscious Cookery behind Coolidge Bank, where the Sikhs serve up wholesome health food on the You-Can't-Fool-Mother-Nature principle. Especially good are the avocado and alfalfa sprouts sandwich, and the generous salads. In the same area, Sails serves tuna with good taste Charlie. At Grendel's next door, Hrothgar isn't welcome, but Beowulf comes anyway, for the chocolate fondue and salad...
Despite its scale, the Black Tuna roundup lacked the melodrama of many narcotics crackdowns. The main action took place in hushed financial offices and on a silent computer terminal screen, as a task force of some 30 DEA and FBI agents, aided by two undercover informants, traced the enormous sums of money generated by the drug running. Dubbed Operation Banco, the investigation scrutinized thousands of financial transactions, hunting for suspicious deposits and investments and then following the funds as they were laundered and transferred to Florida banks...