Beagles Track Contraband Food At LAX Airport
National Geographic notes four beagles used by the U S Department of Agriculture to sniff for contraband fruit and meat at airports. Bucky and handler Jim Webber signal quarantines as the program expands from LA and San Francisco to the East Coast and beyond.
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National Geographic Society
Bucky
Los Angeles International Airport
Beagles
Washington
U.S. Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Mike Simon
United States
Webber
Simon
Paraguay Drugs Tie To Paraguayan Military Officials
U S officials say a Paraguay chemical seizure used to make cocaine links senior military officers to drug trafficking. Paraguay refuses destruction and meeting requests, while investigations note a general’s business ties to traffickers and foreign police corroborate European purchases.
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New York Times
Washington
Paraguay
United States
U.S
South America
Alfredo Stroessner
Brazil
Izhevsk to be renamed for late Defense Minister Ustinov
Tass reports Izhevsk the capital of Udmurtia will be renamed in honor of Dmitri Ustinov. The city, founded in 1760 with a 1972 population of 456000, lies 620 miles east of Moscow in central Russia.
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Udmurt Autonomous Socialist Republic
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Rybinsk
Yuri Andropov
Kremlin
Russia
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