A large proportion of the 400 people apprehended each day and usually released—have crossed, or tried to cross, before.Thousands continue to climb into the backs of the trucks that carry the world's trade across borders, to the fury of the International Road Transport Union, whose members pay fines or even go to jail when their unwanted cargo is discovered.
Michael L. Katzev, an archaeologist who combined luck, scholarship and eight years of meticulous toil to raise, preserve and interpret one of the oldest and most intact seagoing cargo vessels ever discovered, died on Sept. 8 at his home in Southport, Me.
A33 OBITUARIES A38-39 Micharchaeologist An archaeologist who spent eight years of meticulous toil to raise, preserve and interpret one of the oldest and most intact seagoing cargo vessels ever discovered, he was 62. A39 Arsacio Vanegas A popular wrestler in the 1950's who helped train Fidel Castro's revolutionaries, he was 79.
But when the Gabonese authorities discovered the cargo, they refused the vessel permission to dock.
Not including the bottle Mr. Ekstrom swigged from, the divers soon discovered a cargo that numbered 172 bottles of Champagne.
But having discovered the cargo, they let it go after Yemen declared the missile shipments legal under international law.
Officials said they discovered the cargo after a dog alerted them to the contents in the bed of a Chinese driver's seemingly empty truck.
The boarding party arrested all aboard and discovered a cargo of cold war-era antiaircraft radar components and other antiquated armaments buried beneath more than 200,000 bags of Cuban brown sugar.
"I want to make that 100percentt," he said, describing an incident in which he said Italian authorities recently discovered a cargo container that held a suspected terrorist with a laptop computer and a mobile telephone.
Renamed Péruvier, the ship's engines broke down and she had to be towed to her destination where part of her cargo of coal was discovered to be on fire during her maiden voyage as a merchant vessel in 1920.
