The customs director asked the strikers to come back to work, promising to consider their demands.
The brother of another leader's husband got the coveted job of customs director.
The Dominican government was refusing to honor that contract, after Miguel Cocco, then the Dominican customs director, had long said the deal was an exorbitant giveaway to the company.
"Inside the wood there were secret compartments that were filled with elephant tusks," said a customs director, Azis Yaacub, according to Agence France-Presse.
The heroin, concealed inside 17,500 small grease cans packed into a large container sent from Karachi, was found Friday at a customs terminal in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, said Mali Piyasena, a customs director.
Bill Willard, custom analysis director for Media Metrix in Atlanta, identified some Web sites, for newer dot-coms, that registered relatively small gains in visitors, though the percentage increases were high.
"At the time, I heard a big explosion and saw American bodies were lying on the ground bleeding," said Mohammed Shoib, the customs office's director of control.
"Jewelry is a reflection of Peranakans' beliefs and lifestyles, and it gives an insight into their rituals and customs," said Kenson Kwok, director of the Asian Civilisations Museum here.
"It's the difference between making a creative decision immediately and waiting more than eight hours longer, when you realize how often tapes used to get bogged down in customs," says Jon Furguy, director of Sohonet in London.
"The difference would be something like the signature of the regional director of customs of Chicago compared to the rubber stamps that say only 'U.S. Customs.' " In southern Mesopotamia at this time, an expanding population and increased food production from irrigation were changing the social landscape even more drastically.
