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- <text id=90TT1373>
- <title>
- May 28, 1990: American Notes:The Border
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- THE BORDER
- Arizona Pipeline
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Law-enforcement officers often speak of a narcotics pipeline
- across the American border, but little did they know how much
- truth there was in the metaphor. Last week astonished U.S.
- Customs agents unearthed an elaborate tunnel that began in the
- Mexican town of Agua Prieta and emerged 200 ft. away in
- Douglas, Ariz. Five ft. high and 4 ft. wide, the subterranean
- pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage
- compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally
- professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official.
- Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last
- February, when a drug shipment they were tracking seemed to
- mysteriously disappear. Two weeks ago, they seized 2,258 lbs.
- of cocaine, valued at more than $100 million, that had come
- through the Arizona pipeline.
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- </body>
- </article>
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