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The People Trade - (реферат)

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    ПОВОЛЖСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ СЛУЖБЫ
    Кафедра иностранных языков.
    ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ
    Предмет: английский язык
    тема :
    “THE PEOPLE TRADE”
    Выполнил : студент 2-го курса
    208 группы очного отделения
    специальности 0211 Чернов Вадим Александрович
    Проверил: Cалеева Л. П.
    г. САРАТОВ 2000

Статья из журнала NEWSWEEK JULY 3, 2000 : "THE PEOPLE TRADE".

    "THE PEOPLE TRADE".
    Special report.

Europe needs workers: immigrants want a better life. Inside the shadowy - and dangerous - world of human smuggling.

Indide the customs office in Dover, England, a fax machine chirruped. Out came a message from the European Pathway, a P&O Stena Line ferry that was churning across the channel from Zeebrugge, Belgium. The crew was dutifully alerting British authorities to a suspicious truck, a big white Mercedes-Benz tractor hauling a refrigerator unit supposedly filled with tomatoes. One of the last to board the ferry, the truck bore the name Van Der Spek TRANSPORT. The name of the firm (it would later emerge that the company was only four days old ) triggered misgivings - perhaps because it was close, but not identical, to that of an established Dutch trucking company. The track, said a British customs spokesman, "fit the profile of one that could be used to smuggle cigarettes, drugs or contraband.... It was a hunch. "

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