Customs Service Proposes Shooting Down Aircraft to Prevent Drug Smuggling

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Monday, February 1, 1988

Author:

Dan Cohen

Volume:

4

Issue:

2

Abstract:

United States Customs Commissioner William von Raab has proposed granting authority to the Customs Service and Coast Guard to use force in compelling aircraft suspected of drug smuggling to land at designated sites.