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                  ПОВОЛЖСКАЯ  АКАДЕМИЯ  ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ  СЛУЖБЫ                                                                                                        Кафедра иностранных языков.                                             ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ                                     Предмет: английский язык                                                 тема :                                               “THE PEOPLE TRADE”

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                                                                                               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."          It was just before midnight, Sunday, June 18, the hottest day of the year, when the European Pathway pulled into Doverunder the city's landmark chalk cliffs. Customs officials were waiting for the Mercedes truck as it trundled off the ferry. They told the driver to back into Bay 9 of the inspection shed. Opening the big doors to the airtight refrigeration container. they first came across pallets of crated tomatoes. Muscling the tomatoes aside, the officers found one body. Then they found another body, and then another and another. In all, they found 54 dead men, four dead women and two traumatized men clinging to life - all of them young Chinese, probably from Fujian province, who had been headed to Britain in search of jobs. "I will never forget the sight that greeted us when we opened the back