Yasir Arafat again denied any knowledge of the smuggling attempt.

The smuggling attempt is in direct violation of all existing agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.

The United States expressed disapproval today of the apparent smuggling attempt.

"There has not been a successful smuggling attempt since the beginning of the gulf crisis because these civilians don't know their way through the desert like the Bedouins."

When the smuggling attempt was discovered, the metal bars became the property of the Customs Service.

'As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious.'

'The fact that my boat was used in this smuggling attempt is going to take some living down.'

The authorities called it a bungled smuggling attempt.

During the reporting period, the Djiboutian military regularly buried the remains of shipwrecked migrants who drowned after failed smuggling attempts.

The Iraqis continued undaunted on another prototype super- gun, but their smuggling attempts were clumsy.