World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Three Sentenced for Nuclear Smuggling
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Two Austrians and a Pole were sentenced in Berlin for trying to sell smuggled radioactive uranium, cesium and plutonium. The three received terms of one year to 18 months. It was the first time a German court had sentenced anyone for nuclear smuggling since a series of cases in Western Europe last year in which smugglers were caught peddling wares suspected of coming from the former Soviet Bloc.
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