Byline: David Horowitz

In some ways, it's like Prohibition days, with rum runners putting into port at night in boats loaded with illegal booze; trucks crossing the border with federal agents in pursuit; smugglers risking jail for the huge profits in contraband. But it isn't liquor these days, or even untaxed cigarettes. It's CFC-12, a chloroflourocarbon refrigerant, better known as freon. It's the gas that makes refrigerators and air conditioners work - or did until 1994.

Ten thousand tons of illegal freon enter this country every year in 12-ounce cans, ...

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