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Officials Board Suspected Slave Ship

NPR
Published April 17, 2001 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on the ship suspected of carrying scores of child slaves from the West African country of Benin. Early today officials boarded the ship, but found no sign of the children.

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