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FBIS3-21245_5
Japan's Nuclear Power Plants Update Shimokita Hanto, Aomori Prefecture
the country.'' At the same time, MITI has launched a substantial expansion of power source regional development policy using the fund from its 1993 budget. Its attraction is the establishment of ``Emergency Subsidy for the Promotion and Establishment of Regional Symbiotic-type Nuclear Power Generation Facility.'' In th...
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Japan's Nuclear Power Plants Update Onagawa Nuclear Plant Two Projects Planned Following Onagawa and Higashidori Projects
fishing industry to the brink of collapse. This factor was directly responsible for our decision to pursue the plan for nuclear power development. For local residents, construction at Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant site ultimately meant the revitalization of the region. How Japan is going to secure energy is an extremely ...
FBIS3-21249_0
Plasma Etching Large Aperture Plasma Etching
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Article by Katsuo Katayama] [Text] Introduction As VLSI technology achieves a greater degree of miniaturization and high-density capabilities, users increasingly are demanding improved process technology and equipment which will enhance miniaturization process performance and will i...
FBIS3-21265_21
Designing, Searching for New Materials
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FBIS3-21274_0
Writer Accuses `Ruling Dictatorship' of Nurturing Terrorism
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Article by Dr. Ibrahim Dasuqi Abazah] [Excerpt] President Husni Mubarak is very much interested in stability, and has been keen to call on the national forces to defend stability. His Excellency underlined this call in his recent speech at the Police Academy and described at length th...
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Human Rights Group Report on Prison Deaths [Unattributed article: "Moroccan Organization for Human Rights Publishes Report on Those Who Died While in Government's Custody; More Than 17 Deaths in the Government's Police Stations and Dungeons Because of Mistreatment, Torture; Cases Were Not Properly Investigated"]
such case, nor was it the last. Since then the organization has received several complaints from the families of citizens who died under identical circumstances in police stations, police centers, or in locations that are affiliated with local authorities. The press also featured other similar cases where death had occ...
FBIS3-21279_4
Human Rights Group Report on Prison Deaths [Unattributed article: "Moroccan Organization for Human Rights Publishes Report on Those Who Died While in Government's Custody; More Than 17 Deaths in the Government's Police Stations and Dungeons Because of Mistreatment, Torture; Cases Were Not Properly Investigated"]
the authorities were relying on medical testimony or reports prepared mostly by physicians who are not forensic physicians and unaccompanied by a sanctioned attendance roster. And yet, most of the medical documents that were examined by attorneys or by the organization do not always categorically rule out that violence...
FBIS3-21279_8
Human Rights Group Report on Prison Deaths [Unattributed article: "Moroccan Organization for Human Rights Publishes Report on Those Who Died While in Government's Custody; More Than 17 Deaths in the Government's Police Stations and Dungeons Because of Mistreatment, Torture; Cases Were Not Properly Investigated"]
public authorities, the national office of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights is demanding [the following]: 1. 1. That the Ministry of Justice announce to the public the measures that are being taken by the judicial authorities, and specifically, by the competent district attorneys, on all the issues raised in ...
FBIS3-21299_1
Analysis of Aircraft Industry Reform Program
It went into effect with the Histadrut's signing of the agreement last weekend. The key clauses of the plan provide for worker layoffs with limited compensation to be paid by Mavtakhim, the Histadrut's insurance company. As if the sweeping dismissals were not enough, the workers have stated their willingness to take pa...
FBIS3-21303_0
Libya Prepared To Live Without Its Oil
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Ashraf al-Faqi, in Surt: "Foreign Minister 'Umar al-Muntasir: `Proposals to End Lockerbie Crisis'"] [Text] Mr. 'Umar al-Muntasir, the secretary of the People's Bureau for Foreign Liaison & International Cooperation--the Foreign Minister--has announced new Libyan proposals a...
FBIS3-21311_2
South Asia Policy Ostensibly Unchanged Under Clinton
words, "mediate") the problem if desired by the two sides. The debate over the possible scrapping of the Pressler Amendment is summed up thus: "Another U.S. policy that is likely to provoke regional opposition but remain unchanged is the suspension of U.S. aid to Pakistan. The 1985 Pressler Amendment to U.S. law requir...
FBIS3-21313_3
Unease Over Hiring Lobbyists in United States
for Iraq, Libya, Cuba or North Korea in Washington, or, for that matter, Moscow, in its earlier incarnation. In India's own case, shortly after independence when New Delhi was yet to be regarded as a "Soviet ally" by Washington, nothing that the powerful world personality of Nehru projected could persuade the United St...
FBIS3-21329_1
Plans Implemented for Social Audit of Mass Media
with European and American giants. The aim of the review of cross-media ownership rules is to ensure the survival of domestic TV production companies and strengthen them in their "assault" on rapidly expanding "global media markets." The BBC chief has already started talking of the BBC as "an empire without frontiers."...
FBIS3-21347_3
Economist on Foreign Debt, Strength of Economy
like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. We should also not fail to mention the important fact that inflation rates in our country are still reasonable, compared with many developing nations. The state has participated in stabilizing consumer goods through guiding public expenditures and organizing imports, ...
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Minister on Manufacturing, Investment, Exports
Arabia, which used to import 100 percent of its electrical cables, now exports about 30 percent percent of its electrical cable production? We will gradually set up more industries in order to reach the stage of self-sufficiency in a well-researched and scientific manner. [Al-Qaysi] Electricity still has not reached a ...
FBIS3-21351_2
Economists, Businessmen Discuss 1994 Budget
economic growth declined in the 24 OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] states from 1.5 percent in 1992 to 1.1 percent in 1993; in the United States from 2.4 percent to 1.5 percent; and in Japan from 1.5 percent to 0.5 percent. - Confirm, at the highest official level, the stable value of the na...
FBIS3-21356_7
Study Recommends Small Industry Saudization
and Mexico, as well as the manufacture of automobile components in Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico, Thailand, and India). In summation, this part of international subcontracting leads to an increased dependency on foreign countries, technologically, financially, and commercially, with the accompanying weakening of the ties...
FBIS3-21356_12
Study Recommends Small Industry Saudization
of dates, and storing vegetables. What encourages this is the fact that the small industry profits do not depend upon long-term production, meaning that they can produce some seasonal commodities for local sale. 5. Small industries in the Kingdom play a significant role in procuring and adapting to technology in some s...
FBIS3-21358_0
Germany Restricts Kebir's Political Activity
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by A. Karim: "Rabah Kebir Persona Non Grata in Germany"] [Text] According to a statement issued yesterday in Bonn, Rabah Kebir will be forbidden to engage in any political activity on German soil. The German foreign minister announced that Kebir had made public statements abou...
FBIS3-21365_4
Impact of Structural Adjustment Policy Questioned
percent; those allocated to Health, by 77.1 percent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Table 1 - Increase in Budgets of Social Services (Operations and Investments)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Education (Billion Dirha...
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Impact of Structural Adjustment Policy Questioned
agriculture (although "by eliminating subsidies for fertilizer and seed, it furthered a production cost increase"). Note that the 1994 Finance Law eliminates the PFI [import tax levy] and the value-added tax on fertilizer. As for the processing industry, "it is still handicapped by its low integration level, the uneven...
FBIS3-21367_4
Update on Al-Turabi's Health Head Injury Effects
and that his train of thought is affected if he takes part in a long conversation or in a public event that requires one to stand and concentrate for a long time. Feeling of Exhaustion In a press interview in the wake of the incident, al-Turabi said that he felt exhausted. Moreover, the physician who treated him at Civ...
FBIS3-21367_12
Update on Al-Turabi's Health Head Injury Effects
could produce adverse results and reflect the regime as a regime experiencing void or weakness because of al-Turabi's absence. 'Ali 'Uthman's argument did not convince the NIF's "old generation" who saw that 'Uthman was trying to gain sole control of the decisionmaking and to succeed al-Turabi "even while he is still a...
FBIS3-21373_0
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. Human Rights Critique
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by C. Raja Mohan: "Human Rights Abuses Persist in India: U.S."] [Text] Washington, Feb. 1--In a wide-ranging critique of the Indian law and order agencies, the U.S. State Department has said that "despite extensive constitutional and statutory safeguards, significant human ri...
FBIS3-21373_1
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. Human Rights Critique
women, lax prosecution of dowry deaths and widespread exploitation of indentured, bonded and child labour. The State Department has been presenting these annual reports on human rights violations to the U.S. Congress since 1977. The U.S. Congress has been demanding that the country's foreign and trade policies take int...
FBIS3-21375_1
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. Clinton Letters Questioned
of the Soviet Union and the inherent instability in Russia. South Asia was given a separate existence by the state department. But the inability of the administration to either fill the post of assistant secretary of state for the area or send an envoy to New Delhi reflected the interest Washington has shown in the reg...
FBIS3-21376_0
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. Kenneth Brill Article
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Kenneth C. Brill: "All's Well Between India and U.S."] [Text] Pick up a newspaper these days and it is hard to avoid the impression that Indo-U.S. relations are at a low ebb. In this age of instant communications, even minor events can be blown out of proportion overnight,...
FBIS3-21378_0
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. U.S. `Flipflop' Scored
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "U.S. Sees Reason"] [Text] "My experience in public life suggests that there is far more value to keeping my mouth shut at times than to speaking" was Republican senator, Mr Hank Brown's riposte to Assistant Secretary of State, Ms Robin L. Raphel, during the U.S. senate fo...
FBIS3-21379_0
Reportage, Comment on Relations With U.S. `Strategic Misunderstandings'
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Manoj Joshi] [Text] New Delhi, January 30--For those who were willing to see, there is nothing unique about the denoucement in Indo-American relations. Its basis was the mis-matched set of expectations of the two countries, the so-called "world's largest democracies." Indi...
FBIS3-21388_1
Papers Report Singapore Prime Minister's Visit Remarks to Businessmen
the countries expected to become NIEs, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, over the next two decades are China, India and Vietnam. In case India's economic reforms quickened, it could become a mega-economy such as China and Japan. While urging further opening up of the economy, especially in the banking sector, he felt that ...
FBIS3-21390_11
Papers Report Singapore Prime Minister's Visit Interview with HINDU
a big success in the economic sense and perhaps in the security context also. SAARC has yet to take off. What are the reasons for these two developments? [Goh] I have not done a deep study on SAARC so my observations may be superficial. I think first, the ASEAN has a longer history than SAARC. ASEAN is 27 years [old]. ...
FBIS3-21392_5
Rao, Mukherjee Attend Davos Economic Forum Rao at Closing Session
given moment. While change had to be accepted as a result of deliberate and objective thinking, "at the same time, those who wear the shoe and know where it pinches should have full say in deciding how to mend it." As such, he said, their scheme of change must take full note of contingencies like mass poverty and make ...
FBIS3-21399_0
Rights of AIDS Victims, Other Issues Defined
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Hasan 'Allam: "40 Million AIDS Cases by the Year 2000! Sharp Dispute Among Clergy Over Sick Mothers' Abortions'] [Excerpts] According to the World Health Organization's [WHO] figures, the number of AIDS cases is rising constantly, and in just six years, that is, in the year...
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Rights of AIDS Victims, Other Issues Defined
a healthy spouse to seek separation from an infected spouse; the nature of the marital intimacy under these circumstances; and whether AIDS may be considered a fatal disease. The conference spent three days in study and lively discussions, and ended its closing session with a number of important proposals and recommend...
FBIS3-21399_8
Rights of AIDS Victims, Other Issues Defined
of AIDS infection. They concluded that if either partner were to be infected with this disease, then the uninfected partner may refrain from marital intimacy, because sexual contact is the major mode of transmitting the virus. If the healthy partner wishes to have sexual intimacy, then prudence requires him to use a co...
FBIS3-21411_4
Marketing Rocket Technology in Arkansas
This policy establishes that all missiles carrying any equipment into space must be produced in the United States. That restriction applies to both military hardware (satellites carrying photographic instruments, satellites carrying warning devices, such as those used during the Gulf war, and communications and listeni...
FBIS3-21415_3
Al-Turabi on Egypt, Algeria, Extremism
for example, more Islamic on the political level than Egypt is, does that make it more suspect?" He also asserted that he does not consider himself to be basically a fundamentalist or an Islamic extremist. He said: "The implementation of Islam in Sudan is not just a cultural movement, but is also an intellectual moveme...
FBIS3-21420_0
Clinton Remarks to Pakistan Envoy Cause Concern Remarks `Not Surprising'
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "Blinkered View"] [Text] Considering that the U.S. State Department's South Asian desk has begun to compare the situation in Kashmir with the civil war in Afghanistan and has even been questioning the validity of the state's accession to India, Mr Clinton's latest remarks ...
FBIS3-21421_0
Continuing Reportage on Relations With U.S. `Gentler Tone Is Evident'
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by C. Raja Mohan: "U.S. Softens Tone on India"] [Text] Washington, Feb. 10--The Clinton administration may not initiate any substantive change in its policy towards India, but a more cautious and gentler tone is evident. Apparently there is a recognition of the buffeting that...
FBIS3-21452_5
Private Sector Role in Mining Increased
of customs duty on finished metals like copper, zinc and aluminium, has hit companies like Hindustan [HCL] Copper, Hindustan Zinc [HZL] and National Aluminium. While the Government has dereserved 15 minerals, ilmenite, siliminate and mica have been kept out of this list. Bauxite also does not appear in the deleted list...
FBIS3-21474_3
Effects of GATT on Economy Examined
the extent to which its terms will affect the local economy. The positions that have emerged in this debate have proved to be personal impressions not based on a practical foundation or on familiarity with the terms of the agreement or the extent of the Moroccan economy's compliance with these terms. These positions ha...
FBIS3-21475_0
Unemployment Trends Examined
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by al-Mahdi Lahlou: "Unemployment and Wages Under Present Conditions"] [Text] The manner in which the restructuring program has been carried out in Morocco has led to encouraging the exchange of goods at the expense of production and thus to the encouragement of an unregulated...
FBIS3-21475_6
Unemployment Trends Examined
has decreased its volume of employment, starting in 1983, down to between 12,000 and 15,000 jobs per year. Judging from the overall situation that characterized the above-mentioned 10-year period, it is clear that there was a difference of between 200,000 and 250,000 jobs provided in the seventies as opposed to the eig...
FBIS3-21476_4
Country Seen As EC's Mexico
from the analysts working for the IMF. Robert Miller, one of the chief analysts who contributed to the study, says that "Egypt was far less promising than the other nations in the area because of the enormous number of state-owned establishments, which are moving only very slowly in the direction of privatization." Mil...
FBIS3-21493_1
Germany Said Home of FIS, Refugees
the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), installed with its facilities and its leadership--to operate quite legally, something that would be quite unthinkable in France or in the United States. Actually, these countries will admit only nonpolitical foreign associations. It was only when the PKK officially claimed responsibil...
FBIS3-21537_0
Western Aid in Return for Scrapping Nukes Seen as Meager
Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Article by Oksana Boyko: "A Jacket of Aid for Ukraine Made in the West. A Strait-Jacket?"] [Text] The ambassadors of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States met on 14 February with Preside...
FBIS3-21572_1
Ukraine Transfers Nuclear Warheads to Russia Amid Fuel Controversy Train-Load of Nuclear Warheads Leaves for Russia
Ukraine fuel for its nuclear power stations in exchange for the nuclear warheads, but not in the form of reprocessed nuclear material from the missiles that have been removed. According to the expert, it will take a long time to reprocess it, from several months to a year. Fuel for the Ukrainian nuclear power plants wi...
FBIS3-21593_1
Scientist Views Disadvantages of Nuclear Disarmament
the advertised free market principles, based upon a balance of demand and supply? Third, if something really needs to be compensated for in full, it is Ukraine's growing strategic vulnerability. In accordance with the information issued by high-ranking representatives of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense that was broadcast...
FBIS3-21608_1
Former President Paz Zamora, Top MIR Leaders Linked to Drug Traffickers
the Government House aides de camp; Mrs. Edith Paz Zamora; and Rosario Paz Zamora, who took him flowers; as well as by [MIR president] Oscar Eid Franco, who paid the hospital bill. He gave Edgar Fernandez [another Chavarria employee] about $25,000 to pay the hospital expenses." Oscar Eid Franco has confirmed that he pa...
FBIS3-21611_0
Daily Examines `Unexpected, Dramatic Turn' in U.S. Antidrug Policy
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Drug Trafficking Problem: Unfavorable Winds Blow From Washington"] [Text] The U.S. anti-drug policy seems to have taken an unexpected and dramatic turn. First President Clinton himself, and later on the main U.S. Government authorities responsible for this area, annou...
FBIS3-21617_0
President Disagrees With Reduction of U.S. Antidrug Aid
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Cochabamba, 16 Feb (EL MUNDO) -- President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada said: "We disagree with the reduction of U.S. economic aid for interdiction and against drug trafficking. We believe we should have serious and permanent U.S. economic aid without disregarding national soverei...
FBIS3-21652_0
Muslim Youths Demonstrate at U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Demand `Apology'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Feb 22 (AFP) -- Up to 2,000 Moslem youths staged an anti-American demonstration in front of the US Embassy here Tuesday, accusing it of involvement in drug trafficking and of anti-Moslem policies. "We demand an apology from the US government over the involvement of its...
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Further on Demonstration at U.S. Embassy
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Feb 22 (ANTARA) -- Thousands of students from Jakarta and Bandung staged a demonstration in front of the US Embassy here Tuesday, on the Bosnia-Herzegovina issue and the recent drug trafficking involving two staff members of the embassy. "We insist that the US Governme...
FBIS3-21656_0
Official Discusses Program's Efforts To Prevent Drug Addiction
Language: Malay Article Type:CSO [Text] Kuala Lumpur, 2 January--The effort to prevent drug addiction by education, which has been under way in the country for the past 10 years, is showing encouraging success. This was stated by Lee Lam Thye, vice president of Pemadam Kebangsaan [National Drug Prevention Program]. Acc...
FBIS3-21660_0
Senior Officials Comment on General's Arrest for Heroin Trafficking Chuan, Chamni, Others Comment
Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Excerpts] [Passage omitted] The AFP news service issued a report from Hong Kong on 10 December stating that Major General Thanat Phakpadiphat, a 55-year-old officer assigned to Supreme Command, appeared at the Hong Kong court last Thursday while awaiting extradition to the United States...
FBIS3-21667_0
Addiction Levels, User Profiles Reported
Language: Vietnamese Article Type:CSO [Article: "Antidrug Education in Schools--Drug Addiction, Production, and Trade Today"] [Excerpts] According to World Health Organization data, the world as a whole has 50 million drug addicts using 3,303 tons of opium annually. Southeast Asia has about 5 million addicts using 1,88...
FBIS3-21668_4
Counterdrug Efforts in Nghe An Province Examined
campaigns, obviously the campaign this time is different in both nature and scope. Addicts generally consist of: First, well-to-do people who have nothing to do but to seek pleasure, like the group of "da do" (red stone) people in Quynh Chau, or the new rich. Second, adolescents who curiously try something new by smoki...
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Counterdrug Efforts in Nghe An Province Examined
Tu answered me, smiling. "First of all, the addicts wanted to be rid of the habit. They were broke. Their houses leaked. They had no rice. Their clothes were all rags. They were emaciated and sick. Both wives and husbands showed displeasure toward each other on their face. If they did not undergo detoxifying treatment,...
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Counterdrug Efforts in Nghe An Province Examined
Vinh to buy other medications. And finally it had to use the district party secretary's prescription, now called TK92. It was TK92 that helped to cure 113 of the 118 cases, with only five patients becoming addicted again because of a recurrence of their chronic diseases. What did they use to treat these diseases? Once ...
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Counterdrug Efforts in Nghe An Province Examined
the medical staff, the village cadres also stationed four public security men there. Then orders were issued for holding a meeting. Then people were sent out to escort the addicts in. It was as noisy as an operation launched to catch a bunch of bandits. In the first phase, there were 11 detoxification patients. After t...
FBIS3-21695_0
Tskhinvali Described as `Thriving' Center for Drug Trade
Language: Georgian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Samachablo Begs To Be Saved!"] [Excerpts] Today, almost everyone has forgotten about the problems in Samachablo [South Ossetia]. The war in Abkhazia has overshadowed the tragic events taking place there. Sometimes the press or mass media remind us in short rep...
FBIS3-21715_2
Red, `Backwoods' Commands Reportedly Cooperating in Armored Car Holdups
numbers racket." According to the PM in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and the book Comando Vermelho (Red Command) by Carlos Amorim, the Red Command has 6,500 armed men, and 10,000 people involved in the drug traffic have ties with the organization. The CV's activities result in a turnover of $50,000 a day in Sao Paulo a...
FBIS3-21715_3
Red, `Backwoods' Commands Reportedly Cooperating in Armored Car Holdups
that he could then demand money to keep silent. The sergeant is currently in the Bangu I maximum security prison in Rio de Janeiro. Before being transferred there, the sergeant told Police Chief Aldo Galiano, Jr., how he had been operating in Sao Paulo. "The sergeant told me that he was working for the CV and that he h...
FBIS3-21726_0
Arrested Cali Cartel Leader Orejuela Caballero Has Heart Attack
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "NTC Newscast"] [Text] Alleged drug trafficker Jaime Orejuela Caballero of the Cali Cartel was taken to Shaio Clinic in Bogota following a heart attack. Orejuela was being held at DIJIN [Judicial Police and Investigations Directorate] headquarters after he was arrested durin...
FBIS3-21734_1
`Shady Relationship' Between Military, `Narcos' Putting Weapons in Zapatistas' Hands
the complacency of the drug traffickers. This requirement is due to the natural difficulty in gaining access to the select core of clandestine clients among the military personnel, whose preeminent mission is to incapacitate (and, of course, not rearm) criminals and potential adversaries of the government of the republ...
FBIS3-21737_0
Addiction Among Youth in Coahuila Lake Region Studied
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by correspondent Alonso Gomez Uranga] [Text] Torreon, Coahuila, 11 February--In the lake region, adolescents and youths are the main victims of drug addiction, because 40 percent of the addicts are aged between 15 and 19, 25 percent between 20 and 24, and the rest 25 years an...
FBIS3-21761_0
INCB Report Calls Africa `Weakest Link' in International War Against Drugs
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Windhoek Feb 27 SAPA -- Africa continued to be the weakest link in the international war against drugs, with cannabis (dagga) the continents' most abused drug, according to a new report. Fifteen african countries were not party to any drug-control treaty, according to the Inter...
FBIS3-21766_0
UN Report Says Drug Trafficking in Republic Increasing
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague Feb 28 (CTK) -- The Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia are increasingly being used as transshipment and storage sites in the heroin trade, according to the UN's International Council for Narcotics Control. Andreas Nicklisch of the UN Information Centre in Prag...
FBIS3-21770_1
Interior Minister Discusses `Explosion' of Mafia-Type Crime
and smuggling on an unbelievably large scale, armed attacks to obtain material gain and maintain an atmosphere of civic insecurity, money laundering and hacking into banking financial systems, labor-force swindles, illegal capital transfers abroad, the introduction into the country of large amounts of toxic waste, arms...
FBIS3-21771_0
Europol's Initial Antidrug Efforts Reported
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Leonard Doyle article: "Drugs Intelligence Unit Sweeps Into Action"] [Text] After only two weeks in business, Europol, the new drugs intelligence unit of the European Union, is taking credit for two international drug sweeps involving the police forces of Greece, Belgium and France. ...
FBIS3-21773_0
Nine Kurds Arrested, 2.5 Kg of Heroin Seized in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Wiesbaden (DPA) -- Special task forces of the police in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden have now arrested nine Kurdish men and seized 2.5 kg of heroin. According to information released on Thursday, police had certain indications that Kurds put large amounts of drugs on the market alrea...
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Corruption Probe of Stoke Newington Police Winding Down
on them by detectives from the station. By early 1992, three officers had been suspended and eight transferred. One officer central to many allegations was Det-Con Roy Lewandowski, who was eventually charged with stealing valuables from the home of a man who died after a burglary at his home. He was also accused of pla...
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Police Investigate Links Between Rio Traffickers, African Weapons Suppliers
come through these two routes because this type of weapon or ammunition do not exist in Miami or Paraguay." The PF investigations have shown that the Russian weapons may be coming from Africa through the Middle East and Asian countries such as Afghanistan, that have overcome difficult phases of regional wars and battle...
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Narcotics Roundup for 7-13 March Burma Combined Group Makes Drug Seizures in Namhkam Township Indonesia Aceh Police Seize 144 Kg of Marijuana, Arrest Two Malaysia National Drug Problem "Worsened" in 1993 Singapore Three Thai Nationals Sentenced to Die for Drug Trafficking Thailand Amphetamines, Heroin Seized in Rat Bur...
rupiah for the trip. (Jakarta THE JAKARTA POST in English 1 Mar 94 p 2) Malaysia National Drug Problem "Worsened" in 1993 The drug problem "worsened" in 1993 with 24,023 addicts reported, including 9,727 new cases. This is the highest figure registered since the National Dadah [Drug] Information System was introduced i...
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Prominence of African Gangs in Copenhagen Drug Scene Detailed
a residence permit and this occurs "fairly often," as Jorgen Cemnitz, the leader of the Danish Red Cross asylum division, said. If such a marriage occurs they automatically drop out of the asylum system. "Formerly Africans acted as couriers, especially for Pakistani drug dealers. But that time is past. Today we have tw...
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Reactions to Party's Decriminalization Proposals Detailed
when you sit there crying, having a hell of a time, and are ready to quit," "Maria" says. We met "Maria" at Halmtorvet, and over a Jolly Cola at Freddy's Bar she tells us that she has been an addict since she was 11 years old. "Cocaine and heroin. I spend 1,800 kroner a day on drugs. I walk the streets to make the mone...
FBIS3-21885_2
Overview of Drug Seizures, Arrests in Country's Various Regions
Drug Trafficking Investigation: "We conduct operations there almost every week. It's a difficult, complicated district, because it has its own very special connections for protection and complicity." It is also the area of the capital in which the largest number of needles can be found per square kilometer of roadways....
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Changes in Drug Trafficking Routes Viewed
between Turkey and Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, which are known as the "Golden Crescent" countries. The Directorate of Smuggling and Intelligence Work Narcotics Department, which is affiliated with the General Directorate of Police, has drawn up a report on the recent changes in drug trafficking in the region. The ...
FBIS3-21905_4
Newspaper Highlights Justice Minister's Letter to De Greiff
shall be opened in his case." This is the scope of the new regulations for the surrender policy, says the minister. In essence, these regulations require effective cooperation with law enforcement so that a preliminary investigation or formal probable cause proceeding may take place, resulting in sufficient evidence to...
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Newspaper Highlights Justice Minister's Letter to De Greiff
simply confesses his crime, in which case Article 369B of the Code of Criminal Procedure should be applied. - The application of Article 369E of the procedural statute is predicated upon cooperation with justice authorities. Indeed, the aforementioned regulation is part of the legal institution known as "surrender to a...
FBIS3-21921_0
Almoloya Prison Director Claims Drug `Capos' Financing Negative Press Campaign
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Hector Adorno Ruiz] [Excerpts] Claiming that there are no privileges nor distinctions at the Almoloya de Juarez federal maximum security prison, and that all inmates have the same rights and obligations, this incarceration center's director, Juan Pablo de Tavira, emphasize...
FBIS3-21973_3
Moscow Drug Scene Profiled
"colleague" a disdainful glance and let him go. He was not the only one of his kind at their service. While walking along the passage they stopped several times, first to have a little word with two big men with shaven heads, then with a heavily made-up prostitute. The young lady told the civil guardians about the move...
FBIS3-21986_0
Drug Enforcement Laws To Be Discussed During Vice President Gore's Visit
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] U.S. Ambassador James Cheek on 14 March said that on 21 March U.S. Vice President Al Gore will propose to President Carlos Menem the need for Congress to pass a law creating the status of repentant within a group of new legal weapons against drug trafficking. Cheek thus confirm...
FBIS3-21987_0
Defense, Foreign Ministries Disagree Over U.S. Antinarcotics Proposal
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Daniel Santoro; copyright CLARIN] [Text] The United States has reiterated its "subtle" request that the Argentine Government make antinarcotics action "more efficient" by opening two battle fronts. On the one hand, Washington wants more legal weaponry to be given to judges...
FBIS3-21997_1
Rio Drug Traffickers Reportedly Employ 5,000 Minors
in the Chale shantytown in Mangueira, where the boss, "F," turned 14 on 4 January. His gang is composed of children, young men, and even adults who follow his orders. There are two factors behind the increasingly significant presence of boys and adolescents in the indoor drug markets, according to police: the fact that...
FBIS3-21997_7
Rio Drug Traffickers Reportedly Employ 5,000 Minors
nor negotiated. You pay with your life. Ten Percent of Crimes Committed by Minors Are Drug-Related During the first ten months of 1993, the Children and Adolescents Protection Division (DPCA) recorded a total of 1,166 crimes committed by children and young people between the ages of 7 and 18. Of this total, about 120 c...
FBIS3-22022_0
UN Asks Government To Report on Precursors, Drug Situation
Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] Brasilia -- The United Nations estimates that between 70 and 80 percent of the chemical substances used in processing cocaine in Peru and Bolivia are either manufactured in or shipped through Brazil. The statement was made yesterday by Herbert Schaepe, secretary of the UN In...
FBIS3-22042_1
Freed Drug Traffickers Face New Trial
determine whether the reopening of the case is in order. These individuals received the benefit of a "no cause" verdict on Friday, 14 January. The new "evidence" reportedly was turned over to the prosecutor this Thursday morning, during a visit to the DNCD headquarters, where a meeting was held with high officials of t...
FBIS3-22043_2
New Measures To Prevent Money Laundering Announced
to send to the CONSEP executive secretary's office and to the Superintendency of Banks a copy of the final report on the investigations conducted. In instances wherein the presence of members of the National Directorate of Narcotics Investigations and Interpol is required in the institution in which the investigation s...
FBIS3-22085_1
Official Outlines Draft Law on Organized Crime
so-called laundering of dirty money. The second part defines legal means and procedures that would make it possible to expose and document serious criminal activity in a way that could be used as evidence in court [s procesnou posobnostou]. The course of action by the bodies involved in criminal proceedings has until n...
FBIS3-22090_0
Police Street `Offensive' Against Drugs Lauded
Language: Danish Article Type:CSO [Article by Anders Lehmann: "Police Made Whipping Boy in Narcotics Debate"--first paragraph is BERLINGSKE TIDENDE introduction] [Text] The director of a drug treatment center fears that drug addicts will be victims of neighborhood action if the police withdraw from Vesterbro. Heightene...
FBIS3-22101_3
Country's Drug Trade Examined `A Strange Small State in Which the Drug Problem Is of No Concern to Anyone'
on the "black" market. According to information obtained from the security police, a five-gram package of marijuana and one cubic [centimeter] of liquid opium cost 50 kroons, one gram of hashish--no less than 75 kroons, and a cubic [centimeter] of a synthetic drug (too weak for "professionals")--as little as 25 kroons....
FBIS3-22109_0
Economic Opening Brings Environmental Damage
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Murray Hiebert from Hanoi] [Text] As Vietnam opens its economy to market forces, the cachet of foreign goods is on the rise. But conspicuous consumpton is only one of the problems Hanoi's bureaucrats now need to keep an eye on. They are quickly learning that the industriali...
FBIS3-22111_0
International Delegation Arrives To Update Environment Plan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, January 8 (BTA) -- Experts of the World Bank, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency arrived on a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of Environment Minister Va...
FBIS3-22114_0
Environmentalists Lodge Complaint Over Temelin
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, Feb 23 (CTK) -- Greenpeace and two Czech environmentalist groups, Duha (RAINBOW) and Deti Zeme (Children of the Earth), have lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court against the Government and the Trade and Industry Ministry over the Temelin power station, the g...
FBIS3-22118_2
Scientist Fears Lethal Gas Will Fall in Terrorist Hands
from the Volga. Away from prying eyes, a constant stream of explosions releases thick clouds of toxic substances into the atmosphere. It is here that the army destroys its excess of chemical weapons before Western observers can notice the deception. All this occurs to the detriment of the most basic safety rules. It is...
FBIS3-22119_11
Book Analyzes State of Global, Russian Environment
today, while another 1,225 million suffer from real poverty. In developing countries, 95% of children are born, live and die in poverty, being deprived of the benefits of the scientific and technological achievements. About 2 billion people suffer from water shortage and have to use unhealthy water; the low quality of ...
FBIS3-22119_17
Book Analyzes State of Global, Russian Environment
sources should be used. The other concept of environmental safety proceeds from an intuitive belief that it is necessary to conserve a certain part of biosphere and keep it free from any economic activity. It is assumed that this part of biosphere is necessary to keep in order to sustain the environment. But no assessm...
FBIS3-22119_32
Book Analyzes State of Global, Russian Environment
answers to fundamental problems which remained unsolved within the scopes of the previous concepts. Perspectives for Survival As has been suggested above, one has every reason to believe that only the biosphere which consists of the biota and the environment interacting with it, is capable to sustain the environment, p...
FBIS3-22120_0
Ministry Charges Greenpeace With Misinformation
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Moscow, February 1, RIA -- The allegations that Russia has already turned into a site for deploying harmful industrial waste from Western countries have no grounds and are misinformation, runs today's statement of the Russian Ministry of Environmental Protection. The statement ...