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FBIS3-40602_1 | Bhutto Warned Nuclear Roll-Back Would Cause Dismissal | opposition insists (actually accuses) that Madam Bhutto's earlier statement was not just a statement, but an admission. Still, this question is very important, and it requires an explanation: who committed the condemnable act of freezing the peaceful nuclear program, which symbolizes our nation's security and pride, at... |
FBIS3-40617_1 | Editorial: `Growing Problem' of Debt Servicing | According to reports Pakistan repaid $508 million in principle and interest on foreign debt only during the first three months of the current fiscal year. This indicates the growing problem of our debt servicing liability at a time when not only our exports have begun to stagnate but remittances from overseas Pakistani... |
FBIS3-40626_5 | Dunkel's Acceptance Seen Impoverishing | years instead of for 10 years, then our government should kick that stubbornness away. Make these Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and Colgate people scram from here. The 900 million Indian people have tolerated a lot. The multi-national companies are showing up here to exploit India's cheap labor, ample energy sources, and abund... |
FBIS3-40630_3 | Opening of Market to Multi-Nationals Feared | the westernized modern beliefs. The extraordinary era of creativity and thinking led by Dadabhai Nauroji, Tilak, Bipin Chander Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Arvind, Vivekananda, Gandhi, Ravinder Nath, Jai Shankar Prasad, Lohia, and Narender Dev is neglected now. The whole system got engrossed in the illusion of inhuman, barren... |
FBIS3-40645_5 | GATT Antithesis to National Interest Reiterated | get manufactured in foreign countries, will sell in India for the equivalent of their price. The removal of mandatory licensing and relaxing of import restrictions are going to result in drug manufacturers not worrying to sell for lesser price in India. Manufacturing patents will also restrict the methods of production... |
FBIS3-40646_1 | Indigenous Laws Suggested for Safeguarding Rights | of the total in developing countries. In these countries, farmers play an important role in conserving local plant genetic resources and restrictions on free access to these will reduce global biological diversity. Farmers are informal plant breeders and patents on plants are likely to restrict access to a common pool ... |
FBIS3-40651_7 | Uruguay Round Issues Relevant to India Discussed | entirety has informed policy changes by other developing countries. One by one, countries earlier opposed to a product patent regime have already made changes. Mexico, Brazil and China have all embraced product patents and longer protection regimes. Their perspective has been one of signalling to foreign investment. Pa... |
FBIS3-40654_1 | Commerce Parliamentary Committee Recommends GATT | sovereign economic space of developing countries was safeguarded by making common cause with other developing countries. The committee is of the view that with ratification of the present round of GATT negotiations, the option now available with the US to clamp Super 301 of their trade laws unilaterally against any cou... |
FBIS3-40673_3 | Former Foreign Secretary Says Government Confused | runs on the following lines. "We have been given a transitional period of 5 to 10 years. We can maintain our present regime for the time being. No changes need be made in our present policies." This is good as far as it goes. But should we not pay greater attention to the new international regimes that have been establ... |
FBIS3-40678_6 | Far-Reaching Implications of GATT Viewed | propagating material." There are three exceptions to the breeder's Rights: (a) acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes; (b) acts done for experimental purposes; and (c) acts done for the purpose of breeding other varieties. The effect of these provisions in conjunction with Dunkel Proposals could be stated ... |
FBIS3-40686_4 | Reaction to GATT Agreement Seen Negative | the question of whether or not we should have signed it is hypothetical. We never tried to find an alternative. We could have stood firm on the question of intellectual property rights and could have got the support of countries like Argentina and Brazil. They cannot impose a so-called uniform multilateral trading orde... |
FBIS3-40686_7 | Reaction to GATT Agreement Seen Negative | the Government must consider what safeguards it can give local producers. We have both manpower and technical capabilities." It is in the area of health that the new intellectual property regime will perhaps make the most palpable impact. Drug prices are predicted to rise steeply. "Yesterday was the saddest day in my l... |
FBIS3-40690_2 | GATT Seen Opening Markets for Developing Countries | the GDP. However, an increase in the volume of trade by $200 million annually does not mean much unless it goes towards improving India's trade balance. So when Mr Pranab Mukherjee assures a baying Opposition that India's share of the increased action would be in the region of $200 million, nothing is actually being sa... |
FBIS3-40691_0 | Benefits in International Trade Foreseen From GATT | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Anjan Roy: "Little Brother Does Get a Share"] [Text] The ruckus in Parliament this week over India acceding to the General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT) treaty (the Dunkel final draft) can be understood only in terms of political parties adopting positions of tactic... |
FBIS3-40703_1 | Minister Sets Conditions for GATT Acceptance | effect of the UAE's entry into GATT on UAE ready-made clothing exports to the United States would not be quickly felt, because the transition to implementation of the agreement regarding clothes and textiles will last 10 years. He said that the export of ready-made, UAE-made clothes to the United States will be governe... |
FBIS3-40705_17 | Reasons for Constitutional Amendments Discussed | This article should be rephrased so that it will make it clearly understood that no penal law may be issued with a retroactive effect. - Article 32. It is required to amend this article so as to eliminate the contradiction in some of its paragraphs, to achieve a clearer and more realistic definition of the authorities ... |
FBIS3-40706_1 | Causes of Poor Economic Growth Examined | GDP was 11 percent, but in 1990 it went down to 10 percent. The contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GDP is 20 percent in India, 24 percent in Thailand, and 16 percent in Pakistan. In Bangladesh it is only 9 percent. Apart from the poor industrial growth, losses in the industrial sector have become routine. ... |
FBIS3-40708_2 | Correspondent Reports U.S. Arms for Pakistan | last summer. But they are unwilling to comment on the exact value of that transfer. The Clinton Administration's plans to provide arms to Pakistan through the U.N. peace-keeping route has angered the U.S. Congressional leadership. In a letter sent last week to the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Warren Christopher, a grou... |
FBIS3-40736_13 | Economic Council Member Criticizes 'Arafat | give us written approval because he is a "democratic man who deals through the institutions and has to present the formula to the Executive Committee." He added that they had created a Higher Palestinian National Committee--of whose members only the chairman has been appointed to date--and that the formula had to be pr... |
FBIS3-40743_0 | Oran: Twelve Reported Dead in Landslide | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article by Razik Remila: "Tragedy in Oran Substandard Housing: 12 Dead, 46 Injured"--first paragraph is LIBERTE introduction] [Text] During the night of Saturday (around 2230), the people of the old district of El-Bahia awoke to the height of tragedy. According to sources very close t... |
FBIS3-40750_2 | Government Said Unable to Fight Off Foreign Economic Domination | new GATT regime will have on India's pharmaceutical industry. Already Zeneca, a drugs MNC, is talking of the money it would recover from Third World "imitators." When France threatened to block the Dunkel proposals on farming the US made concessions and the European Community loosened the purse strings to give more sub... |
FBIS3-40760_4 | Official Interviewed on Petroleum Minister's Tour | setting of a date or the timing of an announcement to cut output to the relevant parties. They will engineer the timing, declaration, effective date, and implementation of this policy. ['Abd-al-Ghani] Were the GCC countries led to support the Omani initiative by the economic difficulties and hardships they are experien... |
FBIS3-40761_8 | Minister Discusses Communication Expansion Plans | about which I have talked are made available. Overlapping of Lines [al-Qadi] Some people complain of the overlapping and jamming of lines when calls are made. What is Your Excellency's opinion? [Kayyal] The ministry is aware of this problem, and it is exerting maximum efforts and using all the resources it can to elimi... |
FBIS3-40763_2 | Al-Zandani's Past, Future Relationships Analyzed | Council appointment, which received support in advance from all parties, came as a sign of the extent to which positions in Yemen have changed. Yesterday's enemies are today's allies. The many lines of contact among the three main political parties prevent any analyst from drawing easy inferences, however logical they ... |
FBIS3-40763_9 | Al-Zandani's Past, Future Relationships Analyzed | from the leadership (Yasin 'Abd-al-'Aziz took his place) and returned to working behind the scenes--this time in the Ba'dan area where he had grown up. A second, peaceful coup then took place. Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim al-Hamdi, who took power, extended the hand of peace to the Islamic movement and allowed the establi... |
FBIS3-40764_1 | One Hundred to Appear at Court For Economic Sabotage | abroad. Among the persons arrested was the director of the Foreign Exchange Division of the Bank Tejarat [Commerce], the third-largest government bank in Iran, which administers more than 60 percent of the currency transactions in the private sector. It is believed that two prominent deputies of the above-mentioned dir... |
FBIS3-40773_1 | Panel Comments on GATT Membership Effects | The committee said that with the ratification of the present round of GATT negotiations, the option now available with the United States to clamp Super 301 unilaterally against any country should also cease. However, it urged Indian negotiations to obtain specific clarifications to that effect. Referring to individual ... |
FBIS3-40774_0 | Paper Gives Details on Pact With European Union | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Brussels, Dec. 20 (UNI)--A major milestone was achieved in the relations between India and the European Union [EU] when the two sides granted each other the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status on Monday and pledged to reinforce and diversify cooperation in agriculture, transport ... |
FBIS3-40791_2 | Hamas Receives Major Aid Increase | the newspaper JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI, which is published by Khamene'i, the Hamas leader expressed his belief that the PLO and Israel would not be able to accomplish the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho by the 13 December deadline. Abu-Marzuq hinted that the agreement would fail because of the contradictions inherent... |
FBIS3-40801_4 | Population Growth of 16 Million Projected by 2000 | are still high rates that warn of danger. Perhaps the comparison here is significant. In the United States, the average number of childen born to one woman is two; in 1980 it was 1.8. Possible Dangers Egypt has had significant experience in birth control, one which has drawn many and varied criticisms since it began in... |
FBIS3-40807_1 | Commentator Discusses Relations With U.S. | with a new comprehensive foreign aid law that will apply the Pressler-type restrictions to all non-NPT (Nonproliferation Treaty) countries and even those signatories (read China) that are seeking to expand their nuclear arsenals. India will, of course be included in the first category. And, as if our cup of woe was sti... |
FBIS3-40807_5 | Commentator Discusses Relations With U.S. | while he was out buying his lunch, the U.N. command said `Guerillas fire from crowds. They use women and children as human shields. There are bound to be civilian casualties when U.N. troops fire back in self-defence.' Does that sound familiar Mr. Shattuck? On the role of the U.N. as a world policeman, realism, burst t... |
FBIS3-40809_2 | Correspondent on U.S. South Asia Policy | people" and its willingness to help resolve (in other 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 Pa... |
FBIS3-40814_3 | Parliament Debates Securities Scam Report 30 Dec Session Described | country gone bankrupt. The ruling party in the Rayja Sabha launched a direct attack on the JPC report in the face of vociferous demand from the Opposition for the resignation of all the Ministers against whom adverse comments have been made in the Committee report. Barring the melodrama towards the end that centred aro... |
FBIS3-40822_3 | Article Argues for Right of Return | right" represents a complete negation of true humanitarian criteria. Of all Palestinian rights, the right of return is the one that most inspires the dreams of afflicted Palestinians. It will turn out to be an outrageous crime if the United States feigns inability to help us respond to this political and humanitarian n... |
FBIS3-40826_0 | Opposition Parties Call for More Democracy Text of Opposition Manifesto | Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Text] On the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the 11 January manifesto demanding independence, the three national democratic parties--the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, Istiqlal, and the Organization of Popular Democratic Action--issued a historic statement demanding that d... |
FBIS3-40829_3 | Impact of GATT on Economic Development Viewed | of fruits and vegetables, modernize cereal growing, and develop our fishing and stockraising potential to increase production and the profitability of farming in order to feed a steadily growing and ever-more demanding population and improve the food trade balance. Our agriculture must modernize its structures and incr... |
FBIS3-40865_0 | New Income Tax Law Regulations Clarified | Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Interview with Fathi 'Abd-al-Baqi, tax authority chairman, by 'Ala'-al-Din Mustafa; place and date not given] [Text] Now that unified tax law No. 187 of 1993 has been promulgated, its provisions will go into effect as of 1 January 1994. A major question arises here: How will this law ... |
FBIS3-40882_4 | Prominent People Oppose Nuclear Power Plant | of a PLTN for a nation. Djali Ahimsa's answer and attitude demonstrates the arrogance of power, as though he knows best what this nation needs. I am anti-PLTN 200 percent, in fact, 1,000 percent. There is no further doubt about its danger. From the aspect of culture, I do not believe that the technological discipline o... |
FBIS3-40893_0 | Official Discusses Role of Labor Unions | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:CSO [Article by Nguyen Van Tu, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and president of the Confederation of Vietnamese Workers] [Text] In the movement to renovate socialist construction, along with the formation of a multifaceted economy and the reorganization of pr... |
FBIS3-40909_0 | Clinton, Yeltsin Sign Agreements After Tripartite Deal Settled Statement on Export Controls Joint statement on issues of export controls and policy in the area of transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] [no dateline as received] Joint statement on issues of export controls and policy in the area of transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use technologies [Text] The secretary of state of the United States of America and the minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federati... |
FBIS3-40910_0 | Russian Views of the Tripartite Agreement Deal Criticized | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Pavel Felgengauer: "Choosing an Objective American Style"] [Text] Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin have agreed that the strategic nuclear missiles of the United States and Russia will now be trained in not on the territory of the "probable enemy," but instead--on the empty r... |
FBIS3-40919_3 | Need for Agreement on Missile Warning System Cited | to expand the radar field by including stations in the polar region, Latvia, and Ukraine. A plan was then developed for total, continuous OTH coverage in the missile-vulnerable western, southwestern, southern, and northeastern sectors. At the same time work was also under way on a fundamentally new phased-array OTH rad... |
FBIS3-40922_6 | Cash Shortage Hits Arms Destruction Program | would certainly be worth raising the question of postponing the destruction of weapons and spreading the schedule over several months or even over a year or so. In what, ultimately, does the West have a vested interest? In a country crushed by the weight of its economic problems, but with not a single superfluous tank ... |
FBIS3-40931_1 | Ukraine Maneuvers Before 14 January Agreement Is Signed Foreign Ministry Statement 11 January | between the U.S., Russian, and Ukrainian presidents -- as hastily reported by Ostankino Television -- and on a bilateral meeting between the Ukrainian and U.S. presidents, Yuriy Serheyev, chief of Foreign Ministry Information Department, in particular said: [Begin Serheyev recording] As of today, I cannot say that a fi... |
FBIS3-40946_2 | Various Reactions to Tripartite Agreement Benefits Questioned | Friday [14 January] about Moscow's pledges of fair play in negotiating the $2-billion indebtness with Kiev have not borne out entirely. Looming ahead is the perspective of endless blanket-pulling and difficult inter-governmental talks. According to a dark vision by government officials, instead of the entire debt, Russ... |
FBIS3-40947_3 | Various Reactions to Tripartite Agreement Interview With Tarasenko | after its parameters are specified. Ostapenko: I am sorry to interrupt you. You have just read out the item that has to do with all sides without exception. But nothing is said here about the Supreme Council resolution on the ratification of START I with reservations. It clearly stipulates that 36 percent of launcher v... |
FBIS3-40962_4 | Nuclear Control Said `Technically Possible' | yes, the decree is at variance with some articles of the Lisbon Protocol under which our president's signature appears; yes, the document itself, from the point of view of politicians, contains rather naive points regarding security guarantees for Ukraine. However, it is pointless to assert either the wisdom or worthle... |
FBIS3-40966_0 | Plans To Ease Arms Export Restrictions Internal Debate | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] New details have been revealed today of Bonn's efforts to change the guidelines on German arms exports. According to these details, the government, too, is seeking to make arms exports easier. According to information obtained by our Bonn office, talks on this have been conducte... |
FBIS3-40967_0 | Plans To Ease Arms Export Restrictions Opposition To Plan | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["K.B." report: "Unexpected Protest Against Easier Arms Exports"] [Text] Bonn, 5 January -- Several leading members of the Christian Democratic Union [CDU]/Christian Social Union [CSU] Bundestag group have criticized foreign policy spokesman Lamers for his statements on arms export con... |
FBIS3-40975_0 | Editorial on Regional Disarmament | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Cairo, 25 Jan (MENA)--AL-AHRAM writes that the United Nations' efforts to disarm Iraq, which are part of the preparations to implement long-term monitoring of Iraq's armament, again raise the issue of controlling nuclear, conventional, and nonconventional armaments in the Middle... |
FBIS3-40990_1 | Disagreements With UN Over Weapons Monitoring | clause provides for the lifting of the international oil embargo against Iraq once Baghdad has honoured UN resolutions calling for the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Ekeus said he tried to emphasise in his talks with Iraqi leaders the "political ambiance" surrounding the clause. He was referring to ... |
FBIS3-41070_1 | 1993 Drug Seizures Three Times Higher Than Previous Year | and Bolivia, a big producer. All of them take advantage of the lack of surveillance and of border posts, especially in the Amazon Region, to transport the coca base. In 1993, the DRE intensified its cooperation with international organizations and foreign governments for the purpose of controlling drugs. Thanks to exch... |
FBIS3-41076_5 | Gaviria Interviewed on U.S. Troop Presence, Cali Cartel | more professional. Not only that, but we would end cooperation, equipment supply, maintenance, and intelligence that allow us to fight crime. [EL TIEMPO] President, but Juanchaco is not the only case. What were the U.S. planes that overflew Barranquilla this weekend up to? [Gaviria] According to what the Military Force... |
FBIS3-41078_3 | Deputy Prosecutor General Discusses Negotiated Criminal Penalties | as direct." According to Sintura, the early verdict procedure has enabled society to convict a number of criminals against whom the state had no evidence. The Ochoas and Urdinola Of the 12,000 hearings held by the Office of the Prosecutor General, the deputy prosecutor's office has handled the eight most sensitive case... |
FBIS3-41109_0 | Justice Ministry's Investigations Bureau Uncovers Amphetamine Factory | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Article by reporter Huang Chingwei from Keelung: "Tucheng Amphetamine Factory Raided, International Drug Cache Captured; Suspect Big Brother' Shao Yuanlai, Founding Member of Narcotics Mob, Distribution Network in Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Den Caught in Midst of Operations"] [Tex... |
FBIS3-41158_2 | Army Chief: 30 Officers Faced Drug Charges in 1993 | are close allies of the Shining Path." Gen. Rodriguez added that the Army is currently using electronic devices that are used in times of war to investigate, identify, and rigorously and forcefully bring to trial--just as it does with terrorists--any officers engaged in crime. Gen. Rodriguez said the Army Inspector's O... |
FBIS3-41202_0 | Mentese Has `File' Listing PKK Members Involved in Drug Trade | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Strasbourg, Feb 4 (A.A) -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese presented a file of the outlawed separatist terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization which included the organization's relations with drug traffic, it was reported on Friday. Mentese who is currently atte... |
FBIS3-41211_0 | Role of Fundamentalists in Global Drug Trade Examined | Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Sa'id al-Qaysi in Kabul and Nayil Mukhaybir in Paris: "The `Golden Crescent' Outstrips the `Golden Triangle' in Opium Production; Triangle Sides Are Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran"] [Text] Where do the extremist Islamists get the money to cover the cost of their operations... |
FBIS3-41211_8 | Role of Fundamentalists in Global Drug Trade Examined | requires many times what Tehran is offering, particularly as their activities and ambitions are constantly on the rise; money, too, is an important and vital resource for persuading the poor and deprived to join them, for building secret networks and training camps, arms purchases, and logistics. Sudan, which carries a... |
FBIS3-41234_0 | U.S. Objectives in Aiding Country's Antinarcotics Effort Scrutinized | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Mauricio Schvartzman entitled "Computer Problems"] [Text] It is said that a former president of a small and poor country travelled to the United States last December. Arriving in Miami, an immigration department agent--after looking through the passenger's passport and con... |
FBIS3-41235_5 | Involvement of Vaticano's Family in Drug Trafficking Detailed | has told "LA REPUBLICA" that she did not know he was wanted by justice. "He never told me that," she said. But that was not the only amorous relationship she had with people linked with the drug trafficking business. According to the Dirandro [Antidrug Division] she also lived with Colombian citizen Jorge Rodriguez, a ... |
FBIS3-41237_5 | Air Force's Antidrug Efforts Viewed | the tops of the forest trees to avoid being spotted; they fly zig-zag along the rivers and leave in groups of three in different directions to avoid being intercepted. At night they also light up three or four airstrips at a time in various points of Huallaga to confuse FAP. Besides, FAP pilots do not have radars in th... |
FBIS3-41246_0 | Officials' Talks With U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Gelbard Detailed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "China, U.S. Team Up in Drug Control"] [Text] China and the United States have agreed to join efforts to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration, according to officials of the Ministry of Public Security. The agreement was signed by Bai Jingfu, vice-minis... |
FBIS3-41283_0 | Cabinet Given Statistics on Youth Crime, Addiction Rates | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["Welt-Nachrichtendienst" report: "Fewer Youths Sentenced"] [Text] Bonn -- The number of minors sentenced for theft and embezzlement has declined by 60 percent in 10 years. In a response to a grand inquiry by Christian Democratic Union [CDU]/Christian Social Union [CSU] and Free Democr... |
FBIS3-41291_0 | Health Official Gives Statistics on Country's Growing Drug Woes | Language: Latvian Article Type:BFN [Article by Agita Berzina: "Number of Drug Addicts Rising in Latvia"] [Text] Riga, 29 Jan -- The death rate among drug addicts in Latvia has increased, the number of drug-related crimes and the number of drug seizures have also risen, and drugs which were previously not available have... |
FBIS3-41312_1 | Rio Police Allegedly `In League' With Drug Traffickers | game lords take their positions, give orders, and revoke them, counting on the complicity of the police. In last week's bloodbath, in which 12 people were killed after 30 traffickers arrived by truck and vans, armed with machine guns and grenades--there is, as always, a suspicion that the police were involved. Before t... |
FBIS3-41331_0 | Reinstatement of `Mobile Units' Proposed | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Ignacio Gutierrez A.] [Text] In order to improve the results of drug seizures on the nation's highways, consideration is being given to the feasibility of using "mobile units," under the supervision of an agent from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office. The proposal was ... |
FBIS3-41338_0 | Foreign Minister Protests Statements | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Carmen Elida Contreras] [Text] Yesterday, Panamanian Foreign Minister Jose Raul Mulino rejected statements made in Washington by Robert Gelbard, U.S. assistant deputy secretary for inter-American affairs. Gelbard warned the United States could reduce its aid to countries, ... |
FBIS3-41350_0 | Narcotics Roundup for 14-20 February Two Americans, Five Others Arrested on Heroin Charges in Bangkok | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on narcotics developments in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific monitored by Bangkok Bureau between 14 and 20 February 1994. Source information is given in parentheses after each item. SOUTH ASIA Pakistan Karachi Police Seize Narcoti... |
FBIS3-41386_0 | Europol Chief Hopes To Go Beyond `Mere Surveillance' of Drug Traffickers | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Barbara Smit: "Europol To Stretch Arm of the Law Over Borders"] [Text] Amsterdam -- A prototype European Community police force was launched yesterday, with officers from the 12 member states making no secret of their ambition eventually to enforce the law across the EC, ig... |
FBIS3-41387_2 | Interpol Director General Discusses Drug Situation in West, East Europe | entire idea is--in essence--new. First of all, it is necessary for government and political officials to understand the seriousness of the threat represented by organized crime in the drugs trade and to be aware of the kind of resources that it is necessary to use. I think, however, that they are aware of the benefit t... |
FBIS3-41389_0 | Drug Policy Team Leader Comments on Issue of Legalization | Language: Finnish Article Type:CSO [Article by Timo Rautava: "Europe Has To Suffer More Damage From Drugs"] [Excerpts] The problems are so deep-seated that a more permissive approach for drug-control policies is not anticipated. [passage omitted] "Antidrug goals are so profoundly a part of UN principles that we will ha... |
FBIS3-41393_0 | Police Seize 6.5 Kg of Heroin in Stuttgart | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Stuttgart -- Police have seized 6.5 kilograms of heroin and over 30,000 German marks [DM] in drug money in a Stuttgart apartment. An arrest warrant has been issued against three Turkish citizens, whom the land criminal investigation department considers to be "members of a Kurdi... |
FBIS3-41404_0 | Bristol Police Seeking Dealers of `Purer Than Usual' Heroin | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Michael Prestage: "Police Close in on Dealers at Heart of Fatal Operation"] [Text] Police believe they know the identity of the dealers selling a purer than usual form of heroin in the St Paul's district of Bristol, which may have claimed the lives of eight addicts. A seni... |
FBIS3-41406_1 | Undercover Reporter Blasts Earlier Decision To Decriminalize Drug Use | office to write about how they had ended up there and how they feel in the "loony bin." Why did the newspaper need this particular crime report? The words "drug business" are used with increasing frequency in presentations by lawyers and employees of the prosecutor's offices and the militia. Some 1.5 million Russians u... |
FBIS3-41415_0 | Ministries, Agencies Map Biological Diversity Strategy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan 12 KYODO -- Officials of nine ministries and agencies met Wednesday [12 January] to begin planning Japan's response to the convention on biological diversity, an international legal instrument for the conservation and use of the earth's biological resources. The coor... |
FBIS3-41425_1 | Ambassador to Burma Clarifies Impact of Dam Projects | feasibility study an environmental impact assessment. Even now, there exists no agreement between the two countries on the implementation of a feasibility study of this project. 3. If and when there is a mutual agreement between Thailand and Myanmar regarding the Salwin hydroelectric project, the aforementioned environ... |
FBIS3-41438_1 | U.S. Antipollution Law on Ships Decried | in mitigating the problem as pollution related claims, not only accounted for a sizeable part of the total P&I claims but also because the wide publicity that is being given to the incidents of pollution affected the professional image of the shipping industry, he said. The clubs cover claims against their members for ... |
FBIS3-41446_1 | Official Views Results of Caspian Bioresources Conference | a scientifically substantiated system was worked out for reproduction, conservation, and rational fishing of the sturgeon family under conditions of regulated rivers and a deterioration in the ecological condition of the water systems. It is based on prohibition of sea fishing, restriction of river fishing, controls ov... |
FBIS3-41458_1 | Yablokov at Odds With Environment Minister Over State of Ecology | state of the environment is responsible for approximately 30 percent of our health, one year out of the three years of decline in average life expectancy in 1993 is accounted for by the environment. Soil-degradation processes are intensifying. The scale of the country's radiation contamination has not been reduced. Eac... |
FBIS3-41462_0 | Nuclear Waste Processing Plant Being Built on Credit | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the ``Vesti'' newscast: Video report by A. Peslyak, identified by caption; figures in brackets denote broadcast time in GMT in hours, minutes, and seconds] [Text] [110735] [Peslyak over video of Japanese, Moscow street scenes, Vladivostok harbor including warships and port insta... |
FBIS3-41463_4 | Krasnoyarsk-26 Installation Pollutes Yenisey | nuclear production located in the vicinity of the pipeline. All these constitute additional risk factors. On the whole, it is obvious to the independent investigators of ``Severnyy'' that it should stop operating. More up-to-date methods should be used to recycle radioactive waste. Yenisey's Nuclear Spoor In a climate ... |
FBIS3-41465_0 | Expert Views Ecology, Plans To Open Toxic Waste Dump | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with N. Sakharnykh, chairman of the Kaliningrad Oblast Ecology and Natural Resources Committee, by S. Tribunko; place and date not given: ``Ground -- for Dessert to Mother Nature''] [Excerpts] Tribunko: How serious is the ecological situation in Chernyakhovskiy rayon? Sakha... |
FBIS3-41467_2 | Official Analyzes Ecological Situation | that nature suffers most of all. The main polluter of our rivers is ... oil! If in southern Belarus -- where oil lies close to the surface -- the outer surface is polluted due to the oil's outlet to the surface, the oil pollution of our remaining areas is caused by the improper use of oil resources. Our water purity re... |
FBIS3-41467_5 | Official Analyzes Ecological Situation | and they had prognosticated much of what we are experiencing today. However, nobody wanted to listen to them then. We have interesting research projects. It is essential to find such economic levers that could make our producers use natural resources rationally. It sounds incredible, but our legislation has no notion o... |
FBIS3-41477_1 | Minister Cites Lack of Progress on Environment | in Ukraine as in the United States at the end of the 1980s, as well as somewhat less coal than in Great Britain, France and the FRG taken together; as much steel as the FRG and France taken together was smelted every year. We have all always taken pride in that, and few gave any thought to the harm being done to nature... |
FBIS3-41478_13 | Pollution Caused by Black Sea Fleet Detailed | washed. But while flights are coordinated with the military and the papers signed, the spill moves into the resort area, which are under special security protection and where environmentalists are not allowed within a rifle shot. Today, with the excuse of an ``unhealthy political situation surrounding the Fleet,'' ship... |
FBIS3-41491_0 | Large Companies Try to Monopolize Trash Market | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by Lutz Bloos: ``Large Outfits Play Monopoly in Waste Market''; [Subhead lines: ``Federal Monopolies Commission Criticizes Increasing Concentration Within Waste Management Sector''; ``Federal Association of German Waste Management Willing to Withdraw Again from DSD'']] [Text] ... |
FBIS3-41492_0 | Status of Wind Power Generation in Germany Summarized Investment in Wind Generation | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Text] By the end of 1992, there were 1,200 wind power installations in Germany. Rated output: 180 MW. Since 1974, the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology [FMRT] has promoted the use of wind energy, about 30 million marks are made available for this purpose annually. [This mak... |
FBIS3-41492_1 | Status of Wind Power Generation in Germany Summarized Investment in Wind Generation | for Research and Technology [FMRT] has promoted the use of wind energy, about 30 million marks are made available for this purpose annually. [This makes] a total of about 300 million German marks thus far--120 marks for large and 100 for small and mid-size installations, the remainder for R&D projects. Goals: acceptabl... |
FBIS3-41493_0 | GDR Documents Reveal New Findings on Seveso | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Andreas Forster: ``Was a Skillful Game of Confusion Staged Concerning 41 Barrels With Poison From Seveso?''] [Text] Documents that are available to BERLINER ZEITUNG show that at least 47 tonnes of dioxin-containing waste from Seveso were stored at the special waste dump in S... |
FBIS3-41496_0 | Institutes Improve Solar Cell Efficiency | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] All over the world, great efforts are being made in various directions to make wider use of solar power. In addition to solar heat collectors, which are primarily used to heat water, solar cells also make it possible to generate electrical current directly from sunlight (photovo... |
FBIS3-41497_0 | Wind Energy Bureau To Open | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Text] Next year the Netherlands will have a National Bureau for Wind Energy. This independent institution will promote the application of wind energy and provide scientific information. A location for the bureau has not yet been decided. The initiative comes from the Organization for L... |
FBIS3-41498_1 | Energy, Environmental Aid Provided to Bulgaria | aid for Central and Eastern Europe. Over the past few days, he has established contacts for projects concerned with the improvement of gas supplies, the generation of electricity, coal vaporization, the cleaner combustion of lignite, and technological training in his country. Bulgaria relies heavily on Russian supplies... |
FBIS3-41501_0 | Toxic Waste From Continent Greatest Threat | Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ole Mathismoen: ``SFT Fears Hidden Environmental Catastrophe''] [Text] Norway's Pollution Authority [SFT] fears that the tolerance threshold for environmental toxins will soon be reached in Norway. ``We are concerned. There are enormous gaps in our knowledge about the ef... |
FBIS3-41501_2 | Toxic Waste From Continent Greatest Threat | to go before crabs can be fished out of the Frie Fjord. But it is entirely within the realm of possibility to get there,'' Rensvik said. While most Norwegian toxic waste has a concrete source that can be identified and cleaned up, it is harder in the case of foreign pollutants. Norwegian pollutants harm one end of a fj... |
FBIS3-41503_1 | Spanish Company Begins Complete Recycling of Cars | system at the Reyfra (Recycling and Wrecking) firm in Mejorada del Campo (population 16,000). It is estimated that from 700,000 to 800,000 vehicles are scrapped every year in our country. After being stripped of their marketable parts and components, those vehicles undergo a partial recycling process that leaves behind... |
FBIS3-41511_1 | Article on Environment Protection Successes China's Environmental Protection Achievements Attract Worldwide Attention Our Country Still Faces Grim Environmental Protection Prospects At a Time of Rapid Economic Development The Entire Country Was Buffeted by the Environmental Protection Wave in 1993 | The agricultural department began experimenting on pollution-free production and made new progress in afforestation on plains and along coastal regions. In particular, the shelter-forest project in the northeast-north-northwest region is known as ``the world's best ecological project.'' -- Success has been achieved in ... |
FBIS3-41538_0 | Water Resources Seminars Held With Kazakhstan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Urumqi, Nov 14 (XINHUA) -- Scientific institutes based in China and Kazakhstan recently held joint seminars on water resources and the environment of Central Asia. The seminars were sponsored by the Xinjiang Geographic Institute, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the A... |
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