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Ministry of Education 2. Repletion of System of Joint Research with the Private Sector 6. Promotion of Test and Applied Research by Means of Subsidies for Scientific Research Expenses "Test Research" 7. Promotion of JSPS "Social Cooperation Scientific Enterprises"
FY92 the foreign magazine centers had accumulated about 19,000 titles of foreign scientific magazines in the four fields; over 500,000 copies per year are made. Furthermore, in order to make research and educational materials more replete, ¥2.4111 billion (FY92, ¥2.32783 billion) are appropriated in FY93 for purchasing...
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Ministry of Education 2. Repletion of System of Joint Research with the Private Sector 6. Promotion of Test and Applied Research by Means of Subsidies for Scientific Research Expenses "Test Research" 7. Promotion of JSPS "Social Cooperation Scientific Enterprises"
General Information Project (GIP)). This subcommittee plans research studies, provides data, sends representatives to intergovernmental conferences, and so forth. In FY93 ¥4.441 million are appropriated for those expenses. In addition, the MOE has been contributing trust funds to UNESCO since FY81 in order to take part...
FBIS3-59753_3
Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
(artificial organ transplants) - genetic treatment (including human gene sequence research) - drug-making technology (drug design, drug delivery systems, etc.) - safety evaluation science (regulatory science, risk management, etc.) - lifestyle support technology (rehabilitation science, welfare, lifestyle machinery, et...
FBIS3-59753_4
Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
research projects in recent years. Projects are arranged in units of disease, i.e., cancer, cardiovascular disorders, mental and neurological disorders, diabetes, kidney failure, rheumatism, dementia, non-A-or-B-type hepatitis, and AIDS. Across-the-board projects are also emerging that are the kind of basic human scien...
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Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
Strategy" was devised. The aim of the "Ten-Year Anti-Cancer Strategy" is to elucidate the true nature of cancer within 10 years. The program promotes advanced cancer research, such as research on oncogenes, by mobilizing intelligence from within and outside; it is an attempt to make those results reflect on the prevent...
FBIS3-59753_12
Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
best use of private-sector energy. Since FY88 it has been promoting that research under the name Basic Human Science Research, which had been called Longevity-Related Basic Scientific Research since FY86. The contents of that research are: 1) biotechnology applications and the development of evaluation technology, whic...
FBIS3-59753_19
Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
new medical technology (1) Expenses for 225,772 226,155 Research on the research on the development and development of new dissemination of new medical technology medical technology (Expenses for (200,000) (200,000) research on new medical technology) (Expenses for (25,772) (26,155) enterprises promoting the developmen...
FBIS3-59753_22
Ministry of Health and Welfare 5. Investment and Loan System for R&D of Pharmaceuticals, etc.
promoting research with long-term prospects for the 21st century. Table 3. Summary of MHW Research Organizations Name of organization Projects Institute of Population Problems Research studies on population problems Institute of Public Health Education and training of public health technicians Research studies on the a...
FBIS3-59754_4
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries B. Implementation of R&D To Cope with Important Policy Issues 3. R&D To Cope with Global Environmental and Tropical Agriculture Problems C. Strengthening Basic and Pioneering Research and Promoting Research Exchange 2. Promoting Research Exchange and Supporting Private-Se...
To Cope with Global Environmental and Tropical Agriculture Problems The MAFF will carry out R&D that will contribute to solving global-scale environmental problems such as global warming, desertification, and the decline of tropical rainforests. In addition, the MAFF will invite researchers from developing countries an...
FBIS3-59754_5
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries B. Implementation of R&D To Cope with Important Policy Issues 3. R&D To Cope with Global Environmental and Tropical Agriculture Problems C. Strengthening Basic and Pioneering Research and Promoting Research Exchange 2. Promoting Research Exchange and Supporting Private-Se...
by building upon the remarkable developments of advanced technologies in recent years, the MAFF will strengthen basic and pioneering research, starting with rice genome analytical research, and will continue to promote research exchange and support private-sector R&D. 1. Strengthening Basic and Pioneering Research (1) ...
FBIS3-59755_12
Ministry of International Trade and Industry 3. Formulation of a Five-Year Plan for Maintenance of MITI Research Facilities 1. Establishment of the Industrial S&T Frontier Program (ISTF) 2. Comprehensive Energy/Environmental Technology Development Promotion Projects (New Sunshine Project) 3. Promotion of R&D of Medical...
related to environmental technology, etc., based on the Energy-Conservation and Recycling Support Law - Extension of the system of special tax deductions in cases where the amount of test research expenses increased, etc. - Extension of the tax system for facilitating basic technology R&D - Extension of the special sys...
FBIS3-59756_3
Ministry of Transport 1. Research on Structural Safety Evaluation To Accommodate Lighter-Weight Ships 2. Research on Aircraft Monitoring Methods for Shorter Vertical Control Intervals 3. Research on Advanced Earthquake-Resistant Design Methods for Seaside Facilities To Withstand Strong Earthquakes Directly Beneath Toky...
Research at Major Research Institutes Table 2 shows the items implemented as special research in FY93, centering on MOT research institutes. This table also includes research items based on budgets appropriated in lump sums for other ministries and agencies and special accounts. Below we will explain those items that w...
FBIS3-59757_18
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications B. Promotion of Pioneering R&D in the Field of Telecommunications D. Major FY93 Research Efforts at the Communications Research Laboratory 1. R&D of Advanced Satellite Communications and Broadcast Technology 2. Research on a Next-Generation Communications-Broadcast R&D Satellite...
characteristics that electromagnetic waves have in optical regions, and the R&D of optical communications using spatially propagated signals that do not degrade under poor atmospheric conditions, such as fog. During FY93 the MPT will maintain the receiving sections that will be used in model communications experiments ...
FBIS3-59763_0
Shape Memory Alloys Find Multiple Uses
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Crumple a sheet of aluminum foil and then heat it up. Nothing changes. Now do the same thing with a sheet formed from a shape-memory alloy. The crumpled mass unfolds into a sheet again. Shape-memory alloys are among the most fascinating of new materials for this unique ability ...
FBIS3-59765_1
MITI To Aid Plastic Processing Industry's Expansion in Asia
expansion of the plastic processing industry in Asia, acting mainly through ASEAN. The plastic processing industry has many small and mid-sized companies, and business expansion on a global scale has lagged behind other industries. In addition to its current measures to combat the high value of the yen, MITI has decide...
FBIS3-59776_0
Calcium Diffused Ceramics for Artificial Bone Developed
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Text]A group led by professor Takaichi Kubo at the Department of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, has successfully diffused calcium into a substrate of oxide ceramic by using laser implantation. Laser implantation employs a laser to diffuse substances on the surface of a m...
FBIS3-59783_2
Present Status and Trend of Electric Vehicles
Meanwhile, MMC has performed a series of research and development on EVs as shown in Table 1. This research was initially commenced in 1966 when they started the development and research of basic technologies for the vehicle propelling electric motor, battery, etc. which are EV's basic components. Beginning with the de...
FBIS3-59786_1
The Institute of Applied Energy Releases Mid- to Long-Term Vision for the Next 5 Years
providing the most far-sighted and best possible research to meet the demands of both the public and private sector. In terms of business activities, the institute is involved with the following: (1) Collecting and evaluating data on energy technologies (2) Conducting surveys on energy technologies and setting directio...
FBIS3-59791_21
Progress in Optical Fiber Production Technology
it is necessary for the fibers to be aligned as precisely as possible. For this alignment, the sides of the fibers are illuminated, and their position is thereby confirmed for proper alignment during splicing. Confirmation of core position is conducted automatically through image processing based on information from a ...
FBIS3-59795_1
Editorial Expresses High Regard for STA's New Director General's Proposal for International Management of Plutonium
cons and other problems of nuclear energy, where emotions have tended to take precedence in the past. The overall nuclear picture in the international community consists of the United States, which touts nuclear non-proliferation but wears the armor of global strategy which is visible under its robe, China and several ...
FBIS3-59800_7
FY94 Nuclear Energy Related Budget Proposal Nuclear Energy Budget Proposal Tables
Waste Disposal radioactive waste Measures disposal system. 6. General 4 4 Training and Expenses for Administration nuclear power related employees. TOTAL 276 287 Compared to preceding FY: 104.0% (NOTES: Unit is ¥1 million) III. MITI/Diversification Account of Electric Power Resource Development Special Account I...
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FY94 Nuclear Energy Related Budget Proposal Nuclear Energy Budget Proposal Tables
114 Central and East IAEA European support contribution to IAEA. 5. Electric Power Resource Regional Promotion Policy (Siting Policy) (a) Electric Power 34,872 28,285 Facilities in regions Resource Site around power generation Promotion Policy facilities. Grant (b) Grant to Regions 21,338 21,407 Granting of benefits to...
FBIS3-59803_1
Saddam, Rafsanjani Said Preparing for Summit
'Ali Mohammadi, the official responsible for the Iraqi committee in Khamene'i's office, to limit the activities of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq [SAIRI], led by Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim. These tribunals attended diligently to the tasks Khamene'i himself assigned to them, in al-Hakim's ...
FBIS3-59804_1
Rafsanjani Considers Saudis Key to His Success
and to send Velayati on a mission, the purpose of which stretches beyond the diplomatic reasons given at the time, namely the improvement of relations between the Gulf states and Iran and concern for regional security. The study, which was surrounded by great secrecy, referred quite plainly and clearly to the enormous ...
FBIS3-59805_1
Islamic Groups: Similarities, Relationships Noted
announced the impending release of the hostages. Scapegoat The Islamist operation was spectacular, all the more so because it crowned a series of attacks against foreigners, carried out within one month, in every corner of Algeria, by the GIA or the related GUD (Jihad United Group). What is the reason for this general ...
FBIS3-59813_0
Official Announces Plans for Uranium Production
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Muhammad 'Asim] [Text] Dr. Nabil al-Hadhiq, head of the Atomic Energy Authority, said that four locations of granite rocks have been discovered and designated for the first time in Sinai and in the eastern desert. The rocks contain 15,000 tons of uranium, the production of ...
FBIS3-59815_9
Alleged Support for Saddam by Kurdish Leaders, Citizens
suffer a setback because it is the banner of right and justice. It is surrounded by the hearts of brave Iraqis and Kurds and all the brotherly minorities within the framework of a united and integrated homeland. Sabri Ghulam, branch secretary of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party. said: I would like to remind the agents a...
FBIS3-59816_0
Negative Role, Objectives of Orientalists Discussed
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Sinan 'Abd-al-Jabbar Abu-Kalal] [Text] Iraq and the Arab nation are experiencing, in these very days, a unique state of nationalist awakening and national awareness, and a feeling of historical steadfastness in a nearly unique way. It is different from other such instances ...
FBIS3-59817_6
Islamic Al-Da'wah Party's Ideology Analyzed
slogan truthfully and sincerely is a linked agent, whether or not he is actually linked, because he must always swim in an international environment created by colonialism, act on the basis of the arrogant powers' policy and interests, and advocate the colonialist imports of democracy, socialism, nationalism, communism...
FBIS3-59820_2
Relocation of Institutions in Baghdad Called Political
circular city, Baghdad--the city of peace. He chose for it the western bank of the Tigris River, thus letting the river stand as a defense line separating his capital from the other peoples to the north and the east and leaving his back open to the desert. This is the geographic position of the al-Karkh side, or of al-...
FBIS3-59829_4
Hizballah Leaders, Motives, Troubles Scrutinized Fadlallah's Role, Motives Questioned
throughout the period of the confrontation between Iran and the West. Hizballah, which needed a spiritual guide in Lebanon, was the vehicle by means of which Fadlallah played that role. Furthermore, Sayyid Fadlallah did not offer his positions to the party free of charge. He rather tried to implant himself within the p...
FBIS3-59835_6
Construction Projects, Contract Details The Man-Made River Project, Water Conduit or Underground Weapons Plant?
between Thailand and the United States. The United States frequently likes to use the GSP issue as a bargaining chip. What this means is that the government gives greater weight to exporters than to those who send workers abroad or to Thai workers who are trying to making a living abroad. There is a good chance that th...
FBIS3-59836_8
Petroleum Minister Discusses OPEC Prices, Iraq
petroleum market. I believe the OPEC countries will allow Iraq to resume its quota. As to when Iraq will return and what effect that will have, these matters are hard to predict fully right now, though our hope is that sanctions will be lifted from Iraq and it will be able to resume exporting petroleum. ['Abd-al-Ghani]...
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Shura Analyzed by Prominent Arab Personalities `Consultation, Islamic Method of Representation,' by Shaykh 'Abdallah Ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, speaker of the Yemeni House of Representatives `Saudi Role in Gulf Scene Strengthens Its Arab Leadership' by al-Shadhili al-Qulaybi `Concerning Shura and Change,' by Munah al-Solh, L...
Islam rejected that from the beginning. Democracy in Israel today is democracy that the West introduced to it. It is also democracy based on race. The Jew enjoys democracy; the non-Jew has no right to it, while the oriental Jew has a reduced kind. The West today pursues a selective position vis-a-vis democracy. It dema...
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Shura Analyzed by Prominent Arab Personalities `Consultation, Islamic Method of Representation,' by Shaykh 'Abdallah Ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, speaker of the Yemeni House of Representatives `Saudi Role in Gulf Scene Strengthens Its Arab Leadership' by al-Shadhili al-Qulaybi `Concerning Shura and Change,' by Munah al-Solh, L...
in various forms from the Maghreb nations to the eastern countries. In Egypt, a strong modernization movement was led by Imam Muhammad 'Abdu, which had a connection with what was, at that time, called the Wahabiyya Movement, especially on the rational side, which eschewed the superstitions that had been affixed to the ...
FBIS3-59844_2
Columnist Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Policy
nations, which advocate the cause of democracy and human rights, have never raised any protest against such incidents. The Middle East problem is the most complex issue in the world at present. But the U.S. Administration has adopted a dual policy regarding this issue. The largest human rights organization of the Unite...
FBIS3-59850_3
Rafsanjani's Battles With Radicals Explained
'Abdi will be tried for violating the publishing and press code or for having defamed the president and ministers, or whether he will face charges unrelated to his mission. However, Mohammad Musavi-Kho'iniha, the director of SALAM, and spiritual leader of the students following the line of the imam, who held the Americ...
FBIS3-59851_6
Leadership Structure, Dynamics, Allegiances Explained
who rely on the leader of the revolution, not to mention the Armed Forces, including the Army, Revolution Guard, gendarmerie, and police, who are directly subordinate to his leadership. These matters must be taken into account by anyone who wishes truly to understand the course of present events in Iran. In my opinion,...
FBIS3-59852_0
Regime Policies Viewed in Context of Words, Deeds
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by Amir Tahiri: "The Iranian Policies...in Context of Words and Deeds"] [Text] According to what has been reported, the mullahs [clerics] in Iran have started a "friendly" offensive in order to end the diplomatic isolation of their country and to attract foreign capital, as we...
FBIS3-59853_4
Radical Political Change Prescribed for Economic Ills
war with Iraq. The mullahs did not gain absolute hold on power until mid-1981 by which time Iran was involved in a full-fledged war with Iraq. Furthermore, many transgressions took place during the early stages of the revolutions. Tens of thousands of Iranian managers, experts, and businessmen were executed, exiled, or...
FBIS3-59870_1
Turkey Called Subservient to U.S. Interests
move to this effect will be met by an unannounced reaction by the coalition forces to impede the Turkish move in this direction. The Kurdish card will be one of the most powerful cards used to pressure the Turkish government and prevent it from resuming full relations with Iraq. Other cards that can be used against the...
FBIS3-59873_0
Achievements, UNSC Oppressions Detailed
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by 'Abd-al-Jabbar Muhsin: "An Accounting of Failures"] [Text] Iraq cuts the lifeline to the south. Iraq blockades the north. Iraq impoverishes the central region. What is this Iraq that works against its south, north, and everything in between? What is this Iraq that works aga...
FBIS3-59874_0
Iraqi Versus Foreign View of Kurdish Rights Stated
Language: Arabic Article Type:CSO [Article by 'Abd-al-Jabbar Muhsin: "Rights of the Kurds"] [Text] What rights does any national minority want in any country? The impostors of "the Kurdish struggle"--traitorous groups--have never raised this question, nor has it been raised by the nations that pretend to be concerned a...
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Iraqi Versus Foreign View of Kurdish Rights Stated
branches nourish themselves on the facts of the age. The rights of the Kurds came from the position of the state's power and ability--politically, economically, and militarily--above all else. The Kurds are Iraqi citizens first, and therefore they have the rights and duties of every citizen. The rights of the Kurds beg...
FBIS3-59876_3
Realism Advised: No `Magical Solution' to Problems
the dollar in the name of breaking the economic sanctions. Is the Central Bank capable of intervening to regulate dollar rates? Is it possible for the government to establish a large financial institution, under current conditions, to buy dollars when needed and maintain the market price? Perhaps the Central Bank has a...
FBIS3-59877_2
Party Standards Called Model for Government Offices
the student and pupil, but for other reasons basically material. I am looking for doctors who do not give a patient in their private clinics more than they give to one in the government hospital and the people's clinic--doctors who do not force the patient to return three times to the private clinic for diagnosis and g...
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Party Standards Called Model for Government Offices
and overlook their truancy from school or lack of diligence. Party work had a sanctity, and the party official was an object of respect: such was secret party life in Iraq. Thus it was and thus it ought to be in public life, but society's shortcomings have left their mark on the life of many party figures from the poin...
FBIS3-59880_0
Treasury To Compensate Laid-Off Aircraft Workers
Language: Hebrew Article Type:CSO [Article by Arye Egozi] [Text] The management of Aircraft Industries (AI) will begin sending pink slips next week to 2,900 of the company's workers. This is part of the framework of the new work agreement that was initialled day before yesterday.The management intends to finish the mas...
FBIS3-59884_3
Al-'Adhl Discusses Solar, Nuclear Energy
removed from bureaucracy and red tape. Other projects we have include an earthquake-observation network and the lunaproject. We also have the Research and Computer Institute, which has Arabic-language programs. We have a project to train the disabled to use computers. We also have several activities connected with auto...
FBIS3-59903_10
CW Destruction Investigated by ROSSIYA
and camps and more than 1,000 elderly Uzbeks who were not fit to go to the front and spoke Russian poorly. Less than 300 of them returned to Uzbekistan--the rest were buried in the Chapayevsk city cemetery. And more than 500 people fled that same year (out from under the wing of Lavrentiy Beriya's department!). The "Th...
FBIS3-59946_0
Arms Control Efforts Foreign Minister Launches Initiative
Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP) -- Germany's Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has launched a German initiative aimed at combating the threatened proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. A 10-point paper published today by the Foreign Ministry in Bonn calls on all those states which have not yet si...
FBIS3-59964_0
Strategies To Counter Drug Addiction in Northern Border States Discussed
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] Owing primarily to the damaging influence of U.S. visitors and of Mexican emigrants returning to their places of origin, during the past five years a considerable rise has been observed in drug consumption. It involves mainly the so-called hard drugs (cocaine, morphine, heroin,...
FBIS3-59972_1
New Society for Prevention, Treatment of Drug Abuse Established
a matter of great urgency to begin the prevention and treatment of drug abuse in our country. According to the convention, drug abuse is a social problem that endangers public health and is one which faces the international community. The WHO lists drug abuse as the abuse of anesthetics, medicines for psychiatric treat...
FBIS3-59979_0
Police View Operations of African Traffickers
Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Text] In an effort to round up foreigners who had entered the country illegally and who were thought to be engaged in criminal activities here, at the beginning of November metropolitan police raided several apartments and rented houses. When police searched an apartment in the Pratu Na...
FBIS3-59983_0
African Traffickers Use of Third Country Passports Detailed
Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] At 1130 hours on 13 November at the Customs Department, Don Muang Airport, from an investigation conducted by Mr. Suphachai Phisetthawanit, the director-general of the Customs Department, it was learned that narcotics traffickers were planning to smuggle a shi...
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Drug Violations Increasing in Helsinki Area
drugs have dropped, which makes it possible for even more people to use them. Heroin dominates more markets since it is now available for smoking in addition to intravenous injection. Many users avoid needles because of the danger of AIDS, among other reasons. Meanwhile, nearly forgotten, LSD has made a comeback on the...
FBIS3-59998_5
Drug Violations Increasing in Helsinki Area
not ordinarily a life-threatening drug, but it alienates the user from reality. ``Cannabis users relate to their environment in an unreal manner. They think that they are smarter than other people, but it's hard for an outsider to notice that they are. A person who smokes hashish generally withdraws into himself and is...
FBIS3-59999_0
Drug-Related Deaths Down, Number of First-Time Cocaine Users Up
Language: German Article Type:CSO [Article by Matina Fietz: ``Fewer Drug-Related Deaths and New Heroin Users; More Take Cocaine''] [Text] The number of drug-related deaths in Germany is declining. In the first 11 months of this year, 1,458 people died as a result of drug consumption. That is a 22-percent drop compared ...
FBIS3-60001_1
Hamburg Hosts Conference on Drug Problem in Europe's Cities
Hamburg, the myth of all-destructive cocaine was to be refuted. If one may give credence to the experts in attendance, then the horror stories about the misery allegedly brought on by cocaine and the cocaine product, crack, to entire city sections in the United States, are wrong. John Morgan of New York avowed that ``t...
FBIS3-60005_0
Ineffectiveness of City's Drug Treatment Viewed
Language: Swedish Article Type:CSO [Article by Lova Olsson: ``Forced Treatment Without Effect''] [Text] The forced treatment of heavy drug users in the city of Stockholm has a very bad effect. Most of them continue to use narcotics after the treatment period--although the most important objective of the expensive care ...
FBIS3-60007_1
Conference Considers Measures Against Drug Addiction, Trafficking
to address this issue,'' said Mr. Harut'yunyan. ``It is essential to carry out fundamental and consistent work efforts.'' The participants in the conference presented their views on the subject. Republic of Armenia Minister of Health Ara Babloyan stated that last year his ministry had submitted to the government a numb...
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Conference Considers Measures Against Drug Addiction, Trafficking
the Ministry of Internal Affairs considers it essential to pass a new law, which should specify a number of important provisions: drug addiction must be differentiated from drug trafficking, and Article 44 of the Code of Administrative Violations must be revised. Mr. Aslanyan also stressed the importance of establishin...
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Conference Considers Measures Against Drug Addiction, Trafficking
not comparable to one another, but both are alien to our national character.'' It is absolutely essential to eradicate the causes of this evil. For this reason the establishment of a substantial, well-designed program is considered a prerequisite. It is very important that each and every citizen realize that he cannot ...
FBIS3-60008_5
`Rapid' Increase in Nation's Drug Problems Examined
The process of bringing the campaign in Armenia into conformity with the requirements of the convention has now commenced. First of all, international experience must be taken into consideration. A draft national plan to combat drug trafficking is presently being formulated: it provides for the formation of certain str...
FBIS3-60016_7
Wasmosy Discusses Army Commander's `Power,' Narcotics
involved in drug trafficking or money laundering if I do not have evidence. If you tell me who is guilty of these crimes and bring the evidence against the person then it is my responsibility to follow it up, but in the meantime I cannot prejudge. Ruffinelli: Engineer, please allow me to mention some figures that are o...
FBIS3-60018_0
Colombian Cooperation Allows Detection of Airplane Carrying Drugs
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Swift contact between the Peruvian and Colombian Air Forces permitted the detection of a light airplane belonging to Colombian drug traffickers in Peruvian territory. FAP [Peruvian Air Force] fighters destroyed the plane because its crew refused to obey the orders of the Peruvi...
FBIS3-60025_0
Editorial Urges Greater Regional Cooperation To Stem Drug Trade
Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Burmese Troops Are Crushing Khun Sa"] [Text] The Burmese Government has sent its ground and air forces to mop up the ethnic minority troops under the command of Khun Sa. Heavy clashes have been reported since December inside of Burma, opposite the Thai border at Chiang Mai a...
FBIS3-60031_0
Finance Ministry Source Says Law To Curb Money Laundering `Unlikely'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] In a bid to curb money laundering in Thailand, Washington has pressed Bangkok to introduce a law forcing money spenders and depositors to declare the source of funds. A Finance Ministry source said that US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen is expected to repeat the call at his m...
FBIS3-60041_0
Ministry Dismisses Magazine's Linkage of Kurdish Terrorists, Iranian Drug Traffickers
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, December 30 (BTA) -- The Ministry of the Interior tonight denied a story in the TEMPO magazine of Ankara, alleging that members of a Kurdish terrorist organization were based in Bulgaria. "The Ministries of Bulgaria and Turkey have signed a cooperation agreement and exch...
FBIS3-60044_1
Statistics on Drug Seizures in 1993 Published
the border and 27 times inside the country. The police found less than 20 grams of drugs on dealers and consumers on 45 occasions. The police and the Customs Office together confiscated on 62 occasions 427 kgs of heroin, 253 kgs of hashish (a quarter of a ton of this was found in a truck in one consignment), 10 kgs of ...
FBIS3-60045_0
Turkish `Gray Wolves' Terrorists Reportedly Involved in Heroin Trafficking
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Alain Lallemand: "Turkish Extreme Right, Ankara's Objective Ally"] [Text] Who are these "Gray Wolves" in Belgium which Interior Minister Louis Tobback is accusing of leading the anti-Kurd demonstrations of recent days? Their official name is "Turk-islam Federasyonu" or "Bel...
FBIS3-60054_0
`No Clear Explanation' for Decrease in Oslo Overdose Deaths
Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ole Martin Bjorklid: "Fewer Overdose Deaths in Oslo"] [Text] The number of deaths caused by drug abuse has decreased sharply in Oslo this year. In Drammen on the other hand, the number of such deaths has doubled. So far this year 42 people have been found dead in Oslo fr...
FBIS3-60059_8
Interpol Chief on Fight Against Narcotics
users (as opposed to peddlers) can theoretically choose between treatment or prison. Kendall: Yes, but this law is not being enforced through a lack of means. How many places are available in the specialized centers that can provide treatment for drug addicts? Ten, 20 times as many would be required in order to be effe...
FBIS3-60064_0
Armed Forces Demand `Total Control' Over U.S. Funds Earmarked for Antidrug Fight
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] La Paz, 15 Dec (ANF) -- Defense Minister Antonio Cespedes and General Moises Schirique, joint chief of staff, have demanded "total control" over the U.S. funds that come to the country as military assistance and within the framework of bilateral agreements to fight drug traffic...
FBIS3-60072_0
New Senad Executive Secretary Installed
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Retired Brigadier General Juan Ramon Rosa Rodriguez was installed this morning as the new National Antinarcotics Secretariat (Senad) executive secretary, replacing Division General Mario Escobar Anzoategui, who tendered his resignation last year. Rosa Rodriguez ia a militar...
FBIS3-60078_2
East Asia Narcotics Roundup for 10-16 January
94 pp 1, 4) Nigerians Arrested at Karachi Airport With 5.6 Kg of Heroin The Customs Drug Enforcement Cell arrested two Nigerian nationals at the Karachi airport after finding 5.6 kg of heroin powder in their bags. (Karachi DAWN in English 12 Jan 94 p 5) Heroin Seized From Packages in Postal Systems Customs officers hav...
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Turkish `Gray Wolves' Terrorists Reportedly Involved in Heroin Trafficking
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Alain Lallemand: "Turkish Extreme Right, Ankara's Objective Ally"] [Text] Who are these "Gray Wolves" in Belgium which Interior Minister Louis Tobback is accusing of leading the anti-Kurd demonstrations of recent days? Their official name is "Turk-islam Federasyonu" or "Bel...
FBIS3-60108_0
`No Clear Explanation' for Decrease in Oslo Overdose Deaths
Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ole Martin Bjorklid: "Fewer Overdose Deaths in Oslo"] [Text] The number of deaths caused by drug abuse has decreased sharply in Oslo this year. In Drammen on the other hand, the number of such deaths has doubled. So far this year 42 people have been found dead in Oslo fr...
FBIS3-60116_0
Potential for Expanding Drug Transit Routes Through Russia Viewed
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Natan Zablotskis, Scientific Research Institute of the Russia Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Dmitriy Oreshkin, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences: "Another Base for Drug Trade?"] [Text] Russia possesses an enormous potential for drug pr...
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Army, Police Stage Pilot Antidrug Operation in Rio
been foreseen by the formulators of military strategies. The document predicted that "at the start of the coming century," a "contingent of dropouts, criminals, and even murderers" would be harassing the state police forces to such an extent that the latter would "ask the Armed Forces to help by taking over the tough t...
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PGR Faults Judges for Trafficker's Releases
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] Mexico City, D.F., 22 December (SUN)--The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic [PGR] held a judge and a magistrate responsible for the release, three years ago, of the presumed drug trafficker, Amado Carrillo Fuentes. It claimed that he was freed even though the Feder...
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PJF Seizures of Hashish, Cocaine, Ephedrine Detailed
heavy-caliber firearms, over 1,000 cartridges, and 32 automotive vehicles equipped for transporting drugs. According to the briefing reports sent to the Federal Judicial Police [PJF] General Directorate, headed by Commander Adrian Carrera Fuentes, the most significant operation took place in the warehouses of a transpo...
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100 Kg of Ephedrine, 679 Kg of Marijuana Seized From Tomato Shipment
Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Rocio Galvan] [Text] Tijuana, Baja California, 21 December--A shipment of 100 kg of ephedrine, a basic compound for processing the cocaine derivative known as "crack," was seized, together with 679 kg of marijuana. They were being transported on two trucks apparently loade...
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Editorial Calls for `Official Explanation' of DEA Presence, Activities
the Vienna Convention, the host country grants immunity to representatives of the governments with whom it maintains relations. The Vienna Convention establishes that it is not necessary for an embassy to inform a host government on the functions of its embassy personnel because it is understood that their activities w...
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Survey Notes Drug Consumption Among Youth
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Montevideo EL OBSERVADOR ECONOMICO in Spanish on 14 January publishes on page 25 an unattributed 500-word article on the results of a study on drug consumption among youngsters. The article says that a study released by the National Board for the Prevention of the Illegal Traffic and...
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38 Kg of Marijuana Seized, Two Arrested
Language: Thai Article Type:CSO [Text] At 0200 hours on 6 December 1993, Police Lieutenant Colonel Samphan Inthai, the commander of Border Patrol Police [BPP] Company 226 in Phibun Mangsahan District, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Police Captain Sakda Tochongmon, the deputy company commander, and Police 2d Lieutenant Sing...
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Motorists Driving Under Influence of Drugs Prompts Concern
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Unattributed article: "Cannabis Found in 10 Percent of Driver Samples"] [Text] Traces of cannabis were found in blood tests taken from almost 10 percent of drivers stopped by Reykjavik police on suspicion of drunk driving during the second half of 1992 and the first six months of 199...
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Country Described as `Middle' for Drug Trafficking Routes
to Europe. The opium produced in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, which are known as the Golden Crescent countries, is transported through Turkey to Europe, either through highways or sea ports. The production of narcotic substances significantly increased in the region after the Soviet Union collapsed. For example, th...
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Papers Give Results of Drug-Use Surveys Heavier Users Wealthy
in Nottingham, Bradford, Lewisham, south London, and Glasgow, estimates that about one in five people in Britain has taken an illegal drug during his life, with much higher levels of drug-taking among people aged between 16 and 25. One in 15 had recently used an illegal drug. Between 14 and 24 per cent of people questi...
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Papers Give Results of Drug-Use Surveys Spreading to Countryside
Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Hugh Muir] [Text] Rural teenagers are now as steeped in the drugs culture as their urban counterparts, according to a Home Office-backed study. New research conducted in East Sussex indicates that the level of knowledge displayed by young people in the country is generally...
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Power Industry To Focus on Reducing Pollution
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Chang Weimin: "State Vows To Reduce Pollution"] [Text] China's power industry is to concentrate on the development of resources that produce less pollution than coal-fired generators. Efforts to tap hydro and wind resources will be encouraged, according to an official from the Min...
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Power Industry To Focus on Reducing Pollution
40.7 million kilowatts. The industry expects to increase its power generating capacity to 310 million kilowatts in 2000 from the present 170 million kilowatts. The majority of electricity in China is generated by coal-fired power plants, which emit minute sulphur particles that contaminate the environment. But several ...
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`Enlightened' Timber Industry Seeks Environmentally Conscious Investors
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Rangoon, Dec 24 (AFP) -- The Burmese timber industry, the country's leading foreign exchange earner, is actively courting foreign investors while promoting sound ecological principles. And its forestry conservation practices have enabled the government to reap rare accolades fr...
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Report Claims Success for Restrictions on Toxic Paint
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Dec 15 KYODO -- A government report on toxic chemical residues in the environment in 1992 claims the Environment Agency's restrictions on use of toxic tin compounds in paint on boat keels are beginning to have an effect. The compounds are blamed for contaminating marine ...
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Fishery Agency To Probe Global Warming in North Pacific
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan 6 KYODO -- Japan will dispatch a research ship to the North Pacific on a one-month mission to investigate the cause of the global warming phenomenon, the Fishery Agency said Thursday [6 January]. The 2,000-ton Kaiyo Maru will set out Friday on the mission that is par...
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Indigenous Group Concerned About Lake Contamination
national production. During 1991, the atherine production amounted to 2,600 tons. In 1992, 90 percent of the fishing fauna disappeared, and in 1993 there is nothing to fish for, as the indigenous leader explained. He said that this proved to be a difficult situation of those living in the Murato settlements. The indige...
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Multilateral Talks Agreement on Agricultural Projects
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Cairo, 15 Dec (MENA)--A working group formed by the Middle East Multilateral Talks Economic Development Committee ended its meetings in Cairo today. It approved several projects that will be implemented in cooperation with the EC and Middle Eastern countries. The Cairo meetin...
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Developing Countries' Export of CFCs Urged
Nath lays down his office as chairman of the bureau at the end of his one-year term today. Mr Kamal Nath said that the provisions of the protocol should be so amended that the early reduction of ODS did not become a disincentive. In fact, such efforts needed to be recognised and rewarded, rather than be allowed to beco...
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Caspian Littoral States Urged To Coordinate Ecological Efforts
Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Vladimir Kuleshov: "The Aral's Fate for the Caspian?"] [Text] Ashgabat--O. Ovezgeldyyev, the author of the concept of a long-term program of research into the problems of the Caspian and well-known Turkmen academician, declares: "Unless an international center coordinating...
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European Union's Research Projects in Chernobyl Region Viewed
Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed J.-P.D.: "Sixteen Research Projects In Cooperation With the European Union"] [Text] Many companies are already cooperating with the authorities in the Chernobyl region. A research center -- the CHERCIR [Chernobyl Center for International Research] -- has opened at the s...