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Delegation Visits Indonesia, Burma, Thailand To Discuss Drug
Issues BK0204085394 Hanoi Voice of Vietnam Network in Vietnamese 1430 GMT 1 Apr 94 BK0204085394 Hanoi Voice of Vietnam Network Vietnamese BFN [Text] A delegation of the State Commission for Ethnic Minorities and Mountain Region led by Minister Hoang Duc Nghi has been paying a working visit to Thailand since Mar 28. The...
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Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
to which a person subjects himself voluntarily. But drug addiction is also a crime, for narcotic substances are not freely available for sale, and the acquisition, use, storage and transmission to other persons comprise all the elements of a crime. The very worst thing is that the ranks of drug addiction are being fill...
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Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
"circle." The experience of our narcological service shows that a drug addict either turns to crime, or suffers withdrawal symptoms, or takes an excessive dose. The costs of narcotics are continually increasing, and that means their use is growing and expanding as well. The drug business is a very profitable one, and o...
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Internal Affairs Ministry Conference Examines Azerbaijan's
the day he becomes an addict, and during all this time he is not in a vacuum or in isolation. Frequently this takes place in the eyes of his parents, teachers or fellow-workers. Hospital treatment of drug addicts is also one of the problems facing the republic health care system. I must report with bitterness that the ...
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Editorial Supports President, Criticizes U.S. Ambassador
traffickers, who distribute the product among consumers. According to official announcements, there are still 1,900 hectares of coca farms to be eradicated--of the 4,500 the previous government had promised to eradicate by 31 March--and it is obvious that in the week before the deadline's expiration it will be impossib...
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Congress Probing Reports of Cocaine-Prostitute Exchanges on
Bolivian Border PY0804190694 Madrid EFE in Spanish 1532 GMT 7 Apr 94 PY0804190694 Madrid EFE Spanish BFN [Text] Brasilia, 7 Apr (EFE) -- Congressional sources today told EFE that the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating reports on the exchange of young prostitutes for cocaine on the Brazilian border with Boli...
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Arrested Trafficker Reveals New Alliance in Rio
"`Caninana' said that the PM officers were killed because traffickers in the shantytown have a radio on which they listen to Military Police transmissions. So `Flavio Negao' knew that the police officers were headed for Catole do Rocha Square," the police chief said. According to Oliveira, the only motive given by "Can...
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Autopsy Reportedly Finds Traces of Drugs in Dead U.S. Officer
BFN [From the "Up-to-Date" newscast] [Text] The U.S. military man who died while playing with a hand grenade had taken three types of drugs, an autopsy has revealed. Dr. Juan Mateo Llort, director of the Forensic Medicine Institute, has confirmed that a toxicological examination on the body of U.S. Lieutenant Colonel J...
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Drug Trafficking, Usage in Western Provinces Described
CSO [Editorial Report] An article in Beijing XIAOFEI SHIBAO in Chinese on 24 January 1994 presents an overview of drug use in China's western provinces. The article begins with statistics indicating the scope of the drug problem in China's western cities. In Xining, there are over 1,000 registered drug users. Xian has ...
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Drug Dealing, Extortion by Kurds Viewed
to accommodate the people smuggled by Kurdish gangs: Kurds who ask for asylum here are entitled to accommodation, food, and clothing. Those who entered the country illegally easily found refuge with clan members, friends, or relatives. The commander and secretary general of the Marxist-Leninist "cadre party," PKK, is A...
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Article Notes `Objectivity' in Report
traffickers, and there was broad evidence of its efforts begun in mid-1989 which curbed drug trafficking." Later, on 12 April 1993, a NOTIMEX wire dispatch reported: "A U.S. State Department report published earlier this month recognizes Cuba's cooperation in controlling drug trafficking in 1992." "The Cuban Government...
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Editorial Criticizes `Inconsistency' of Report
surrender. U.S. officials can hardly condemn this practice, however, when it is a daily practice in U.S. courts for prosecutors to offer the accused, whether or not they are narcotraffickers, more lenient sentences, acquittals, and even money and protection in exchange for information. Continuing with the examples, the...
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Central Bank President: No Indications Money Laundering
and exchange houses, and there are no large-scale operations indicating to us that money laundering is taking place," he said. Taboada said that based on the stability observed in bank transactions, there is no possibility that "money laundering" is done that way. "For example, there is no evidence huge amounts of mone...
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Editorial Criticizes Report, U.S. Drug Policy
to control. Despite U.S. antagonism and Iran's own financial and technological limitations, the Islamic Republic continues to do its best to combat drug smuggling through its territory. Iran's Interior, Minister Mohamad Besharati, today announced the completion of a 30 Kilometer trench along Iran's eastern border where...
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Editorial Criticizes Report, U.S. Drug Policy
cosmetic and were initiated as political ploys for attracting votes just before elections were due to be held. The most ludicrous and useless of these anti-drug campaigns was launched by the former U.S. first lady, Nancy Reagan, who coined the phrase "Just say no" in the naive belief that school children will be able t...
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Judge Orders Forensic Chief's Silence on Death of U.S.
`Adviser' PA1504230994 San Salvador DIARIO LATINO in Spanish 14 Apr 94 p 24 PA1504230994 San Salvador DIARIO LATINO Spanish BFN [Text] First Criminal Judge Luis Antonio Villeda today instructed Forensic Institute Director Dr. Juan Mateu Llort to refrain from making any statements on the death of U.S. adviser Julio Ramo...
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Tamil Nadu Police Accused of Manipulating Narcotics Law To
`Intimidate' Judiciary 94WD0300A Bombay THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA in English 20 Feb 94 p 9 94WD0300A Bombay THE SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA English CSO [Text] Madras, Feb. 19--The recent arrest of a judge's son-in-law on the charge [of] smuggling ganja has focused public attention on the credibility of the Tamil Nadu police ...
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Officials Fear `Record' Number of Drug-Related Deaths in 1994
BFN [Unattributed report: ``Number of Drug Deaths Skyrocketing''] [Excerpt] Vienna -- This year police have already registerd 49 drug deaths in Vienna. Throughout last year there were 103 deaths from drugs in the capital (173 in all Austria). As a result of the latest figures, a negative record is feared for 1994. [pas...
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National, Local Drug Policies, Treatment Programs Being Treatment Modeled on Italian `Recipe'
the Italian treatment worker told a new group of drug addicts who attacked their lunch after a sweaty morning of working the minisettlement of San Carlo in the Alben Mountains near Rome. This minisettlement is part of the Italian Solidarity Center's drug treatment program called the ``Human Project'' which, since the 1...
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Poll Reveals Extent, Types of Drug Use
you/did you | | |consume drugs? | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Special occasions |13.1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Regularly for no special reason |19.8 | --------------------------------------------------------...
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Federal Police Official in Amazonas Cited on Antidrug
of that, we have agreed that exchanging information is valuable in order for us to engage in uniform repressive action. Vieira: What activities are under way? Sposito: We discovered that the producing center for refined cocaine in Colombia was shipping a small part of its production down the Amazon River, whose waters ...
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Activities of Alleged Japanese Mafia Leader Prior to Arrest
could prove decisive for exposing the Yakuza's intricate operations, and the strategy for its activity in Brazil. The "Mafioso" jailed in Brasilia, awaiting extradition, has been in the country since at least early 1993. The first warning of his presence was provided in February, by the Japanese police, after the seizu...
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Over 4,000 Kg of Cocaine Seized From Tank Truck in Coahuila
CSO [Article by Alonso Gomez Uranga] [Text] Torreon, Coahuila, 28 March--Federal Judicial Police (PJF) agents in Coahuila arrested two persons from whom they confiscated 4,187 kg of cocaine. It was being carried on a butane gas tank truck, which was intercepted at Km 54+56 of the Saltillo-Concepcion del Oro highway. Th...
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Narcotics Roundup for 11-17 April
in their bags. (Rangoon MYANMAR ALIN in Burmese 3 Apr 94 p 11) Philippines Immigration agents have arrested German national Helmuth Herbst and Swiss national Remo Dalla Corte with about 5 million pesos worth of hashish. Herbst admitted to owning three bags containing several blocks of hashish, which reportedly came fro...
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Environmental Protection Legislation Discussed Industrial Waste Loopholes
CSO [Article by Eduardo Calvo Sans: "The Enemy Is Argentina"; first paragraph is LA PRENSA introduction] [Excerpts] While all sorts of hazardous materials circulate throughout the world, here in Argentina we still do not know what to do with our own wastes or how to control them. Argentina is supposedly safe from hazar...
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Gulf of Guayaquil Pollution; Galapagos Viewed
CSO [Text] According to Fernando Gonzalez, the undersecretary of fisheries, the productive sectors, especially those of the banana and fishing industries, should cooperate to repair the damage to the environment and the pollution of the Gulf of Guayaquil. Guayaquil Staff--Fernando Gonzalez, undersecretary of fisheries,...
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Commentary Assails Export of Hazardous Waste to Third World
for financial assistance. There were reasons for that. Environment awareness was poor in those days and most developing countries were cash-strapped and looked for an avenue for resources wherever they could be obtained. But now, with the increasing public awareness of the environment and of the need to protect one's e...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
it was. In Moscow, for example, the rate of bronchial asthma among children was seven times higher in 1981 than in 1949 (6.9 cases for each 1,000 children). In St. Petersburg the number of children suffering from bronchial asthma increased from 2.9 per 1,000 in 1982 to 3.7 per 1,000 in 1987. The number suffering from a...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
suffer from bronchial obstructions several times a year. This coincided with the start-up of the bank of coke ovens in December 1986 without the necessary dust and air filters. It was then that the rate of tracheobronchitis rose and asthmatic attacks in children became more common. The number of children hospitalized w...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
group to suffer from disorders of the respiratory organs, the central nervous system, the skin, and the urinary organs. The rate of these illnesses is also higher among adults, as well as the rate of cardiovascular and otorhinolaryngological disease (materials of the Ufa Scientific Research Institute of Human Ecology a...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
penicillin (52 percent of the respondents), the candida antigen (54.5 percent), or both antigens (29 percent). ...In the "aluminum" cities, just as in some other large industrial centers, dental pathology is accompanied by changes in the whole motor-reflex apparatus in children. A special in-depth study of the children...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
deviations from anthropometric standards are indicators of the state of pediatric health at the time of the study and indicators of possible subsequent changes. Children with maximum deviations from average anthropometric characteristics are known to suffer more frequently from pathological changes than children who de...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
treatment for cardiovascular and pulmonary disease revealed a direct connection. The number of requests for emergency treatment for cardiovascular disorders was 2.4 times as high as in the zone with a relatively low level of air pollution (materials of the Comprehensive Hygiene and Occupational Disease Institute of the...
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Draft Document on Effects of Pollution on Health of Russian
mortality. A comparative analysis of infant mortality rates in the urban and rural populations is of some interest in revealing the role of the ecological factor. The rate was higher in urban locations in 14 oblasts. They included such industrially developed territories as Moscow, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov, Orenburg, and ...
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Pollution Situation Needs `Urgent Action'
budgetary allocations. There is no alternative when the nation's health is at stake. It is up to the state to call those directly responsible for environmental damage strictly to account. Anyone who breaks the Russian Law on Protection of the Environment must be made to pay. With the transition to market relations, sou...
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Maritime Administration on Terminated Nuclear Waste Dumping
BFN [By BUSINESS-TASS] [Text] Moscow March 25 TASS -- The Maritime Administration has put into question a possibility to implement the Russian summit statements on termination of liquid low-radioactive waste dumping in the Pacific Ocean, sources at the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Russian Minis...
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BMFT Funds Program for Nonpolluting Manufacturing Processes
BFN [Text] In the past, progress in environmental protection was achieved overwhelmingly by applying technological measures downstream, as in the case of filter, washing, and sorption systems for dedusting and exhaust gas cleaning, clarification methods for treating effluent, and biological, chemical, and thermal plant...
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Problem of CFC Disposal Still Not Solved
methods are undergoing experimentation. Engineers at Maschinen- und Apparatebau Grimma tested plasma cracking a few years ago. Concentric Machines (CM) in Treutlingen has developed the Chemical Reverser that obtains reusable cracking products from CFCs and halons. The American company Process Technologies of Boise Idah...
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Process for Recycling Computer Parts Described
CSO [Article by Birgitt Riese: "Electronic Scrap Travels Many Routes To Disassembly"; Subhead: "Waste Managers Have Market Divvied Up"] [Text] Duesseldorf, 25 February 1994 -- Recycling of electric and electronic scrap material is off and running. Numerous firms have discovered for themselves the lucrative waste dispos...
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Saxony Changes Approach to Recycling Plastics
CSO [Article by Dieter Mueller: "Cautious Change of Course on Recycling of Plastic Waste Materials"; Subhead: "BASF Bets on Raw-Material Recycling of Packaging Polymers"] [Text]Ludwigshafen, 25 February 1994 -- Stricter anti-pollution regulations in the future may make the incineration of plastic waste as expensive as ...
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Problem of CFC Disposal Still Not Solved
methods are undergoing experimentation. Engineers at Maschinen- und Apparatebau Grimma tested plasma cracking a few years ago. Concentric Machines (CM) in Treutlingen has developed the Chemical Reverser that obtains reusable cracking products from CFCs and halons. The American company Process Technologies of Boise Idah...
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Reclamation of Contaminated Soil Extremely Expensive
BFN [Article by Frank Elsner: "How Much Ecological Recovery Can There Be in Wismut? -- Environment Experts Say GDR Uranium Mining's Legacy of Contamination Will Cost Much More Than 15 Billion German Marks"] [Text] In the GDR it was a country within a state with its own police and jurisdiction, closely watched by the So...
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Law on Vehicle Pollution Not Enforced
CSO [Article by Jonathan Margolis: "Polluting Cars Escape in Cloud of Confusion"] [Text] With evidence growing that motor exhaust fumes are behind Britain's asthma epidemic, it has emerged that not a single car, bus or lorry owner has been prosecuted for having a dirty exhaust since it became an offence eight years ago...
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Minister Notes Worsening Water Shortage
BFN [Text] Beijing, March 22 (XINHUA) -- China's water shortage has worsened as a result of booming economic and social development and pollution, Chinese Minister of Water Resources Niu Maosheng said here today. Speaking at a rally today marking the Second Annual World Day for Water, the minister said that China's per...
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Mahathir Views Industrial Waste Dumping
BFN [Text] Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed says the industrialized countries should not obstruct any effort to impose a total ban on the dumping of industrial waste in Third World countries, particularly Asia. The prime minister said that those countries should in fact take steps to end the export of industrial waste to...
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China Viewed as Potential Market for Eco-Exports
effect at ground level. Since the legalization of private business thousands and thousands of small businesses have arisen in the villages, and while they work with high economic efficiency--at the moment they are producing 30 percent of the gross national product--because of their primitive technical equipment they em...
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Eight Environmental Projects Planned for Industrial
Pollution Control 40101005B Beijing CHINA DAILY in English 10 Mar 94 p 1 40101005B Beijing CHINA DAILY English CSO [Article by Zhu Baoxia: ``State Plans Massive Assault on Pollution''] [Text] The government plans to develop eight major environmental projects in the next three years in a bid to control industrial pollut...
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Ten Companies Reportedly Import Toxic Waste
BFN [Excerpts] Jakarta, KOMPAS -- After conducting investigations from October 1993 to February this year, an environment protection group, Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia [Indonesian Environment Vehicle or Walhi], managed to identify 10 local companies which imported dangerous and toxic plastic waste. Walhi urged th...
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Panel To Set Industrial Environmental Guidelines
BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 7 KYODO -- A government panel Thursday [7 April] began formulating industrial guidelines for environmental protection, panel officials said. An organ of the Industrial Structure Council, an advisory body to the international trade and industry minister, held its first meeting to prepare a set of...
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Tokyo To Continue Dumping Industrial Waste at Sea
BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 7 KYODO -- Japan will continue to dump industrial waste in the ocean despite revision of an international treaty which in principle will ban such activities from 1996, Environment Agency sources said Thursday [7 April]. The volume of Japan's industrial waste dumped at sea accounts for two-thirds...
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Hazardous Waste Exports From OECD Countries Banned
BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur, March 30 (OANA-BERNAMA) -- The export of hazardous waste from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries to non-OECD countries has been banned with immediate effect. The decision was reached during the second meeting of parties to the Basel convention on control ...
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Cancer in Children Attributed to Arsenic in Water
BFN [Text] Seventeen percent of primary students in Ron Phibun district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province, suffer a form of skin cancer as a result of ingesting arsenic toxins in the local water, a Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial official said yesterday. Eighty percent of all residents in Ron Phibun district and some reside...
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Scientists, Greens Urged To Cooperate on Volga Basin Problems
CSO [Article by Andrey Illarionov: ``The Sturgeon Were the First To Die''] [Text] Can an ``environmentally uneducated'' individual foresee something that science cannot or will not predict? I recall how alarmed natives of the Volga region became when construction began on the huge Volga hydroelectric power stations. An...
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`Conversion-Ecology' Program To Develop Ecological Products,
Technologies 94WN0225B Moscow ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI in Russian 17 Mar 94 p 11 94WN0225B Moscow ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI Russian CSO [Unattributed article: ``Billions for Ecology''] [Text] Russia has developed a program called ``Conversion-Ecology.'' The urgent need for such a program stems from the worsening environmental situati...
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Official Views Caspian `Ecological Crisis'
CSO [KHABAR-EGRKIS report under the heading: ``From the Stream of News''] [Text] The Caspian Sea is on the verge of ecological crisis. According to Fikret Dzhafarov, chief of the planning department for use of natural resources of the Azerbaijan Republic State Committee on Ecology, one of the causes of the crisis is ma...
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Eco-Audits Expanding, Being Pushed by Market
as next year experts are projecting several hundred firms will. Large companies like Daimler Benz are presently checking out the ecological fitness of a number of sites. If certification is possible by 1995 they will be the first to have their environmental friendliness checked by the EU. But medium-sized outfits too a...
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Environmentally Related Illnesses Emerge as Major Issue
CSO [Article by Birgitt Riese: ``How Much Illness Is Environmentally Induced?''; Subheads: ``Airborne Pollutants Blamed for Respiratory Tract Infections and Allergies''; ``No Longer Industry But Automobile Traffic Now the Leading Producer of Pollution. Scientists at First International Congress for Environmental Medici...
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Environmentally Related Illnesses Emerge as Major Issue
traffic. Prof. Ulrich Ranft from the Medicinal Institute for Environmental Hygiene in Duesseldorf describes the result of a study conducted in Essen in 1991: ``Compared with industrial waste gasses, concentrations of nitrogen oxides and benzenes from traffic have risen considerably.'' Research has also demonstrated tha...
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Raw Materials Extracted from Special Types of Waste
Reher, chairman of the committee for waste treatment of the German Industry Association [VDI] Society for process engineering and chemical engineering [GVC], remarks: ``The capacity of existing facilities is totally inadequate. The fact is that seven of the 16 laender have no incinerator capacity for special kinds of w...
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First Plant Inaugurated for Recycling Polyurethane
CSO [Article by Dieter Mueller: ``First German Facility for Chemical Recycling of Polyurethane''; Subhead: ``Up to 1000 Tons Per Year of Polyurethane Waste Materials from Production of Shoe Soles to Undergo Recycling by Being Broken Down into Source Materials''] [Text] Pirmasens, 11 March 1994 -- Up until now industry ...
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Renewable Energy Consumption On the Rise in Europe
BFN [Unattributed article: "Energy: Renewable Sources of Energy Gaining Ground in EU"; as released by Brussels EUROPE ENVIRONMENT in English] [Text] In 1992, the European Union turned out 43.6 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) of renewable sources of energy, according to the EU's Statistical Office. Eurostat's ene...
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Ban on Dangerous Waste Export to Third World Advocated
BFN [Article signed SK: "Switzerland To Participate in the Geneva Conference on Dangerous Waste -- In Favor of a Ban on Export of Waste to Third World Countries"; as released by Bern ATSA/SDAA database] [Text] Bern, 14 Mar (ATS) -- Switzerland advocates banning the export of waste to Third World countries. It will supp...
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Government To Stimulate Renewable Energy Industry
BFN [Press release from the UK Department of Trade and Industry: "Strategy To Make New & Renewable Energy Competitive"] [Text] The Government is to seek to stimulate a commercial market in new and renewable energy, with up to 3 billion pounds of private sector investment. Energy Minister Tim Eggar [Title as received] t...
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UN Calls For Rationalising of World's Fishing Industry
25 per cent of all fish consumed in the EU are caught by EU-registered boats fishing in unpoliced Third World waters." Uncontrolled fishing by foreign fleets off Sierra Leone has led to a serious decline in the catch of traditional fishermen, who supply 75 per cent of their country's consumption of animal protein. Deve...
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Acquiring `Dual-Use' Advanced Weapons Technology
(29 November 1993 Tokyo NIKKEI SANGYO). Foreign S&T Agreements Conducive to Weapons Technology Transfer South Korean efforts to acquire dual-use technologies presumably would be enhanced by S&T agreements recently signed with three major arms and arms technology exporting countries -- Russia, China, and Israel -- a fac...
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Nuclear Cooperation With PRC Discussed
as regards its foreign policy calculations, Iran considers the PRC a major country that is undergoing the greatest economic prosperity of the century and one that enjoys immense scope for maneuvering in the political arena of today. The turmoil in the world prior to the Cold War and the elimination of tensions generate...
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Nuclear Cooperation With PRC Discussed
capability may not be imminent but the United States has its own assessment upon which it is not willing to elaborate. It also has no reason to believe that there is no cooperation between Iran and the PRC as regards a military-nuclear program. Simultaneously, the U.S. mass media launched a coordinated propaganda progr...
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Commentator on Reported Biological Weapons Development
newspaper reported that the West has no antidote for this agent. It goes without saying that the report provided no evidence to prove this sensation. It couldn't be otherwise, since there is no such agent whatsoever. The author of the article, sent from Washington, Mr. James Adams, refers to the testimonies which had a...
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Energy Committee Head Views Nuclear Power Situation
BFN [Editorial Report] Kiev Ukrayinske Radio First Program Network in Ukrainian at 1205 GMT on 31 March carries the 40-minute live "Independence" program on the issue of atomic power plants and nuclear energy in Ukraine. The program is moderated by Serhiy Omelchuk and the guest is Mikhaylo Umanets, chairman of the Stat...
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Al-Qadhdhafi Meets Palestinian Alliance Force, Offers Aid Attending Groups Named
BFN [Excerpts] The brother leader of the revolution received leaders of the Palestinian alliance forces: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Islamic Jihad Movement, Fatah Movement-Intifadah, the Palestinian Liberation Front, the Palestinian Front ...
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Islamist Dissident Makes Confessions in TV Interview
by force and by any other means. After reading this book, he began carrying out armed robberies of jewelry shops, stealing cars, dismantling them, and selling them as spare parts. He explained that he adopted terrorism after reading a book entitled ``Milestones'' by Sayyid Qutb. He said the books calls for changing the...
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Update on Suspects Arrested for Cinema, Other Bombings Suspects' Organization, Ties, Other Plans
BFN [Editorial Report] Amman AL-BILAD in Arabic on 30 March publishes on page 5 an approximately 4,000-word report on the suspects charged in connection with a spate of recent explosions in Jordan. AL-BILAD, ``an independent political weekly,'' claims to have accompanied Major Muhannad Hijazi, the public prosecutor of ...
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NLFK Rep Denies Kurdish Involvement in Baku Bomb Blast
BFN [Vyacheslav Afanasyev report: ``Kurds: Fight for Survival''] [Excerpt] ``We are willing to suspend all combat operations under the supervision of international organizations and start talks with the Turkish authorities. But if the Turkish authorities refuse to come to the negotiating table, if the genocide against ...
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German Expert Fears Escalation of PKK Terrorism
BFN [Embargoed until 0400 GMT 29 March] [Text] Berlin (DPA) -- Udo Steinbach, head of the German Orient Institute in Hamburg, has warned that further acts of violence may committed by Kurds in Germany. In an interview with the Berlin daily B.Z. (Tuesday edition), the expert on Turkey said: ``I would not rule out that, ...
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Office Presents Brandenburg Report on Right-Wing Extremism
Despite the fact that the wave of violence in Brandenburg, which reached its climax at the end of 1992, has abated, right-wing extremism remains a central challenge to state and society. This was stressed by Interior Minister Alwin Ziel (Social Democratic Party of Germany) on the occasion of presenting the 1993 Constit...
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Security Office Analysis Says RAF Split, Linked With PKK
BFN [Peter Scherer report: ``RAF Split?''] [Text] [Editor's note: see similar report in item AU2403194894 in previous Terrorism Report] Frankfurt/Main -- ``Currently profound developments are taking place'' in German left-wing extremist terrorism. This is revealed by an analysis of the current situation by the Federal ...
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Kanther Views Security Threat by Kurds, Red Army Faction
BFN [Peter Scherer report: ``Kanther: The PKK Will Not Be Left in Peace''] [Text] Wiesbaden -- Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (Christian Democratic Union) has emphatically warned the banned extremist Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] against the continuation of its violent actions on German soil. In the event of further o...
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ERNK Athens Head Justifies Targetting Tourism
BFN [``Exclusive'' interview with Hasan Dag, head of the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK) in Athens, by Dina Vayena; date not given] [Excerpts] ``Last year's campaign against Turkish tourism was only a warning. The true campaign will begin this year and will take on the characteristics of war.'' Hasan Dag ...
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Greek `Financial Aid' for PKK, ERNK Detailed
that Hasan Dag, head of ERNK [Kurdish People's Liberation Front], which is the PKK's political wing, and Retired Admiral Andonios Naksakis, who facilitates PKK's activities in Greece, appealed to the Governor's Office in Athens to approve the establishment of the society. It has been reported that the society will be b...
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PKK Bomb at Aya Sofya Injures Three Tourists PKK Suspected
BFN [Text] Istanbul, March 27 (AFP) -- Three tourists were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded in the gardens of the Saint Sophia mosque [as received], the Anatolia agency said. A German man and a Spanish woman were taken to a hospital, the agency said. The third tourist, who is Dutch, was treated for light injuries an...
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PKK Bomb at Aya Sofya Injures Three Tourists PKK Claims Responsibility
BFN [Text] Istanbul, Mar 27 (A.A.) -- The separatist terrorist organization PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] on Sunday claimed responsibility for the bombing of the historical Aya Sofya Museum (Hagia Sophia) earlier in the day in which three tourists were injured. An unidentified person called newspaper offices in Ista...
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Police Catch PKK Members Who Kidnaped German Tourists
BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Fourteen members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] have been caught in Tarsus and Mersin in Icel Province. Also, 10 persons have been captured for supplying false passports to PKK members. According to information received from the Icel Security Directorate, two of th...
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TPP, NAP Election Offices Bombed; One Killed, Five Injured
BFN [Text] Molotov cocktails were hurled at the True Path Party [TPP] and the Nationalist Action Party [NAP] election offices situated in two different quarters of Adana this evening. One person was killed in the incidents. According to information obtained by a Turkish Radio and Television correspondent, the Molotov c...
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Army Said Ready To Crack Down on PKK After Elections
BFN [Report by Ismet G. Imset] [Excerpts] Diyarbakir--Over 250,000 Turkish troops are set to launch a historic military operation against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey immediately after the March 27 local elections. The operation, dubbed ``operation cleansing'' in 1991, was postponed at least three times before...
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FBIS TERRORISM REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: 1-8 April
suspects in the World Trade Center bombing. Germany/Algeria/Turkey In two separate reports--one from an Arabic magazine, and one from a German paper--Germany is characterized as an overseas base for both the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). See the "European Affairs" and "Alge...
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Russia, Turkey Agree on Anti-Terrorism Protocol
BFN [Excerpt] Ankara -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese announced that Russia was prepared to help Turkey put an end to the terrorist activities of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The two-day talks, chaired by Mentese and Russian Interior Minister Victor F. Yerin, were concluded on Thursday, the Anatolia news agenc...
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Iran's Ruhani Meets Palestinians, Hizballah, Others in Syria Radio Elaborates on Contacts
BFN [Report by Sana' al-Imam from Damascus] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] The Iranian parliamentary delegation led by Hojjat ol-Eslam Hasan Ruhani, Iranian deputy Majles speaker, held several meetings in Damascus with the pro-Iran Iraqi opposition factions, such as al- Da'wah Party and the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic...
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PFLP's Habash Affirms Intention To Foil Gaza-Jericho Accord
BFN [Text] Ramallah -- Dr. George Habash, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP], stressed that the Palestinian national struggle entered a new political phase after the signing of the Gaza-Jericho accord. The most prominent feature of this phase is the diversion of part of the Pa...
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French Police Find FIS Members With Drugs, Documents Further Details, Numbers
is an ideal hub for drugs traffickers." Last December, investigators dismantled a major network of heroin dealers, implicating 47 people, most of them illegal immigrants. They had already been working for several weeks on a new heroin line when they were taken in for questioning on 21 and 22 March. Chaib and Ahmed were...
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Pope Shanudah Calls Monastery Attack `Chance Incident'
BFN [Interview with Coptic Pope Shanudah by 'Abdallah al-Sinnawi; place and date not given] [Excerpts] [Al-Sinnawi] What were the motives of the attack on the al-Muharraq Monastery? [see 22 March Terrorism Report for report of incident] According to your information, was it an isolated incident or was it premeditated? ...
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Gunmen Kill AFP Correspondent, Bodyguard; Motive Unknown On Road Near al-Sulaymaniyah
BFN [Text] Nicosia, April 3 (AFP) -- Gunmen shot dead an AFP correspondent and her bodyguard in an ambush near al-Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday [3 April], UN aid workers said. Lissy Schmidt, a 35-year-old German, was travelling by car with her Iraqi Kurdish bodyguard when they were attacked east of the city...
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Gunmen Kill AFP Correspondent, Bodyguard; Motive Unknown PUK Statement on Killing; Details
BFN [Excerpt] Nicosia, April 4 (AFP)--An AFP correspondent and her bodyguard in Iraqi Kurdistan were killed instantly when one or more gunmen fired at their car with automatic weapons at short range, UN officials said Monday. Lissy Schmidt, a 35-year-old German, was travelling with her Iraqi Kurdish bodyguard on a road...
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Hamas Carbomb in 'Afula Kills Eight, Wounds 50 Iran Praises `Brave' Attack
BFN [Commentary by News Research and Commentaries Group] [Text] The brave and martyr-seeking attack by a Palestinian mujahid at a Zionist bus stop--on the 40th day of the massacre of fasting worshipers in the al-Khalil mosque--which resulted in the death of eight Zionists and the wounding of more than 50 others, shows,...
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Russian Unit Foiled 1993 Attempt To Blow Up Nurek Dam
BFN [Unattributed report: "Saved From Disaster"] [Text] During the civil war in Tajikistan, Russian troops prevented an explosion at the Nurek Hydroelectric Power Station in the mountains which could have led to catastrophic flooding of many Central Asian areas. The investigation into last year's events is still going ...
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Hamburg Paper on Scope of PKK Membership, Extortion in
demonstrations come from abroad," Ernst Uhrlau, president of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, says. A "Central Committee" of the PKK in Europe coordinates the activities; the so-called area committees are subordinate to it. By Ocalan's order, the PKK organized six large-scale waves of attack i...
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Romania Detains PKK Members; Minister on Talks
BFN [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has concluded his official visit to Romania and has returned to Turkey. In a statement at Esenboga Airport, Mentese said that in his talks in Romania, positive developments were achieved on the issues of domestic security and drugs and arms smuggling. He added that the Turkish...
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Governor Says Iran Cooperating on PKK; Minibus Update
BFN [Text] Ankara -- The governor of the eastern province of Agri said on Thursday that Iran was cooperating with Turkey against separatist terrorists and delivering them "dead or alive" to Turkish officials after military operations. Agri governor Dogan Hatipoglu told the semiofficial Anatolia news agency that militan...
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ERNK Threatens Proposed Baku-Turkey Pipeline
BFN ["Own information" report: "In Combative Mood. Kurds Will Not Guarantee Safety of Pipeline Construction Workers"] [Excerpts] Dzhamal Kadyr [name as transliterated], the Kurdistan National Liberation Front's [ERNK] representative in the CIS, has issued a statement to the Kurdistan Committee in connection with the pl...
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Paper Says PKK Sabotaged Greek Ship, Killed Yeoryiadhis
BFN [Text] It has been discovered that relations between the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] and Athens have been strained by reports that the PKK has taken armed action against several targets in Greece and south Cyprus. Reports that Theofilos Yeoryiadhis, a PKK agent in south Cyprus who was recently murdered [see 28 Marc...
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Arrest of Six PKK Members Includes DEP District Official
BFN [Text] Six members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan], including a woman, have been arrested in Elbistan District in Kahramanmaras. One of the suspects is the head Democracy Party official for Elbistan. Our correspondent has learned that two of the suspects were involved in various terrorist activities in the ...