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FBIS4-45447_0 | CEM Document Deplores Involvement of `Certain Authorities' | in Drug Trade 94WB0044C Mexico City EXCELSIOR in Spanish 25 May 94 p 42-A 94WB0044C Mexico City EXCELSIOR Spanish CSO [Article by Patricia Cerda] [Excerpts] The narcotics market is being reinforced because certain authorities are involved in the cultivation, trafficking, and consumption of drugs. This statement was mad... |
FBIS4-45454_0 | Narcotics Roundup for 13-19 June | 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 13 and 19 June 1994. Source information is given in parentheses after each item. South Asia India Customs Seizes Heroin From Guinean at New Delhi ... |
FBIS4-45455_5 | Khun Sa Discusses Economic Conditions, Future Prospects | a month. But everyone, including Suradet, receives an allowance from the state for food and housing. Suradet is very impressed by Khun Sa and the friendliness of the Shan people in Ho Mong and plans to continue working there. The textile plant, which uses technology and instructors from Sankamphaeng District, Chiang Ma... |
FBIS4-45468_0 | Report Views Teenage Drug Abuse | BFN [Unattributed report: "The Majority of Teenagers Have Already Tried It"] [Text] According to experts, drug consumption today in Hungary corresponds to the West Germany of the 1970's. Under-age people living in large cities are most at risk. In this respect, Szeged is considered to be an especially dangerous place. ... |
FBIS4-45469_1 | Involvement of Organized Crime Elements in Drug Trade Viewed | the streets of our cities, one will be able to see scenes as depicted in the U.S. gangster films of the 1930's." Polish "Mafia" A 19 May ZYCIE WARSZAWY article entitled "How a Mafia Is Born" noted that, while Polish authorities reject the use of the term "Mafia" for Polish gangs, there are "well-organized gangs" that c... |
FBIS4-45476_1 | Findings From Survey of Teenage Drug `Subculture' Published | survey clearly demonstrate that the spread of drug and alcohol abuse among the young has become a widespread problem in Ireland. Our own investigations have revealed the ease with which illegal narcotics are imported; the new poll shows the scale of their impact. Researchers discovered that awareness of drug-taking has... |
FBIS4-45479_1 | Drug Consumption in Army Ranks Reportedly Declining | of the military in 1990; 10.7 percent among 4,920 individuals in 1991; 9.1 percent among 4,568 tested in 1992; and 5.8 percent among the 7,465 analyzed last year. Deterring Tests This indicator of a reduction in drug consumption is all the more surprising when one realizes that it has not stopped rising among the civil... |
FBIS4-45490_1 | Novosibirsk Specialist Interviewed on Efforts To Treat | with psychiatrist-narcologist Larisa Vladimirovna Pushkareva, chief of the adolescent ward of the municipal city drug rehabilitation clinic. Lasovskaya: Larisa Vladimirovna, how does it still happen that adults living side by side with a teenager do not notice that they have a real drug addict in the family? Pushkareva... |
FBIS4-45490_2 | Novosibirsk Specialist Interviewed on Efforts To Treat | One gets the impression that modern-day children have no notion of the danger in which they are putting their lives. Among those whom you begin to treat, is there not a single person who has discussed this topic with adults? Pushkareva: Why not? About 30 percent have been forced to listen to admonitions from their moth... |
FBIS4-45491_4 | Chief of Antidrug Bureau Views Problems, Priorities | train our employees. The UN is allocating specific sums of money to all the CIS states in order to combat the drugs mafia and is also financing international seminars at which experts in this field can exchange experience and establish ties. For example, the department responsible for combating drug addiction in the Un... |
FBIS4-45552_3 | Banking Association Issues Statement Outlining Position on | 1970; --and the Colon Free Zone, which was organized in 1946. The threats facing these four areas of our service economy stem from two sources: --from some sectors of the international community aimed at limiting their effectiveness and ending their existence; --attempts by criminal organizations to use these areas to ... |
FBIS4-45552_11 | Banking Association Issues Statement Outlining Position on | of legal documents to implement the guidelines of the Vienna Convention and the FATF with regard to the banks obligation to: 3.1. register all international and local transactions in a logbook subject to revision by the Banking Commission; 3.2. rigorously investigate the origin and destination of intricate and unusual ... |
FBIS4-45559_0 | FAP Commander Views Participation in Antidrug Efforts | BFN [Interview with General Jose Nadal Payva, the Peruvian Air Force, FAP, commander, by unidentified reporter; place and date not given] [Text] [EXPRESO] Gen. Nadal, could you tell us how the FAP participates in drug enforcement actions? Nadal: The FAP has been carrying out joint operations with the PNP [Peruvian Nati... |
FBIS4-45575_1 | Impact of Drug Trade in Southern Provinces Detailed | are done at "strategic locations" in the South. According to the NPSC official, the highly-priced narcotics--mainly raw opium and high-grade heroin--get to the South by land and sea. The most widely used route is the Petchkasem Highway. The traffickers' first stop is generally somewhere in Lang Suan Dlstrict, Chumphon.... |
FBIS4-45586_0 | British Prime Minister Proposes Action Plan To Combat Crime | in Europe LD2406132894 London PRESS ASSOCIATION in English 1229 GMT 24 Jun 94 LD2406132894 London PRESS ASSOCIATION English BFN [By Geoff Meade, PA News, in Corfu] [Text] [British Prime Minister] John Major today launched a five-point plan to tackle crime and fraud across Europe to show citizens that the EU can influen... |
FBIS4-45593_2 | British Truck Drivers Reportedly Being `Duped' Into Hauling | has been declared bankrupt and is about to lose his house. His MP [expansion not given] Cynog Dafis campaigned for his release because, he says: "I've known John Barber for a long time. He's transparently honest." Roy Clarke's MP, Sir Archibald Hamilton, who has written to the Spanish Justice Minister about his case, p... |
FBIS4-45597_3 | Drug Problem Among Youth in St. Petersburg Assessed | into the opium solution an inexpensive medicine--he usually has a money problem; a `dirty' drug costs less but will deliver the same kind of `high' as the pure one. "So this work is not easy, and the department has gone through difficult experiences: We tried different methodologies for treating children--from complete... |
FBIS4-45599_0 | Roundup of Environmental Reports | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a roundup of recent environmental reports monitored from media in FBIS Abidjan Bureau and EAU coverage areas from 6 to 17 May. Ghana The Volta River Authority [VRA] "banned activities like farming, tree felling, bush burning, and charcoal production along shores bordering the sho... |
FBIS4-45599_1 | Roundup of Environmental Reports | chiefs in the affected areas to assist in the efforcement of the ban to prevent further degradation of the environment around the lake." [Accra Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Radio Network in English 0600 GMT 6 May 94] Mali President Alpha Oumar Konare received Mr. Billo Soumana, Niger's minister of water supply and th... |
FBIS4-45601_1 | Shanghai Achieves `Basic' Environmental Protection | than 13 million, is China's largest industrial city. To ensure that its people live in a clean environment, the municipal government has adjusted its industrial structure and industrial locations in a scientific and rational way in recent years. At the same time it has concentrated on the treatment of water and air pol... |
FBIS4-45607_0 | Official Says Soil Erosion in Yangtze Valley Under Control | BFN [Text] Guiyang, May 23 (XINHUA) -- China has succeeded in its water and soil control project on the upper reaches of the Chang Jiang river, the country's longest river, bringing 26,300 square km of eroded land under control and raising forest coverage by 33 percent. In an interview with XINHUA, Chen Junfu, an offic... |
FBIS4-45611_3 | Daily Discusses Environmental Issue in World Trade | of job opportunities. Can the restriction and closure of industries that produce toxic wastes be the only alternative to comply with the world trade regulations or are there any other alternatives? Indonesia should study the facts on production technology from other pulp and paper manufacturing countries that have stop... |
FBIS4-45613_1 | Tokyo, Washington To Cooperate on Polio, AIDS, Environment | program. The program is a new "common agenda" initiative the two countries created Tuesday as part of a year-old bilateral accord to promote cooperation on global social and environmental issues. Wirth said the two countries also agreed to pool their aid resources and launch a second child health initiative to develop ... |
FBIS4-45620_1 | Government To Chose Nuclear Waste Storage Site in 1994 | of those residents who want to have such a site built in their area. But, as seen in the large-scale demonstrations in Yangsan County, South Kyongsang Province, we have come to judge that the beginning of construction based on residents' consent is realistically impossible. In this regard, the government will make publ... |
FBIS4-45621_0 | Nam Theun-Hinboun Project To Pose No Threat to Environment | BFN [Feature by Soumountha: "Nam Theun-Hinboun Hydro-Power Project Poses No Treat to Environment"] [Text] "Nam Theun-Hinboun Hydro-Power Project poses no threat to environment." That was a welcome answer given to "VIENTIANE TIMES" reporters by the Project Manager. In fact, this Hydro-Power project signed on April 20 au... |
FBIS4-45629_1 | Southern Cone Environmental Issues | are dumping chemical waste and metals like zinc, copper, gold and silver into the lake through the San Juan and Huayllay Rivers. The pollution affects 80 percent of the lake which measures some 1,184 square kilometers. Nearly 120 species of birds used to populate the lake during their annual migratory cycle. Today not ... |
FBIS4-45637_1 | Lemeshev Views Work of Duma Environment Committee | already sick. What will happen to them in adult life? Two-thirds of all the diseases today are associated with the unfavorable state of the environment. In Russia this is more pronounced than in the West. First of all pollution of the environment in cities with populations of over one million is alarming. Water quality... |
FBIS4-45642_10 | Alarm Sounded on Quality of Drinking Water | disease and diseases of the cardiovascular system, is encouraging the onset of arterial sclerosis and hypertonia, and is having an effect on women's reproductive functions. A study of the sickness rate and medical checkups on the population in Saratov Oblast, have shown that when waters of the type containing hydrocarb... |
FBIS4-45649_17 | Draft Concept of Russian Federation Environmental Security | of a system to monitor air pollution in cities and other population centers Development and application of models for calculating long-distance cross-border transfer of sulfur, nitrogen and carbon compounds, oxidants, organic compounds and heavy metal compounds Improvement in the technological level of chemical, petroc... |
FBIS4-45649_19 | Draft Concept of Russian Federation Environmental Security | pesticides and biological means and methods of combatting pests Implementation of the principles contained in the "World Soil Strategy" and the "World Soil Charter" in Russia Development of norms and standards for efficient land use. 3.1.5. Improvement of Forestry Monitoring of forest resources and assessment of their ... |
FBIS4-45659_0 | Differentiated Site Reclamation Criteria Required | BFN [Article by Hans-W. Wichert: "Old Liabilities -- New Tasks: Criteria for Reclamation"] [Text] The problems surrounding polluted sites in the new federal laender may be seen as the major obstacle to the sale of the old factories with a view to creating new jobs. However, it is important to differentiate between the ... |
FBIS4-45659_2 | Differentiated Site Reclamation Criteria Required | the main parts affected. In all these cases it is to be expected that the soil will have been polluted by slag containing heavy metals, petroleum products, phenols, chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHC's), and creosotes (polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons). All these pollutants are to be found in the soil in varying concentrat... |
FBIS4-45660_0 | Three Reclamation Projects Funded by Research Ministry | BFN [Text] Three projects, for which the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) has granted funding, will take on a pilot role for other reclamation plans. About 25 million German marks [DM] will be spent on developing and testing reclamation processes for use on heavily contaminated soil at the former Buna... |
FBIS4-45661_2 | Conversion of Bitterfeld Works Reported | of this project as well. The gigantic survey program carried out on the factory site and in the surrounding area to locate the dumps immediately after unification came in handy. As Eisewicht says, "Sample drillings and analyses were performed over the areas according to a specific grid." Old records were subsequently a... |
FBIS4-45664_6 | Scharping, Greens Minister Debate Economy | have to proceed in this direction. But you obviously do not have the courage to say so right now. Scharping: You are not going to make this idea any more correct by constantly repeating it. As far as energy prices are concerned, we are quite near the top of the European table. A global market can no longer be financed ... |
FBIS4-45664_11 | Scharping, Greens Minister Debate Economy | Let me tell you this. If the Greens suggest a tax on the size of accommodation, and raise the tax on property and crude oil and introduce an additional tax... Fischer: I had better keep quiet after the public row you have caused. Scharping: That is why I am asking. When you carry out all your plans and work out how muc... |
FBIS4-45670_1 | Export of Illegal Toxic Waste Investigated | 127 signatories to the 1989 Basel Convention outlawed the dumping of any toxic waste by the industrialised nations on their most regular victims -- non-members of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the developing world like Brazil and Indonesia. But in view of the time it takes to build... |
FBIS4-45670_4 | Export of Illegal Toxic Waste Investigated | dumped in such countries. Germany, the world's largest exporter of toxic waste, sent 1,370,892 tonnes of toxic waste and other hazardous rubbish to non- OECD countries between 1989 and 1993. Some of this was legally exported, under the old rules, for "recycling" to Indonesia and eastern Europe, but much was shipped in ... |
FBIS4-45671_0 | Four Nations Propose Alternate Whale Sanctuary Plan | BFN [Text] Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, May 24 KYODO -- Four nations advanced an alternative proposal Tuesday [24 May] to a plan for imposing a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic that would virtually bar Japan and other whaling nations from resuming commercial whaling. Chile, Argentina, Sweden and Switzerland jointly put the... |
FBIS4-45673_0 | First Shipment of Nuclear Fuel Waste Leaves Arkhangelsk | BFN [Report by Yan Berling in Severomorsk; from the "Novosti" newscast] [Text] The first trainload of the nuclear fuel waste has left the Sogagorka railway junction in Arkhangelsk at 0200 today. For almost three years now the nuclear reactor rods have been deposited at the SevMash [Severodvinsk Machine-building] enterp... |
FBIS4-45678_0 | Minister Finds Raw Materials Exports `Alarming' | BFN [Text] Prague, April 28 (CTK) -- The export of non-renewable resources and products which have not been very highly processed made up 32 percent of overall Czech exports, a fact which Environmental Minister Frantisek Benda considers alarming, he said at a press conference of the Christian Democratic Party (KDS) tod... |
FBIS4-45690_0 | Traffic in Toxic Waste Profiled, Decried | CSO [Article by Marcelo Monteiro: "Dealing in Death"] [Text] Enterprises in the First World are using tactical excuses to ship toxic materials to the Third World. Brazilian legislation has loopholes that permit the entry of such substances. But the mobilization of ecologists resulted in England for the first time being... |
FBIS4-45692_0 | Scientists Fear Iraq's Wetlands Face Destruction | BFN [Andrew North article: "Saddam Drains Life From Arab Marshes"] [Text] Southern Iraq's ancient marshlands, the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East, and home to the Marsh Arabs for nearly 5,000 years, will disappear within the next 10 to 20 years if the Iraqi government continues to drain them. That is the c... |
FBIS4-45693_0 | Official Says No Means for Hazardous Waste Disposal | BFN [Report by Liat Collins] [Excerpt] Some 35,000 tons of hazardous waste have piled up at the Ramat Hovav toxic waste dump with no means for its disposal, the environment minister's adviser, Aharon Vardi, told the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee yesterday. Environment Minister Yosi Sarid has ordered the pu... |
FBIS4-45694_0 | Radioactive Dumping in Kara Sea Detailed | CSO [Article by N. A. Aybulatov, doctor of geographical sciences, RAN [Russian Academy of Sciences] Institute of Oceanology, under rubric "Ecology": "Radioactive Burial Grounds in the Kara Sea"] [Text] During recent decades the radioactivity of the seas has increased noticeably. The major reasons are nuclear weapons te... |
FBIS4-45697_1 | EU Strongly Supports Solar Energy Research | sources. Hendrik Tent of the Commission's DG XII, said that a large part of these funds would be used for developing photovoltaic solar energy. Wolfgang Palz (DG [Directorate General] XII), moreover, announced that the European Commission intended to present a new programme soon entitled "Power for the World", whose ai... |
FBIS4-45708_3 | Germany Finds Foreign Markets for Excess Recycled Waste | new products at a tolerable cost. In this regard, he says that the high utilization quotas cited by DSD are a questionable success. "An expensive field experiment is being performed on the population of the Federal Republic," Berndt criticizes. Berndt's colleague Marcus Thiele points out a "construction error" in Duale... |
FBIS4-45710_1 | High Performance Photovoltaic Cell Developed | (in practice it is the same) for 1 million Watt-years." Foti already has negotiations well underway for the batteries (that are three times more efficient than the traditional lead ones) ranging from electronics to portable computers and the electric car. Contacts are just starting for the application of the thin lithi... |
FBIS4-45712_0 | Solar Energy Dilemma: Lower Costs or Higher Return | BFN [Article by Bart Stam: "Lower Costs or Higher Return Is the Dilemma for Solar Energy""] [Text] Amsterdam -- While a large European conference on photovoltaic solar energy (PV) will take place in Amsterdam next week, many countries are wrestling with the question of how to proceed from here. More funds for research ... |
FBIS4-45712_1 | Solar Energy Dilemma: Lower Costs or Higher Return | a useful as originally thought. The ambitious `Thousand Roofs Project' has sadly produced very little new knowledge; in fact, each time the same information was obtained from 2,250 separate projects. Unlike Germany, the Netherlands has not yet made a definite choice between the two options. The National Research Progra... |
FBIS4-45712_2 | Solar Energy Dilemma: Lower Costs or Higher Return | short term, it would appear that the leading part has been reserved for solar cells made from (semi) crystalline silicon. In the Netherlands, R&S Renewable Energy Systems and the ECN (the Dutch Energy Research Center) are the two most important bodies as far as R&D is concerned. After the turn of the century, cheaper t... |
FBIS4-45713_2 | Regulations on Transfrontier Waste Transportation Announced | that these Regulations will enable the UK to fulfil its obligations under the Basel Convention, and contribute significantly towards securing the environmentally sound management of waste movements to and from the UK." Notes to Editors The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Basel Convention on the Control of T... |
FBIS4-45714_0 | Diesel Fumes Said To Kill 3,000 a Year | CSO [Article by Sean Ryan, environment correspondent: "Diesel `Kills 3,000 a Year'"] [Text] The government's most senior adviser on air pollution in cities will trigger an intense debate over the safety of diesel vehicles tomorrow by claiming that their exhausts kill 3,000 people a year, writes Sean Ryan, Environment C... |
FBIS4-45715_0 | Efforts To Halt Rise in Diesel Fumes Urged | CSO [Article by Paul Brown: "Diesel `Poses Threat" to Health"] [Text] The Government has been formally warned by its health and environment advisers to halt the rise in diesel fumes. Increasing sales--more than one in four cars are now diesel--point to the likelihood of taxation being used to cut demand. The Committee ... |
FBIS4-45717_0 | Loophole in Toxic Waste Convention Exploited | CSO [Article by Paul Brown, environment correspondent: "Britain `Exploiting Toxic Loophole'"] [Text] The Government is exploiting a loophole in the Basel Convention, which controls the international trade in toxic waste, to get rid of unwanted substances in the third world, opposition parties alleged yesterday. Chris S... |
FBIS4-45726_0 | Concern Over Pollution of Sea Water Told Pollution Threatens Insurers | CSO [Article by Robert Tyerman: "Pollution Threatens Insurers"] [Text] Surfers Against Sewage may seem a less awesome lobby group than Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace. But a £5,000 damages claim launched by SAS [Surfers Against Sewage] against Southern Water is expected to provide a test case which could decide whet... |
FBIS4-45728_0 | Gummer Announces Review of Radioactive Waste Policy | BFN [Press release issued by the UK Department of the Environment: "Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy Announced"] [Text] Environment Secretary John Gummer today announced a review of radioactive waste management policy to be undertaken at the same time as the nuclear review. In answer to a written parliamen... |
FBIS4-45730_0 | Dumping of Waste Profiled | CSO [Unsigned article: "The World's Big Problem"] [Text] The illegal import transaction carried out by Produquimica is not an isolated case. Between 1986 and 1993, Greenpeace documented 120 export proposals for toxic waste from developed countries going to the Third World. Over the past five years, the industrialized n... |
FBIS4-45732_1 | Conference Discusses Worldwide Control of Chemicals | least 40,000 people are killed each year by misuse of pesticides and up to one million are made ill or permanently damaged, Jan Huismans, of the United Nations environment programme said yesterday. Many of the chemicals are made in Europe and North America and are exported to developing countries where they are used by... |
FBIS4-45739_0 | Song Jian Discusses Cleaning Up Huai He | BFN [By reporters Zhu Youdi (2612 1635 2769) and Kong Xiangying (1313 4382 6601)] [Text] Hefei, 26 May (XINHUA) -- An on-the-spot meeting sponsored by the State Council Environmental Protection Committee on reviewing the law enforcement of environmental protection in the Huai He basin concluded in Bangbu, Anhui, today.... |
FBIS4-45740_12 | Policy To Protect Cultivated Land Environment | be forests, suit measures to local conditions, coordinate tilling and husbandry of resources sensibly, and apply the principle of combined social, economic and ecological benefits in land utilization. (5) Apply Comprehensive measures, and Control Land Pollution. Industrial discharge of the "3 wastes" is a source of lan... |
FBIS4-45741_6 | Measures To Curb Environmental Predicament in the Next 25 | and other ecological environmental issues caused by industrialization and urbanization have gotten much attention since the 1970's, but the public consciousness has yet to be sharpened on these issues. It should be regarded with alarm that these pollution problems are growing worse every day in the process of the rapid... |
FBIS4-45742_1 | Legislation Urgently Needed for Solid | doubled from the 1950's to 1990's, and the amount of garbage per capita in West Germany in 1989 was 239 kilograms. It is no wonder that people have exclaimed that "mankind will drown in the garbage it has created". China is a developing country and reform and opening up have spurred rapid economic development. As produ... |
FBIS4-45743_1 | Reports on Jiaozhou Bay's Environmental Condition | is man-made as over 10 million tons of all types of garbage are put into the sea each year, while large areas of the sea have been swallowed up by enclosure of the sea to create land and the opening up salt fields and shrimp pools. There is also serious water pollution. Because of urban population growth and industrial... |
FBIS4-45748_1 | Daily Views `Environmental Soundness' of Companies | That is, the bigger the factory and its operations, the lighter the cost burden which the manufacturer has to bear relative to the volume of goods produced. Such an argument, therefore, seems valid, especially since small-scale industries comprise an important segment of this country's industrial sector. They not only ... |
FBIS4-45750_0 | Suharto Inaugurates Industrial Waste Treatment Center | BFN [Excerpt] Jakarta -- President Suharto on Monday reminded all countries of the need to build treatment centres for hazardous and toxic wastes, saying that Indonesia and other developing countries do not want to be dumping places of those wastes. "The construction of an industrial waste treatment centre reflects sel... |
FBIS4-45755_0 | Sources Report Differences Over Desertification Plans | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 2 KYODO -- Countries meeting in Paris next Monday [6 Jun] to frame a convention to prevent desertification are still at odds over how to fund the effort, despite an unofficial Canadian-Zambian initiative for a compromise proposal, government sources said Thursday. The desertification convention i... |
FBIS4-45765_1 | Southern Cone Environmental Issues Through 26 May | adjacent to Amboro National Park, Santa Cruz Department. Fobomade Secretary General Loida Rodriguez said this situation is reflected in the increasing transportation of trees to various markets. (La Paz PRESENCIA in Spanish 14 May 94 p 6) Alternative Development Under Secretary Raul Enrique Ugalde Castro stated that th... |
FBIS4-45766_0 | Report Says Coastal Aquifer Water Quality Deteriorating | BFN [Report by 'Amiram Kohen] [Text] "If the salinization and pollution of the coastal aquifer continues at the present rate, the level of water salinity and pollution will by the year 2018 be such as to render 25 percent of the aquifer water impotable, while the salinity rate of over 50 percent of the water will be ab... |
FBIS4-45767_0 | Water Quality Said Endangered by Autonomy Agreement | BFN [Text] Water Commissioner Gid'on Tzur says that autonomy agreements could critically endanger Israel's water supply. In a briefing to the Knesset State Audit Committee, the commissioner said the country's water supply could be damaged by seeping sewage and industrial waste from the autonomous regions. He said he be... |
FBIS4-45769_1 | Central Asian States Face Potential Water Resource Conflicts History of Water Wars | advantage of that fact. Especially since water wars are not uncommon in the history of Central Asia. In the hot summer of 1850 a unit set out from Khiva in the direction of Staryy Urgench: Khiva's ruler, Mukhammed-Emin, had ordered the construction of a dam on the Sharkrauk. The Turkmen tribes that paid the khan a "blo... |
FBIS4-45770_3 | Central Asian States Face Potential Water Resource Conflicts River Diversion Projects | In Uzbekistan I heard it said several time that "the death of the Aral Sea is an accomplished fact." The universal cries of "The Aral Sea can still be saved!" are supposedly misleading people, even though now is the time we should be urgently working on another problem that can still be solved: the problem of lands tha... |
FBIS4-45771_0 | Central Asian States Face Potential Water Resource Conflicts Consequences of Diversion Projects | CSO [Article by Aleksey Kirichenko and Azer Mursaliyev: "Possible Consequences of River Diversion Projects"] [Text] Northern Diversion Regions 1. Flooding of farmland and timber land by reservoirs; rising ground water levels. 2. Damage to the fishing industry due to changes in the hydrobiological conditions of rivers. ... |
FBIS4-45772_1 | Central Asian States Face Potential Water Resource Conflicts Military, Political Implications | more dependent on Tashkent than Tashkent is on them. It is through Uzbekistan's territory that vitally important lines of communication to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and the northern part of Afghanistan pass, and it is from there that they get the majority of the energy resources they consume. This in turn allows Tashkent ... |
FBIS4-45781_10 | Experts Cite Need for `Urgent Immobilization' of | with the products of the corrosion of other metals, form macrosols which can be carried to fishing industry regions by strong vertical and horizontal currents. All these facts were confirmed in the report of the Polar Scientific Research Institute of the Ocean Fish Industry and Oceanography imeni Knipovich and are well... |
FBIS4-45785_0 | Commission Estimates Damage From Black Sea Fleet Pollution | BFN [Text] Kiev--Valeriy Sirenko, deputy head of the main ecological inspectorate at Ukraine's Environmental Protection Ministry, told a UNIAN correspondent on 31 May that the joint commission of the Environmental Protection Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the State Oil and Gas Committee, the State Housing Services Com... |
FBIS4-45790_3 | Discarded Munitions Now Recognized as Environmental Hazard | Union does not feel responsible for discarded munitions," Rapsch reports regretfully. A discarded munitions financing law drafted by Lower Saxony which had clearly been supported by the Federal Council died in the Bundestag at the beginning of 1993. It provided for the Union participating more in cleanup costs. But fin... |
FBIS4-45794_4 | Dioxin Found in Smelter Waste | group of the State Committee for Emissions Protection strongly advocated a target value of 0.1 ng/m[.sup]3[/] for industrial plants as well. Klaus Toepfer, the German Minister for Environmental Affairs, and his State counterparts have so far not reacted. It is very clear, however, that the dioxin discharge from industr... |
FBIS4-45796_0 | Waste from Dual System To Be Used as Raw Materials | CSO [Article by Juergen Siebenlist: "DSD Waste Becomes Chemical Raw Material Source"] [Text]VDI-N, Cologne--The decision about utilizing used plastic packaging from the "Yellow Sack" of Dual System Germany (DSD) in Cologne for raw materials has been made. On 16 March the board of directors of the DKR Company for Plasti... |
FBIS4-45797_2 | New Procedures Developed for Recycling Plastics | reprocessing center of the BASF add up to DM3 million. The process technologists want to develop "recipes" for working material recycling of plastics. About 15 to 20 percent of used plastics would be able to gain a second life in Germany by this means alone, as long as the materials in question are remeltable thermopla... |
FBIS4-45799_0 | High Yield of Recycling Oil Obtained from Plastic Waste | CSO Environmental Minister Toepfer Opens First German Plastics Hydrogenation Facility in Bottrop [TEXT]Bottrop--With a symbolic push of the button, on April 12th in Bottrop the Minister for the Environment Prof. Dr. Klaus Toepfer set in operation the first commercial installation for recycling plastic packaging as raw ... |
FBIS4-45801_0 | Swiss Develop Scrubbing Process for Flue Gas | CSO Liquid Absorption Lowers Emissions from Industrial and Waste Incinerators [TEXT]Duesseldorf. How cleanly an industrial or waste incinerator plant operates depends first and foremost on the scrubbing of the flue gas. A process tested in Switzerland offers an economical and effective alternative. Requirements regardi... |
FBIS4-45803_1 | Supercritical Water Used To Break Down Solvents, Toxins | introduced throughout the world is the removal of caffeine by means of supercritical carbon dioxide. Professor Helmut Tiltscher at Munich's Technical University observes that "problematical solvents like methylene dichloride, benzene, and toluene, which had been used previously, can now be replaced." Carbon dioxide enj... |
FBIS4-45805_0 | Passive Cogeneration from Water, Sand for Refrigeration | CSO [Article by Christa Friedl: "Zeolite Cools and Heats Economically and in an Environment-Friendly Manner"] [Text] VDI-N,Duesseldorf, 6 May 94 - Whenever cooling is generated, waste heat occurs. A new process, developed by the Zeo-Tech Company in Bavaria, utilizes the waste heat to generate hot water simultaneously w... |
FBIS4-45806_1 | Panel: Alternative Sources Cannot Meet Growing Energy Demand | the government held a panel discussion on the topic "Future Energy Concepts" at a joint session of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the VDE (Association of German Electrical Engineers) in Cologne on 28 April 1994. Doctor Engineer Horst Lennertz, board member at Preussen Elektra, is convinced that the demand for power... |
FBIS4-45808_1 | Boom Seen for Recyclers with Great Increased Demand Forecast | "Secondary raw materials afford the sector great opportunities." Numerous companies have already acknowledged this: almost every third one of the nearly 1,550 exhibitors at Entsorga, from 18 to 21 May in Cologne, is offering technologies, products and services centered on secondary raw materials. Still, it is easier to... |
FBIS4-45813_0 | Shanghai's Environment Improves as Its Economy Grows | BFN [By reporter Ji Jincheng (1323 6651 2052)] [Text] Shanghai, 6 Jun (XINHUA) -- While experiencing a great margin of economic growth last year, Shanghai city witnessed a remarkable drop in discharges of industrial waste water and waste gases. However, the city's solid waste discharge increased in 1993. These are fact... |
FBIS4-45819_1 | Agency Says Overall Environment Conditions `Fairly Good' | year. The volume of solid industrial wastes stabilized at 20 million tons last year. Meanwhile, more trees were planted, leading to a new total of 133 million hectares of forested land. But some environmental problems became worse last year. Emissions of certain air pollutants grew. Soot emissions rose by 7.1 percent, ... |
FBIS4-45820_1 | CHINA DAILY Commentary Greets 5 June World Environment Day | a concerted effort in the battle to protect the environment, China has forged close relations with relevant world bodies. In response to the call of the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, China published a white paper earlier this year entitled: "Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century." ... |
FBIS4-45821_1 | Report on Communique on Environmental Conditions | the strategies for sustained development, and put forward a series of countermeasures and measures on environment and development. Environmental conditions around the country are stable as a whole. The communique issued today notes: Air pollution caused by smoke from burning coal is still very serious in cities -- it i... |
FBIS4-45832_0 | West/Central/East Africa Health Reports -- 14 Apr-5 May | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of disease reports monitored from FBIS Abidjan Bureau and EAU coverage areas. Source information is given in parentheses after each item. Ghana Malaria -- A health official has announced at a workshop that the high incidence of malaria in the Effidua-Sekyere Distric... |
FBIS4-45832_2 | West/Central/East Africa Health Reports -- 14 Apr-5 May | worm disease is generally on the decline in Niger. The number of recorded cases fell from 33,000 in 1991 to 25,000 in 1994. [Libreville Africa No. 1 in French 1830 GMT 28 Apr 94] Measles -- A measles epidemic has been rampant in the Taketa subdistrict for one week now. This was announced by Maton Issa Maifada, head of ... |
FBIS4-45833_0 | Southern Africa Health Reports 25 Apr-1 May | BFN [Editorial Report] Following is a compilation of reports monitored by FBIS Mbabane Bureau from 25 Apr-1 May concerning outbreaks of and reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. The source follows each item. Angola Cholera -- "A serious cholera outbreak, the biggest over the past four ye... |
FBIS4-45834_1 | Southern African Health Reports Monitored 1-8 May | reports on various diseases. Items are listed by country and disease. The source follows each item. Angola Cholera in Benguela Province -- "Cholera is said to be spreading in (Sousa Chipande), Benguela Province. Our correspondent in the province reports that more than 1,000 cholera cases were recorded in April alone. T... |
FBIS4-45837_0 | Cohort Study of HIV Infection Among Drug Users in Ruili and | Other Counties in Yunnan Province, China 54004807A Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] in Chinese Vol 15 No 1, Feb 94 pp 3-5 54004807A Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] Chinese CSO [English abstract of article by Zheng Xiwen [6774 6932 2429], Zha... |
FBIS4-45838_0 | China Begins Campaign To Combat Iodine Deficiency Diseases | BFN [Article by Zhu Baoxia: "State Combats IDDs"] [Text] The State yesterday kicked off a nationwide campaign to combat iodine deficiency diseases (IDDs). Citizens around the country got free advice about how to identify fake from real iodized salt, which prevents the disease when taken. In Beijing, officials set up co... |
FBIS4-45839_0 | Clinical Investigation of Lyme Disease in Beijing Area | CSO [English abstract of article by Feng Fangbo [7458 2455 3134], Zhang Weifen [1728 5633 5358], et al. of No. 261 Hospital of PLA, Beijing] [Text] The investigation of Lyme disease in Beijing area is reported for the first time. The sera of 1,314 local residents were examined by indirect immunofluorescent assay, 11.9 ... |
FBIS4-45840_0 | Studies on Natural Foci of Tsutsugamushi Disease of the | Autumn-Winter Type in Jiangsu 54004807C Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] in Chinese Vol 15 No 1, Feb 94 pp 27-30 54004807C Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] Chinese CSO [English abstract of article by Guo Hengbin [6753 1854 1755], Wu Guanghua ... |
FBIS4-45841_0 | A New Natural Epidemic Focus of Scrub Typhus Found in | Hunchun 54004807D Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] in Chinese Vol 15 No 1, Feb 94 pp 31-33 54004807D Beijing ZHONGHUA LIUXINGBINGXUE ZAZHI [CHINESE JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY] Chinese CSO [English abstract of article by Lu Zhixin [7627 1807 2450], Hu Lingmei [5170 3781 5019], et al. ... |
FBIS4-45844_0 | Statistics on Diseases, Immunizations Reported | BFN [Report by staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "Small Town Model for Immunizing Children"] [Text] The small town of Zhaohegou in Hebei has turned into a national model for vaccinating children against epidemic diseases through its immunization insurance effort, now in its 10th year. For several years, the town outside Sanhe... |
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