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True enough, and dental records, when available, can do the same job. The various fingerprint programs are too new to have helped make any identifications yet. But in the '30s and '40s because of a Boy Scouts' crime-stopping campaign, there was some voluntary fingerprinting of youngsters and adults. The FBI, which has many of those earlier records, says the prints have helped identify victims of fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need...
...front last week. A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...pair $85,675, the odds soon began to look longer than that. Advertising was spotty. The first issue carried only three full-page ads and 18 smaller ones, including a satiric appeal for the "elusive" TIME reader: "Arrest him," the ad implored, "and having gone that far, get his fingerprint. Or his signature on the [subscription] form below." Response, measured in circulation receipts, was slow: $11,486 in March; $17,556 in April; $10,122 in May. But in the second half of 1923, TIME'S average circulation jumped to 18,500, and in October, subscriptions started coming...
...silent evidence is being turned into loudly damning testimony. FBI Laboratory Chief Thomas Kelleher (whose technicians handle half a million pieces of evidence a year) reports that forensic science is growing so fast that even the most sophisticated researchers cannot keep up. The granddaddy of scientific evidence is the fingerprint, introduced in 1901. Because a person's print is unique, there is still no better physical evidence. But now there are a number of new ways of Unking a criminal to a crime that are nearly as clear-cut. Suspects are being asked not only for fingerprints...
Passports could be made harder to obtain-by instituting fingerprint identification or designing passports that could be matched with prints on birth certificates. Other answers to the fraud problem, say State Department agents, include giving some other agency responsibility for security-clearance checks. The agents also want the power to make arrests. At present they have to bring along another law enforcement officer whenever they finally catch up with a violator...