Word: interpolates
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...three separate hands, according to a scholar who examined the document? The address it gives, Wetan Nusukan, doesn't exist, though Nusukan does, a village notorious for its drinking and gambling?not the usual pastimes for Islamic fundamentalists. Either evil has got a lot more stupid, or as an Interpol officer in Indonesia says, 'This was most likely done to keep the police busy'?perhaps by a branch of Indonesia's fractious military intelligence or by an outside provocateur. True or not, the plot failed to materialize and Dec. 4 passed without incident. Note for next time: terrorists usually...
Some governments have attempted to regulate or prevent the sale of antiquities. So has the International Commission of Museums, which publishes a Red List of African archaeological objects particularly at risk of looting. None have had much success. Interpol, the international police organization, estimates that the illicit trade in cultural property is worth $4.5 billion a year worldwide, up from $1 billion a decade ago. Africa accounts for 10% of this black market, and its share is growing. "It's a fantastically big problem," says Omotoso Eluyemi, director general at Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (N.C.M.M...
...Through those connections, Reichel got Flodin's Swedish social security number. DiBenedetto's Interpol contact ran it through motor vehicles in Sweden - and made the discovery that broke the case. In 1994 Flodin had applied for a French driver's license under the name Annika Flodin Mallon...
...like on TV, where you just pick up the phone, call Interpol, and they're there in two hours. With the red tape, it takes forever to make something happen," DiBenedetto says. So whenever Philadelphia cops went to Europe on vacation, DiBenedetto begged them to do some legwork for him. He even used his own vacation time to knock on doors. Hank Harrison, a Grateful Dead biographer and the father of Courtney Love, had lent Einhorn a few dollars in Britain. But neither Harrison nor British rock star Peter Gabriel, twice visited by Einhorn, knew he was an accused murderer...
...office, the FBI, Interpol and Swedish police moved quickly. It had been seven years, and this was the best shot yet. But Einhorn was quick too; once again he slithered away, just hours ahead of the sheriff. As for Flodin, she claimed to know nothing about any murderer named Ira Einhorn. The man's name was Ben Moore, and she was his landlady, nothing more. DiBenedetto didn't buy it. She was attractive, and her family had money - the Daily Double that Einhorn lived for. Flodin moved to Denmark three years later, then disappeared, leaving the address of Dublin bookseller...