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...Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was sworn in last week; George Terwilliger, No. 2 at Justice in the first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
...Ronald Noble: The secretary-general of Interpol, Noble held high-level Treasury Department posts in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. He?s seen as pretty conservative. He?s very highly regarded; he ran the Treasury Department?s investigation into what went wrong at Waco, and it was generally agreed that he did an excellent job with that assignment. His investigation is much more highly regarded than the Justice Department?s investigation. Noble is the only black man who?s been mentioned as a contender for the Freeh?s post...
...Madrid. Spain, they point out, has no extradition treaty with Russia. Then again, the fact that Gusinsky was held in a nighttime swoop on his villa rather than when he passed through immigration suggests that his arrest was not simply triggered by the presence of his name in Interpol's computers. Some political commentators in Russia have even begun speculating darkly over what political favor Madrid might receive in exchange for arresting Putin's least-loved oligarch...
Last April, however, her luck ran out. Unable to locate her for five years, Interpol agents began checking passenger lists of flights from Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport to New York. On the April 17 flight they spotted the name of her son. More than 40 agents from the Hong Kong narcotics bureau staked out the airport and waited. Around noon, they saw Sister Ping wandering around the airport. At first she denied she was Ping, but after she was fingerprinted she admitted her identity. She was carrying her three passports when she was arrested. An Immigration...
...epidemic. South Africa recorded 1,263 rapes in 1979. Today the official annual figure is nearly 50,000, but rape-crisis researchers say only 1 in 35 is reported. That means there are more than 1.6 million rapes a year--the highest incidence in the world, according to Interpol. (In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned to be 40% among...