Word: interpolations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mederos contacted Interpol, an international policing system, and asked them to stop the shipment...
...birds of prey, tiger skins, tiger bones and bear gallbladders out of Russia; rhino horns and elephant ivory from Africa; whale meat into Japan; rare birds and snakes from South America -- has more than doubled in value since 1989, generating an estimated $6 billion in annual revenues. According to Interpol, the international police agency, wildlife trafficking is now the second largest form of black-market commerce, behind drug smuggling and ahead of arms dealing...
According to Interpol crime statistics, 44 homicides were known to Singapore police in 1990, down from 70 the previous year. This amounted to a per capita murder rate of 1.5 per 100,000. During the same period in the United States 23,440 homicides were recorded, up from 21,500 the previous year for a per capita murder rate of 9.4 per 100,000. In our nation's capital that figure was 78 murders per 100,000. Our justice system in other words, allows for the greater extinguishment of humanity...
...learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup: a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack a U.S. airline installation in Bangkok. Says a State Department official: "We were able...
Unidroit, a Rome-based intergovernmental organization, is drafting codes that would harmonize many countries' cultural-property laws and make the UNESCO treaty more acceptable. Interpol and other enforcement agencies are hoping that computer files -- once the many different police computers can talk to one another -- will help further...