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...Safir, intrigued by Scorecard (named for its creator's favorite pastime, keeping baseball statistics), rented an office in San Francisco's Federal Building and assigned Wutrich to teach two dozen other investigators to use the system. Working at 15 terminals tied to an Altos 3068 computer, they fed in data about each fugitive from interviews, rap sheets and computerized files from the FBI, DEA and other government agencies. They learned to query for patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech...
...manhunt, code-named WANT, for Warrant Apprehension Narcotics Teams, was conducted by squads of Marshals Service investigators operating out of eight cities and three foreign countries. Howard Safir, head of operations for the Marshals Service, conceived WANT as a way of getting at traffickers who have plenty of cash and ready-made support networks to hide them. In the past, says Safir, "if a drug trafficker was out more than 48 hours, he was basically home free...
...January Safir surveyed U.S. Attorneys and Drug Enforcement Administration offices around the country, put together a list of some 700 most wanted suspects and had WANT field teams in place by March 1. The basics -- shoe leather, hunches and luck -- played their part, but what made the operation click was Scorecard, an electronic indexing system that Wutrich put together in just two months. "It's the thinking man's search," says John Pascucci, the WANT project manager...
...Safir, impressed with Scorecard's results, is setting up a permanent computer center in the Marshals Service's suburban Washington headquarters. Wutrich, meanwhile, is already working on a "smarter" program, which may give the likes of Iran Michael Kesselman even less room in which to hide...
...know that our fellow Alann Steen is dying," Turner said in a five-minute videotape delivered to the offices of the leftist daily newspaper As-Safir in Moslem West Beirut...