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House Considers International Narcotics Control Report |
On March 3, 1988, the Task Force on International Narcotics Control of the House Foreign Affairs Committee held its first hearing to review the worldwide narcotics situation. |
Reinahrd Hasenpflug and Rudolph Siebel |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
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House Narcotics Certification Hearings: Mexico, Si; Panama, No |
On March 10, 1988, the Task Force on International Narcotics Control of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called on two senior State Department officials to discuss their findings on Central... |
David L. Glauber |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
Mexico |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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U.S. and Italy Expand Cooperation |
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Italian Ministry of Interior have announced that the U.S. and Italian Governments have expanded their cooperative law enforcement programs to include a study of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
Italy |
Adjective Enforcement |
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Visit of Congressional Committee Sets Back Swiss-U.S. Cooperation |
In a new and surprising development in Swiss-U.S. criminal cooperation, the effort to harmonize bilateral judicial-assistance cooperation has experienced an unexpected setback. |
Peter Schibli, Basel (Switzerland) |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
Switzerland |
Adjective Enforcement |
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee To Hold MLAT Hearings |
As this issue goes to press, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is planning hearings on the proposed Mutual Legal Assistance Agreements with the Cayman Islands, and Mexico and on an extradition... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Adjective Enforcement |
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Immigrtion User Fee Initiated |
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has promulgated a final rule to implement Section 205 of the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1987, establishing an immigration user fee. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Immigration |
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GAO Concludes that DOD Has Complied with Anti-Drug Abuse Act |
In a report to Congress the U.S. General Accounting Office has found that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has complied with Section 3057 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
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Customs Service Proposes Shooting Down Aircraft to Prevent Drug Smuggling |
United States Customs Commissioner William von Raab has proposed granting authority to the Customs Service and Coast Guard to use force in compelling aircraft suspected of drug smuggling to land at... |
Dan Cohen |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
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State Department's Narcotics Certification Report Continues to Stir Controversy |
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters has circulated a draft report certifying the cooperation of foreign governments in combatting narcotics trafficking and money... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
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IFA Program Updates Estate Tax Exchange of Information |
On February 4, 1988, at the U.S. branch of the International Fiscal Association, William P. Streng, University of Houston Law Center, in a presentation on "estate planning development" outline... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Information Exchange |
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U.S. and Mexico Sign Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty |
On December 9, 1987, the United States and Mexican Governments signed a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) which had been under negotiation for years. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Mexico |
Mutual Legal Assistance |
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U.S. and Canada Reach Cooperation Agreement on Drugs |
On February 2, 1988, the United States Department of Justice announced that the United States and Canada have concluded an agreement providing for the exchange of drug investigators. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Canada |
Drug Enforcement |
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Thai Government Presses U.S. Government For Help in Return of Missing Art |
An incident which has simmered for years between Thailand and the United States Government is now becoming a cause celebre according to a recent newspaper account from which the alleged facts of this... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Thailand |
Adjective Enforcement |
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U.S. and Spain Sign Supplemental Extradition Treaty |
On February 9, 1988, the U.S. and Spanish Government signed a supplemental extradition treaty. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Spain |
Extradition |
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U.S. Likely to Adhere to Berne Convention |
Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis), Chairman of the House Copyright Subcommittee, recently led a delegation to Geneva, Switzerland to confer with representatives of the World Intellectual... |
Jay A. Rosenthal, Esq. |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Intellectual Property |
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Justice Outlines Parole & Repatriation Procedure for Marielitos |
On February 4, 1988, Arnold I. Burns, Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, testifying before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Human Rights |
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Inter-American Institute Releases Compilation of Basic Instruments |
The Inter-American Institute of Human Rights has released a compilation of texts of basic Inter-American instruments on human rights law. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Human Rights |
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Report on the Human Rights Situation in Afghanistan |
The Independent Counsel on International Human Rights (hereinafter the "Independent Counsel"), an independent ad hoc multinational panel of experts on international law, recently issued a report on... |
Jay A. Rosenthal, Esq. |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Afghanistan |
Human Rights |
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Austria Sharpens its Export Control Legislation |
Austria has in the past been regarded as an important jurisdiction for diversions of export controlled goods of U.S. and other CoCom origin. |
Clemens J.M. Kochinke |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
Austria |
Export Enforcement |
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American Bar Association's White Collar Crime Committee Seeks Information on Impact of Prohibited Transactions Statute on Lawyers |
As part of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. 1957, the Prohibited Transactions Statute. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
2 |
1988-02-01 |
United States |
Bank Secrecy |