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Treasury Revises Rules on Reports of Crimes by Banks |
In the March 11, 1986 issue of the Federal Register, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), U.S. Department of Treasury, has promulgated an interim rule concerning reports by a national... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Bank Secrecy |
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Treasury Revises Rules on Reports of Crimes by Banks |
In the March 11, 1986 issue of the Federal Register, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), U.S. Department of Treasury, has promulgated an interim rule concerning reports by a national... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Bank Secrecy |
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Editorial Note-Narcotics Certification: The Controversy Ensues |
Even before the release of the international narcotics strategy report, scrutiny and comments gained promince in the media, showing that in a national political year the subject of U.S. international... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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Editorial Note-Narcotics Certification: The Controversy Ensues |
Even before the release of the international narcotics strategy report, scrutiny and comments gained promince in the media, showing that in a national political year the subject of U.S. international... |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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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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Turkey Signs Conventions on Prevention of Torture |
Turkey has signed two international conventions on the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment and punishment. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
Turkey |
Torture |
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Reagan Administration's budget Request for Law Enforcement Increases |
The Reagan Administration's Fiscal 1989 Budget increases budget authority request for the Department of Justice by 14 percent over FY 1988 appropriations to $6.155 billion. |
Bruce Zagaris |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Law Enforcement |
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Department of Defense Electronically Facilitates Export Control Compliance |
In view of recurring complaints from exporting industries, members of Congress and other interested parties about the difficulties imposed on U.S. exporters by the implementation of the Export... |
Clemens J.M. Kochinke |
4 |
3 |
1988-03-01 |
United States |
Trade 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 |