41.   Although small-scale selling and consumption of soft drugs like marijuana are tolerated in the Netherlands, the government is committed to cracking down on big smuggling rings.

42.   An unknown number of police, customs and other officials have been implicated in a multibillion-dollar smuggling ring.

43.   Among the inmates executed was Chen Qifu, identified as the leader of the smuggling ring.

44.   But illegal immigration is on the rise with help from similar smuggling rings from Turkey, Morocco and elsewhere.

45.   But U.S. Border Control Assistant Chief Keith Roberts said there were no maps on the boat, indicating they could have been helped out by a smuggling ring.

46.   Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has secretly tape-recorded phone calls between the local police officers and members of the smuggling ring in Canada.

47.   Capt. Bui Danh Ca, a border police officer near the Laos frontier, was later implicated in the smuggling ring.

48.   Chinese smuggling rings have recently been uncovered in the Caribbean.

49.   Coast guards boarded two ships in the operation which was carried out in January but kept secret to allow Dutch police to trace the masterminds behind the smuggling ring.

50.   Customs officials announced Monday that they have cracked a smuggling ring that brought millions of black market cigarettes into Germany hidden in trucks loaded with couches.