71.   Menem, accused of leading the smuggling ring, was placed under house arrest for six months last year by an investigating judge.

72.   Most them are believed to be brought into the country in small quantities by individuals not part of a smuggling ring.

73.   Nineteen people were arrested in Guatemala this week, including a former deputy defense secretary, as part of a crackdown on a nationwide smuggling ring.

74.   Officials caught aiding emigrant smuggling rings have been swiftly prosecuted, Duran Fajardo said, though he refused to identify the officials.

75.   Other officials convicted in the Xiamen case have been executed, while the businessman accused of leading the smuggling ring is fighting extradition from Canada.

76.   Police believe the three men had set up a smuggling ring and intended to sell the antiquities abroad, probably in Japan or an Arab country, police said.

77.   Police in northeastern Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces have cracked a smuggling ring trafficking in tiger parts brought in from eastern Siberia, an official report said Saturday.

78.   Police say members of the smuggling ring tricked children into submitting to being kidnapped by telling them they were going to live with relatives in the United States.

79.   RJR has steadfastly denied it played any role in encouraging the smuggling ring.

80.   Seven Hungarian border guards, two customs officers and three civilians have been arrested by police in connection with a smuggling ring, the daily Nepszabadsag reported Thursday.