91.   Black defendants, said Galliher, were more likely to be found guilty and to receive harsher penalties than white defendants charged with the same crimes.

92.   Chinese Sports Minister Wu Shaozu has declared an all-out war on doping this year, promising harsher penalties for athletes and criminal charges for drug suppliers and distributors.

93.   Judge Zahi Kanaan referred to an article of law which justified the harsher penalties.

94.   Malaysia, grappling with a rising drug problem, has proposed harsher penalties to curb drug smuggling in its rehabilitation centres for addicts, news reports said Sunday.

95.   Malaysian authorities, pushing for mandatory death for traffickers of the increasingly popular designer drug Ecstasy, now want harsher penalties for abusers of the psychotropic pill as well.

96.   Malaysia will impose harsher penalties, including caning, to curb an influx of illegal immigrants, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in comments published Friday.

97.   Malaysia, grappling with a rising drug problem, had Saturday proposed harsher penalties to curb drug smuggling in its prisons and rehabilitation centres.

98.   Officials said the new immigration rules also introduce harsher penalties against employers of illegal migrants.

99.   Philippine President Fidel Ramos on Sunday backed a bill imposing harsher penalties, including death, for drug offenses.

100.   Other important articles approved included harsher penalties for procurers, pimps and parents who sell their children into the commercial sex industry.