51.   Israeli crime syndicates with links to Russian mobs are the primary source of Ecstasy smuggled into the United States, according to the DEA.

52.   Italian smokers are eager to avoid paying heavy government taxes on the packs, and crime syndicates usually control the illicit cigarette smuggling and sales.

53.   Kanemaru met with Susumu Ishii, the head of a crime syndicate, and the protests stopped.

54.   Later in the news conference, Mbeki said crime syndicates included security force members from the apartheid era.

55.   Leung, the customs official, said there appear to be some small crime syndicates getting the video out of the United States and to factories in Asia.

56.   Loan sharking is a major racket for the Camorra crime syndicate, which holds sway in the Naples area.

57.   Local journalists immediately condemned the attack on the radio station, which has been persistent in its reporting of a police crackdown on drugs and crime syndicates.

58.   Muslim rebels and crime syndicates are sometimes involved in kidnapping-for-ransom attacks in the southern Philippines.

59.   Officials attributed the decrease to improved crime-fighting techniques by Latvian police, including preemptive raids to break up powerful crime syndicates.

60.   Patience Pashe, head of a group called Women for Peace in the Alexandra black township, told how crime syndicates lured young men into wrongdoing.