1. Badalamenti, who is in prison in the United States after being convicted of heroin smuggling, testifies in the Palermo courthouse by a satellite hookup. 2. A lot were for heroin smuggling. 3. According to Turkish reports, the fingerprints on the murder weapon belonged to a gangster wanted for both heroin smuggling and for another murder. 4. But with the big increase in cocaine, marijuana and heroin smuggling in the past ten years, the nature of the policing job has changed. 5. In March, all three were convicted of heroin smuggling. 6. It involves allegations that successive Turkish governments have over the last decade sponsored death squads, harbored terrorists and turned a blind eye to heroin smuggling. 7. Meanwhile, the United States and other countries hesitate to expand or even maintain aid because of human rights violations and new reports of heroin smuggling. 8. They have just begun to learn about the web of politicians, military officers and gangsters involved in death squads and heroin smuggling. 9. A young American who was convicted of heroin smuggling and sentenced to life in prison in Bangladesh was ordered freed Wednesday when a court overturned her sentence. 10. Canada is reviewing its relations with Vietnam to protest the execution this week of a Canadian woman convicted of heroin smuggling, Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said Thursday. |