The World - News from Sept. 26, 1989
The Soviet Union is expected to join Interpol by the end of next year, a senior official of the 147-nation international police coordinating body said in London. Secretary General Raymond Kendall said he expects Moscow to apply for membership in time for the group’s 1990 annual assembly. There has been an upsurge of crime in the Soviet Union, Kendall said, and Moscow has become a transit point for international drug smugglers who use the Soviet airline Aeroflot because it is thought to be above suspicion. Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia are the only East European members of Interpol.
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