Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this game, Harvard has to contain the Big Red aerial attack led by sophomore quarterback Ricky Rahne and wide receiver Joe Splendorio...
Bombarded by the aerial assault of Villanova quarterback Chris Boden, who set a school record with 424 yards passing, the Penn defense could not repeat its opening week performance, when it held Dartmouth to only six points...
...besieged New York City last week, infecting up to 60 people and causing three deaths. What's puzzling--and frightening--is how the mosquito-borne virus got to Gotham; until now, it's been found mostly in the South and West. To battle the bugs, New York has been aerial-spraying malathion, using bug repellent and keeping windows shut...
Your article "A Carpet Of Cocaine" says that most of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. is from Colombia partly because of "the success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru" [WORLD, Aug. 9]. It is important to clarify that coca eradication in Bolivia is done by manual means and not through the spraying of chemical defoliants. The use of herbicides or any other chemical agent is strictly prohibited under Bolivian law in order to preserve the ecological balance. No spraying of any sort is done in Bolivia in connection with coca eradication. MARCELO PEREZ-MONASTERIOS Ambassador, Embassy...
...maddeningly for U.S. officials, Colombia's traffickers seem to be winning. According to McCaffery, 80% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. and an increasing amount of heroin are produced in Colombia. Partly that is because of the success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian traffickers, instead of shutting down their operations, began paying off farmers in the southeastern part of the country to begin wide-scale planting of coca and heroin. Data from U.S. satellites indicate "an explosion" of drug growth inside Colombia over the next couple of years, McCaffery says, and that means more...