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Nevertheless, the Clinton Administration has decided after a long review to offer Burma some incentives for better behavior, hoping that one payoff will be serious help in combatting heroin. A U.S. delegation will meet this week in Rangoon with junta leaders, who have just visited opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has kept her under house arrest since July 1989. Diplomats will continue to emphasize human rights, but "our efforts at pure isolation have not been tremendously successful," acknowledges Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State in charge of narcotics matters. One result of the new policy should...
...drug busters, Burma is Asia's mother lode, the source of 60% of the heroin coming into America. Last year, officials say, Burma seized less than 1% of the estimated 2,575 metric tons of opium its drug lords produced...
That is what drove Horn to push for better cooperation with Burma's military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. He and his DEA bosses concluded there was no other way to hurt Burma's drug kingpins like Khun Sa, who has some 20,000 men organizing production and distribution routes. But that goal collided with the main thrust of U.S. policy. After the junta nullified an election and killed thousands of protesters, the U.S. cut off aid and trade privileges and then refused to send a new ambassador. Ever since, the State Department has tried to minimize...
...denies wiretapping Horn. For his part, Huddle says "there's absolutely no truth whatsoever in Horn's allegations." Personality clashes played their part: a State Department colleague calls Huddle "a little martinet," while a DEA buddy admits that Horn is "sometimes pigheaded." But the core of the fight in Burma was a vexing question of policy: How intimate should Washington be with a vicious regime to win its help on curbing drugs...
...nasty interagency quarrel in Burma...