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...Grisham's latest set of villains. The new novel's plot involves a high-stakes civil suit against Big Tobacco, brought by the forces of what might be called Big Health, in the name of a widow whose poor slob of a husband smoked himself to death. The tobacco cartel has won every such suit up to this one, but now the odds are beginning to tip. This is why the novel's companies have set up an eight-figure war chest with a private cia of thugs and slinkers to administer...
...About $30 million in anti-narcotics and humanitarian aid will not be affected. Some members of the administration had argued against the sanctions and said they would weaken an already shaky Colombian economy. But charges that Colombian President Ernesto Samper's government has been influenced by the Cali drug cartel led Clinton to decide for the sanctions...
...same fate when they have little firepower or financial incentive to fight back? "We are really worried," says Robert Gelbard, head of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. "There is a substantial risk that these islands could be taken over by criminal cartel groups." He already sees "considerable influence by international drug trafficking groups in the Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts, Nevis and Antigua...
...became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments to the cartel through Antigua, Panama and Colombia. U.S. investigators contend that the Bird dynasty--the current Prime Minister is Vere's son Lester--continues to look the other way as traffickers operate. Another son, Ivor Bird, was convicted last year...
...calls to step down and suggested a referendum to let the people decide his fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money for his campaign...