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...three countries have criticized President Bush's emphasis on military-style repression of the drug trade. They say it should be accompanied by more economic aid to provide alternative crops or sources of income for the hundreds of thousands of peasants who grow coca...
Peru and Bolivia produce more than 90 percent of the world's coca. Colombian drug cartels turn semi-refined coca paste from the two countries into pure cocaine and smuggle it to the United States and Europe...
Hundreds of thousands of peasants in Peru and Bolivia live by growing coca. Officials of both countries say there is little hope of eradicating the crop unless the growers have another way of making a living...
...problem of donating some helicopters, sometimes very old helicopters, or donating rifles or bullets," Garcia said. "It would be enough to offer a good price and a guaranteed market for the products that could substitute for coca...
...movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little besides alienating Hollywood's establishment. Dawn Steel, the current film chief, has had mixed results...