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...unofficial name of this Tennessee-sized swath of jungle officially controlled by the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) evokes a sinister amusement park, and that impression was certainly underscored on my first night there: In the town of San Vicente de Caguan, alongside the FARC's House of Culture - a mostly empty building in which camouflage-clad teenage guerrilla boys and girls flirted - there was an actual carnival. A Ferris wheel spun at dangerous speed above a merry-go-round, while a long, glowing worm on wheels carried people around the town, blaring its police siren...
...these millionaire Marxists view Plan Colombia - President Clinton's $1.3 billion aid package that includes 60 military helicopters, ostensibly to help the government fight narco traffickers...
Along with the presidency, Bill Clinton inherited from President Bush the Somalia deployment - a well-meaning overseas military operation that turned into a nightmare. And as his parting gift, Mr. Clinton will leave his successor an expanding U.S. military commitment in Colombia, which could just as easily turn nasty...
...NHTSA notifies Firestone that it is opening an investigation into the tire failures. Ford recalls tires on some 30,000 Explorers in Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia...
...With each company pointing the finger at the other, however, it's increasingly difficult to get straight answers. Last week Ford admitted it had heard of tread-separation incidents with locally made Firestone Wilderness tires in Venezuela, as well as in Colombia and Ecuador, as far back as the fall of 1998, a year and a half before the company started replacing them on some 30,000 vehicles in the region. It blamed Firestone's misleading diagnosis of the problem for the delay in finding the defect. Firestone says it simply mislabeled some tires as having an extra, protective nylon...