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...doesn't have any regrets about his career and accomplishments, Rawson still feels a little bit sad about the demise of inter-collegiate boxing at Harvard. Boxing became an intramural sport here in 1937 and the Ivy League no longer has any varsity teams, with only Harvard, Dartmouth, and Colombia maintaining it as a club sport...
...March 4 arrest was dramatic. Gun-toting Drug Enforcement Administration agents stopped a van near Philadelphia and pulled out VICTOR MANUEL TAFUR DOMINGUEZ. Justice Department officials proudly announced he was a fugitive drug trafficker who would be the first Colombian ever extradited from the U.S. to Colombia...
...problem: it seems Tafur, 36, is actually a lawyer who worked in a coca-eradication program in Colombia. He came to the U.S. for treatment after a plane crash and was studying environmental law when Colombian prosecutors asked that he be detained. On Dec. 3, 1998, police there seized seven tons of cocaine in Cartagena. Prosecutors claim $350,000 of Tafur's money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father...
...speediest, safest passage to market. With Colombian government economists calculating that the drug accounts for some 5 percent of the country's GNP, it's a safe bet that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion has for the most part filled the shortfall. And even if Colombia was unable to meet...
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