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...every country that limits entry to questing couples, new ones seem to open up. China, where many Canadian couples have successfully adopted, may be a good prospect. Bureaucratic hurdles are harder to jump in Colombia and Peru, but Bolivia and Ecuador seem to be opening up. Postrevolutionary Romania stopped all foreign adoption in July after some money-crazed citizens began offering their children to the highest bidder; Bucharest will allow only registered orphans to leave starting in January at the earliest. There are children available in Poland and the Soviet Union, though Moscow for the moment allows only "special needs...
...round-the-clock search to head him off before President Bush, top Colombian officials and dozens of other dignitaries -- any of whom might have been potential targets -- arrived in New York City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Munoz Mosquera will probably be extradited to Colombia to face trial on charges of murder and robbery...
...island of Cebaco, on the Pacific coast. Suspicious, officers boarded one of the craft and discovered two packages containing 15 kg of cocaine. For Nestor Castillo, police chief of Veraguas province, it was a distressingly familiar episode. "In the past year we are getting flooded with cocaine processed in Colombia," he says. "More than ever before...
Noriega's arrest did disrupt the Panamanian operations of Colombia's Medellin cartel, which allegedly paid the general millions of dollars for passage through the isthmus. But the unexpected result, U.S. experts say, is that the rival Cali cartel established a base in Panama and has since inundated the country -- along with Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean -- with vast quantities of cocaine destined for the U.S. and Europe...
...agent in charge of Miami's Drug Enforcement Administration office, is cruising down I-75, the Everglades Parkway, in his big blue Olds Delta 88. Over his two-way radio, Kennedy hears the squawk of an Air Force Black Hawk helicopter that is tracking a drug-laden plane from Colombia. The dope runner decides to land his plane on an unfinished section of I-75, not far from where Kennedy happens to be. "The copter guys are yelling, 'We have him!' " recalls Kennedy. "And I'm looking everywhere trying to find this...