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Able to cover a swath of sky from Iceland to the northern coast of South America, the OTH radar can monitor a smuggler's plane from soon after it takes off in, say, Colombia until it reaches the U.S. When a technician in Bangor sees an unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they...
DRUGS FOR YEN. Colombia's Cali drug cartel, seeking to beat out the rival Medellin cartel, has been recruiting U.S. traffickers willing to go on a long journey. Destination? Japan, a nation ripe for exploitation. Cocaine sells there for $85,000 a kilogram, in contrast to $17,000 in Miami. Japanese police, according to a secret Drug Enforcement Administration cable, do not have a simple computer system to store criminal histories, much less one that can analyze telephone toll records or trace money-laundering trails...
After 15 years of terrorist activity, Colombia's notorious M-19 guerrilla group signed a pact with the government last year and stepped back into civilian life. Former leaders Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez and Antonio Navarro Wolf now want to run for office in the country's March 15 municipal elections. Pizarro Leon-Gomez hopes to become mayor of Bogota; Navarro Wolf mayor of Cali. But they face a serious obstacle: impending trials for crimes that include the spectacular 1985 takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice and the 1988 kidnaping of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Gomez...
George Bush did not need to go to Colombia to boost his already stratospheric approval ratings. True, he wanted to show his support for Colombian President Virgilio Barco's war against his country's entrenched cocaine processors. He also had some serious fence mending to do with Latin leaders aggrieved by the Panama invasion. But while the Cartegena drop-by took place on foreign soil, it was designed for domestic consumption. For Bush to score points at home, all he had to do was go a few rounds on the Medellin cartel's turf and come back alive. His bold...
Bush came up with a new justification for his minimalist role last week. Angered by reports that he had made misleading and deceptive public statements, Bush strode into the press cabin on Air Force One en route to Colombia and announced that he would retaliate by holding fewer news conferences. "It's not good," Bush said peevishly about his usual availability to reporters. "It overdoes it. It's overexposure to the thing. So we've got a whole new ball game." Over the long run, a lack of credibility is much more damaging than a surfeit of attention...