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...field hospital to treat the casualties. In Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ranger was assaulted one night when he inspected a parked car and chanced on a kidnaper and his victim. Everglades National Park in Florida has become a major thoroughfare for illegal drugs from Colombia and elsewhere. Arizona has robberies, assaults, rapes and sex parties in its Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah is the scene of drug feuds, arson and marauding motorcycle gangs. On a single summer day in Yellowstone National Park, when as many as 30,000 people visit natural...
...concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...
...product label bears the word poison and the skull-and-crossbones insignia, but terrifying people in order to modify behavior is not a registered use." Still, Florida officials remain committed to paraquat, in part out of support for the Reagan Administration's policy. Washington has urged Colombia to spray the herbicide on its marijuana crop, but the country refuses to do so until the U.S. does the same to its own. Even if the U.S. begins using paraquat, many Government experts fear that domestic marijuana production has gone too far to be undercut at this late date. Says...
...audience, not gullibility exactly but a kind of craving, a deep need for moral definition. One detects tremors of both the talent and the need in Latin America. That part of the world is breeding up unexpected, wonderful writers the way Russia did in the 19th century Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for example, has huge extravagant resources...
Some Latin American officials are pessimistic about the precedent that has been set by Argentina. Colombia's Foreign Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds fears a "Malvinas syndrome" in which governments will use war to forge national unity in the face of serious internal problems. Lemos Simmonds also blames the U.S. and the industrialized nations for their unrestrained competition in arms sales. Says he: "At the moment, there is no more dangerous area of the world than Latin America." Cuba has offered to send troops and arms to Argentina, but the most that U.S. experts expect Havana to gain is propaganda...