Word: corr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington's most effective weapon is still its most direct one: cutting off drugs at the source. "The closer you are to where it comes from," explains Ambassador Corr in Bolivia, "the more bang you get for your buck. By the time it gets to East St. Louis or Champaign, Ill., it's all over the place." U.S.-backed programs of coca eradication have enjoyed some measure of success: last fall in "Operation Federico" in Brazil, 9 million epadu plants were burned while workers in Peru slashed down more than 5,000 acres, three times more than...
...sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department was told, after being tortured. In Bolivia, intelligence agents discovered that Colombian and Bolivian cocaine traffickers had paid a gunman $500,000 to murder U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr (the ambassador continues to drive around La Paz, varying his routes and his routine each...
...policy. His army meanwhile pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and payoffs from drug dealers. In despair, local U.S. drug enforcers closed their office. As soon as Siles brought back democracy in 1982, however, the fight against drugs resumed. The DEA reopened its office and President Reagan appointed Corr, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters, as ambassador. Ten months after taking office, Siles signed a bilateral agreement with the U.S. for a five-year, $88 million program to fight cocaine. But the effort remains an uphill struggle. "The mere fact that they're beginning...
...Golden, Colo., brewer showed little concern about the sound-alike name until last year, when Corr's started showing up in grocery stores in 50 states. The beer company sued in a Denver federal court, demanding that Corr's change its name. Coors claimed that the tiny soda maker was trying to trade on the brewer's identity. As evidence, it cited one of Corr's slogans, "Made with pure Rocky Mountain water," which barely differs from the beer company's famous motto...
When the two sides met in court last week, Judge Sherman Finesilver asked them to try to work it out themselves. But the talks may resemble a family feud. Said Corr: "This is a basic principle, and I'm prepared to fight...