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...rest of the squad however, including this year's outstanding crop of freshmen, next season looks promising...
...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 in all 1983. But eradication does not work unless it is accompanied by adequate compensation to campesinos for the loss of a crop that requires less work and promises ten times more profit than such alternatives as coffee or bananas. Often, however, other crops cannot flourish on the soil where coca grows. At the same time, the U.S. is not about to send huge infusions of dollars to recompense coca growers stripped...
...paste to a middleman, many Bolivians rely on coca to make the difference between subsistence and poverty. The government, saddled with an annual inflation rate that runs close to 3000% and a crippling foreign debt of almost $5 billion, is equally reluctant about eliminating its most profitable crop. Last year coca accounted for more than $2 billion in unofficial foreign exchange earnings. "Over the past two years," explains a former coca plantation owner, "the only money in the country that counts has been narcodollars...
...second part of the U.S. drive involved the eradication of coca crops, accompanied by a reimbursement of about $120 for each affected acre. For 19 months, brigades of laborers tore out coca plants by hand and sprayed them with herbicide. By last November they had wiped out around one-fifth of the approximately 45,000 acres under cultivation in the upper Huallaga Valley. But after the bloody murder of 19 crop-eradication workers, believed to have been ordered by a local drug czar, the program was suspended for a couple of months...
...people are indeed what they eat, then the 500 guests at last week's Manhattan benefit dinner for the March of Dimes were the cream of the philanthropical crop. Having dished out half a grand each, the glittery gourmands were treated to a five-course meal featuring sweetbreads and | truffles, lobster, frogs' legs and lamb prepared by some of the top chefs of France in honor of Food Critic and Chef Pierre Franey, 64. Proving that too many cooks can spoil the guests, Gastronomic Masters Paul Bocuse, 59, Alain Chapel, 47, Gaston Leniotre, 64, Jacques Maximin, 36, and Roger Verge...