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...deluged by drugs, the accessory trade has become a multibillion-dollar industry. The profits are high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they are producing," says...
...giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
Ironically any campaign to change American coffee habits would probably be overshadowed by last year's drop in coffee prices. Salvadoran coffee beans that sold for $135 per 100 lbs. last summer fetch just $70, a plunge that has slashed the country's export earnings by at least $175 million, or about 30%. Says Ernesto Altschul, a senior adviser to Cristiani: "I can't imagine they can hurt our coffee industry any worse...
Ploy number two is to target foreign (especially Third World) markets, where citizens are less aware of smoking's dangers. Even as the U.S. government condemns South American coca producers who export their drug to the U.S., American tobacco companies are selling their drug in locales such as China and the Philipines at record rates...
...elected or not, will survive long if Africa's evident destiny -- to drown in debt -- is not reversed, and that will require enormous assistance from abroad. With its current debt of $135 billion roughly equivalent to its gross national product and its debt-service obligations equal to half its export earnings, sub-Saharan Africa faces an intolerable situation that has produced instability and promises to breed more. If the West really wants to see democracy take root, it must first give a helping hand to the continent's economy...