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...code name for the Colombia operation was Hat Trick. The plan was to deploy dozens of Coast Guard and Navy vessels across a wide sweep of the Caribbean to intercept the huge shipments of marijuana that are transported from Colombia to the U.S. at the conclusion of the pot harvest in November and December. The elaborate strategy called for Colombian soldiers to move against marijuana traffickers in the Guajira Peninsula, between the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean. With Venezuelan and Panamanian soldiers guarding their respective borders, the smugglers would be forced to ship out the marijuana...
...what has been labeled Africa's worst famine yet, 300,000 people have already starved to death in Ethiopia and an additional 1 million may perish before the storm begins to abate. Up to seven million currently risk starvation while still others will suffer from prolonged malnutrition. Domestic harvests scheduled to commence next month probably will yield only two thirds of the usual total and the next major harvest is not expected for another year. There's no guarantee that those harvests won't fail; specialists have estimated that a minimum of 600,000 metric tons of grain will...
...cause of Ethiopia's agony has been a series of disastrous harvests caused by the prolonged drought. The harvest of teff, the grain crop that provides the main source of food for Ethiopians, was very poor last winter, according to a U.N. senior official in Rome, and the secondary crop that came in last spring was "a virtual failure." Said the official: "The tragedy in Ethiopia demands not only an immediate response but a sustained response...
With colorful sets and costumes, the first act opens on a magnificent set of Madame Lenaux' Louisiana farm. The women are dressed in calico and straw hats, and the men are milling about, reveling in the sun and the sugar-cane harvest...
...ambitious 20-year development scheme, calling for the reclamation of 44.5 million acres of desert and swamp land, mainly in the country's temperate southern regions, by the end of the century. In the meantime, Moscow will have to make up for this year's poor harvest with extensive imports. Ironically, help is coming from the Reagan Administration. Under a new five-year grain-sale pact, the Soviets have been buying corn and wheat from the U.S. at near record levels since July...