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...learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very rapidly. "It's easier to grow than any other crop in the Amazon," says a U.S. embassy official. Brazil has also begun to master the more advanced stages of the trade...
...from where the Olympic spirit first caught fire, Greece's Charalambos Holidis, 28, seems poised to carry the Parthenon bodily to Los Angeles. Yet the menacing pose of the Greco-Roman wrestler is only part of the picture. True, Holidis is the reigning European champion in the 57-kilo category (roughly 126 Ibs.), and he might have held the world title had he not broken a finger during last year's competition. He finished second, winning high marks for courage and determination. "You should have seen him fighting," says the president of the Greek wrestling federation. "He just refuses...
...wholesale price per kilo has plummeted 50%, from $60,000 in 1981 to $30,000 now. "They've got to move the inventory," says Sergeant Skip Pearson of the Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau. "It's like an end-of-the-year sale." Explains Bureau Commander Arthur Nehrbass: "Right now, it's a buyer's market. We've been offered coke at $28,000 per kilo on credit, with two weeks...
...other U.S. cities, though New York City and Chicago prices, either wholesale or retail, have not yet been affected. A year ago, coke was selling for about $60,000 in Atlanta; now it fetches a bargain-basement $36,000. The Drug Enforcement Administration in Los Angeles estimates that a kilo of wholesale coke has dropped to $45,000 from as high as $60,000 a year...
...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...