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...blame for most of this mess," says one Panamanian official. "If there weren't the frightening demand in the States, we wouldn't even have to worry about trying to eliminate the supply." As reports of cocaine use in the developing world circulate, says Enrique Elias Laroza, Peru's former Justice Minister, South American governments lose heart and people "ask how a poor country can win the fight against narcotics trafficking when much more powerful, rich countries have failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

When a neighbor knocked on the front door of Helen and Wesley LaRoza's house in Simi Valley, Calif., outside Los Angeles, he got no answer. Yet he could clearly hear the burbling sounds of water in the fiber-glass and redwood hot tub that had been installed in their backyard. So he knocked again. Finally, when no one responded, he summoned help. The police found the LaRozas floating in the water-dead. Though detectives first suspected a double suicide, the Ventura County medical examiner, Dr. Donald Kornblum, concluded otherwise: "Quite simply, they died of hyperthermia, or heatstroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooling It | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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