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...Colombian imprint deepened when Ramon Matta Ballesteros, a Honduran drug dealer, returned from Colombia in 1986 and settled in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. Matta, who has been described as a chief contact between the Medellin suppliers and Mexican smugglers, is wanted by the DEA in connection with the 1985 murder in Mexico of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. In Honduras, which does not allow extradition, Matta is living the good life, flamboyantly dispensing money to the poor who line up outside his palatial estate. His assets are said to amount to more than $1 billion; he reportedly paid...
Rufus:"Hey buddy, whatsa matta wid your pal, de fancy pants ova dare? Whyzee limpin' funny-like...
...ghastly reminder of the intensity of those hatreds came last week when Druze militiamen escorted Western reporters and TV crews into the village of Kafr Matta, southeast of Beirut, which they had just recaptured from the Christian Phalangist militia. The badly decomposed bodies of more than 100 Druze men, women and even babies, apparently victims of a massacre five months ago, were found in houses, streets and fields. Some were grouped around tables still bearing the remnants of what had been their last meal; others were frozen in postures indicating they had been gunned down while attempting to flee. Faced...
Dawn was breaking when the first barrage of rockets and mortars crashed into the small town of Kafr Matta, about ten miles southeast of Beirut, in Lebanon's Chouf mountains. Although the area had been the scene of fighting for ten months as Druze and Christian militiamen battled for control of the strategic region, this time the target was different and the implications for Lebanon's future far graver. The attack was the first salvo in a new challenge to President Amin Gemayel's fragile government...
Druze fighters followed up the attack on Kafr Matta last week with two days of intense shelling in and around Beirut International Airport. The bombardment hit a Lebanese army base south of Beirut and narrowly missed the Ministry of Defense and the presidential palace. Rockets landed perilously close to the headquarters of the U.S. Marine contingent that forms part of the four-nation peace-keeping force. Six U.S. Navy ships pulled out to sea as a precaution, and the Marines went on "Condition 1," the highest state of alert, which requires them to remain under cover...