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...others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste, Monroy nets $65,000. Inflation along this booming stretch of the Guayabero River is understandably rampant: prostitutes can earn $3,000 a month, coffins cost $450 each...
Police say there were 40 drug-related murders in the area in 1982, and there are stabbings and shootings almost daily. Appalled and scared by the rampant drug trade, the law-abiding citizens of Alphabet Town three weeks ago marched in protest to Mayor Ed Koch's apartment in nearby Greenwich Village. Police officials grumble that only an air strike could clean it up. Because of budget cuts, the complement of 300 officers in the Ninth Precinct, which patrols the area, has shrunk...
...which, if it rocked the boat of industrial nations, sank the developing ones--particularly Jamaica with its total dependence on foreign oil. Simultaneously, commodity prices, the backbone of Jamaica's economy, plummeted, decreasing her purchasing power in world markets fourfold. Unemployment hovered consistently around 30 percent and crime was rampant. Efforts to build a healthy mixed economy were shelved in the struggle to keep Jamaica's economy afloat...
Italy was different. Very different. For starters, theft is rampant in Italy--a type of thievery tinged with miscnievousness. In my first week at work a colleague and I went to his apartment for lunch one day. During our meal the phone rang. His wife answered, spoke briefly and hung...
Indeed it was. The Labor Party remains locked in a bitter internecine struggle between its militant left wing and moderate centrists. In the wake of the Bermondsey result, there was rampant speculation that Michael Foot, 69, Labor's rumpled and largely ineffectual leader, would have to step down before the next general election, which Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could call as early as June...