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Costa Rican border, is thought to be among the world's largest. Bananas are the country's biggest export, and there is ample room for more plantations if money can be found to continue clearing the green jungle. Shrimp is already big business, and the World Bank is financing the construction of a fishing port at Vacamonte on the Pacific coast. Though Panama's lone cement plant, which is privately owned, is now operating at only half of its capacity, the government is finishing up a new $68 million plant of its own that is scheduled...
...third vacation day since taking office last January (the first two were spent fishing), the outdoors-loving Governor paddled down the Yakima River. The party of 27, including Ray's gray poodle Jacques, required four large rafts and enjoyed a luncheon of barbecued beef, avocados stuffed with shrimp, and champagne. "It was really pleasant, floating past basalt cliffs covered with lichen and watching the swallows," says Ray, 63. But near the end, the Governor got the old competitive urge and suggested a race. "We put our minds and paddles to work," says Ray. "And we beat the others...
...ludicrously out of place, a white shrimp boat with canvas canopy chugging through the Gulf of Maine, 120 miles northeast of Boston. It flew no flag, bore no name and carried no fishing gear. The reason the craft had sailed so far north became immediately apparent once suspicious Coast Guard officers went aboard and sniffed the air: below deck were 859 burlap bales containing 25 tons of pot (estimated market value: $15 million...
...capture of the shrimp boat and its Spanish-speaking crew this month was the largest single drug seizure ever made in New England, but it was only the latest sign that drug smuggling along the region's seacoast has swelled to a high and threatening tide. In the past twelve months, the feds have captured 14 vessels destined for New England carrying a total of 82 tons of marijuana. Most of the pot comes from Colombia, Jamaica and Mexico, and it is usually transported on small boats from southern waters (although two years ago a light plane flying grass...
...swept presidential suite of Panama City's Holiday Inn, overlooking a bay speckled with shrimp boats, the mood was clearly jubilant. Chief Panamanian Negotiator Romulo Escobar Bethancourt jumped to his feet and reached across the table to grasp the outstretched hands of U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz. With a smile that seemed as broad as the canal over which they had been arguing for many months, Escobar proclaimed: "This is good. Here are the people...