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...ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
...working with shovels at the bottom of a metal-and-fiber-glass-filled hole about ten feet deep. This is the impact point where the AC-130 crashed to earth. To facilitate the search, the team first sliced the ground open with hunting knives and then cut away the soil an inch at a time. Now the men pass shovelfuls of dirt to Laotian soldiers waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil...
Opponents of arms-control talks have long justified their skepticism by citing Moscow's long-standing refusal to allow arms inspectors on Soviet soil. Last week the Soviets took a small step toward spiking that criticism. At a ceremony in Vienna, the U.S.S.R. signed an agreement that for the first time allows the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect carefully selected parts of Moscow's civilian nuclear industry. Said Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrovsky at the signing: "On the eve of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva, we feel it is necessary to create a favorable atmosphere...
...than in all 1983. But eradication does not work unless it is accompanied by adequate compensation to campesinos for the loss of a crop that requires less work and promises ten times more profit than such alternatives as coffee or bananas. Often, however, other crops cannot flourish on the soil where coca grows. At the same time, the U.S. is not about to send huge infusions of dollars to recompense coca growers stripped of their income. "We just can't afford it," says a Washington official. "If we gave money to Peru or Bolivia, other countries would start growing coca...
...stake now. In the great farm century a way of life was established that profoundly shaped the nation. The heartland became, in Madson's view, "a repository of traditional attitudes that are metered out through the root system in subtle but powerful ways. It is a region whose soil base has lent the freedom and stability that men need to reach free and stable conclusions...