Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 7,500 acres of coca are grown by Colombian farmers. Until 1980, José Antonio Monroy, 50, grew corn on his ten acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if 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...
...biographer Doris Kearns, the loud protest had a more lasting effect. Johnson's heightened awareness of the depth of his opposition, hammered home by his public appearances led him to withdraw from the 1968 Presidential race--and to call a halt to years of bloody American bombing in Southeast Asia...
...Stratton was truly engaged in research, no one can fault his thoroughness. Before his arrest, he says, he spent time in the company of drug dealers from Latin America to Southeast Asia. At the start of the trial he told reporters, "It took me five years to penetrate the upper echelons of the international drug-smuggling business, to gain the confidence of people who could introduce me into the elite circles." He was never involved in "planning or execution," he says, though "I may have done stuff like close hangar doors." Prosecutors claim that it was more like closing full...
...movements of the Libyan dictator are being closely monitored. About two weeks ago, in the remote southeast corner of Libya, where that country borders Egypt, Chad and Sudan, Gaddafi began to assemble tanks, troops, aircraft and equipment. The target of his destructive designs was unclear. Sudanese officials recently told Washington that Gaddafi was plotting an elaborate coup against their President Gaafar Nimeiri. Having trained Sudanese dissidents as his agents, Gaddafi planned air raids on Khartoum and a takeover of the capital's airport. Last week, however, the Sudanese disclosed that the Libyan-backed saboteurs had been arrested...
DIED. Lao Su, 57, infamous, elusive Chinese-born opium warlord of Southeast Asia's poppy-rich Golden Triangle; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Thai border patrol as he was leading a heroin caravan out of his remote refineries in Burma...