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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what left law-enforcement officials gloating was the seizure of unprecedented quantities of chemicals used in the manufacture of cocaine. The cache included 417,095 gal. of ether acetone and methyl ethyl ketone, and 95 tons of potassium permanganate -- enough chemicals to make 104 tons of cocaine, a third of the estimated annual cocaine output of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined...
Those seizures underscore a little noted but crucial fact of life in the $130 billion cocaine business: the drug trade is a two-way street. The cocaine flows from mostly Third World producers to the U.S. and other industrialized nations, but the chemicals and other materials needed to turn coca leaves into cocaine flow from the industrialized nations to the Third World. By participating in this Faustian technology transfer, the drug-consumer nations are, in effect, providing vital raw ingredients for the scourge that bedevils them and that they often blame exclusively on coke-producing countries. "Look at all this...
Before the takeover, when Harvard owned public stock in RJR-Nabisco, the University voted for a shareholder resolution asking the cigarette company to provide information on its marketing practices in Third World countries...
...Philip Morris Companies, Inc., another tobacco manufacturer in which Harvard owns stock, are scheduled to take place this spring, Gray said. According to Harvard's finance report for last year, the University held more than $27 million in Philip Morris stock. At that time, Philip Morris was Harvard's third-largest public stock investment...
...Third Period-- 8, H, Donato 9 (Vukonich, Murphy) 10:05. Penalties--H, Howley (interference) 7:14; H, B. McCormack (hooking) 10:46; V, Schulman (holding...