Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America. Accused of taking million-dollar payoffs in return for allowing narcotics to flow through Panama, Noriega is a graphic illustration of the power of drug lords to intimidate and corrupt the region's governments (see following story). The general is believed to be closely tied to a cocaine trade that begins in the jungles of South America and ends in U.S. neighborhoods from Boston to Beverly Hills. That has helped make Noriega a prime target for U.S. law-enforcement officials and diplomats, who want the general brought to justice and a democratic government in Panama. The U.S. halted economic...
...police have responded to complaints with more patrols. San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos toured the area in an unmarked car and last week announced the addition of 18 extra state narcotics agents to battle the drug traffickers. Residents say cracking down on the crack trade is the only way to halt the violence. The police are not hopeful. "Short of jailing large numbers of people, all we can do is just go out there and stem it as much as we can," says Liljedahl. The transit company has a different answer: when attacks become too frequent, buses are temporarily rerouted...
...hoped would be the final blow. After Botha issued a ten-page enabling decree, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok prohibited 17 leading black organizations "from carrying on or performing any activities or acts whatsoever." At the same time, he ordered the black Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's largest labor federation, with more than 700,000 members, to cease all political activity, including calling for boycotts, work stoppages and the release of detainees...
...immigration officials in Costa Rica and the Bahamas look the other way as some of the hemisphere's most wanted men have walked from their private planes to waiting limousines. Police and military officials in Honduras and Panama have tipped off traffickers to impending raids. Efforts to slow the trade, from destroying coca crops to extraditing traffickers, are bumping against the drug barons' bloody blueprint for expansion...
Several members of Congress have pressed for the U.S. to get tough with foreign governments that fail to make a good-faith effort at halting the drug trade. Each year the President must "certify" whether drug-trafficking countries have made progress. Those that are "decertified" lose U.S. aid, trade preferences and other economic benefits. There is particular pressure in Congress to punish Panama and Mexico. This week President Reagan is expected to decertify Panama. Mexico, however, will probably receive only warnings and be exempted from economic sanctions on the ground that greater punishment might tend to destabilize it and thus...