The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1985
A native of Colombia pleaded innocent in Washington to charges of drug trafficking in a case that government prosecutors said could be of international significance in its efforts to slow the flood of narcotics from South America. Marcos Cadavid, 43, was one of four men returned over the weekend to the United States by Colombia under a 1982 extradition treaty, the first time Colombian nationals have been extradited under the pact. In Miami, the other three men extradited to this country were ordered held without bond pending a full-scale hearing.
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