The World - News from Aug. 4, 1985
Seven members of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control arrived in the Colombian resort city of Cartagena in an effort to enlist Colombian aid in the U. S. campaign against the cocaine and marijuana traffic. The group, headed by Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), arrived two days after a Colombian newspaper reported that four army officers, who were later dismissed, received payoffs from drug dealers during a raid on a cocaine factory last year. The congressmen plan an aerial inspection of marijuana fields.
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