The World - News from Sept. 28, 1989

Canada is increasingly used by drug dealers for laundering their illegal profits, the New York Times reported. Quoting a confidential report prepared by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the paper said that hundreds of millions of dollars are moving annually to Canadian banks from the United States to avoid U.S. laws intended to curb money laundering. U.S. officials predicted that the laundering will increase as trade barriers between the two nations are phased out.