U.S. Drug Czar Slams Guerrillas
From Times Wire Reports
Visiting U.S. drug czar Barry R. McCaffrey said that Marxist rebels are working in an “unholy alliance” with powerful drug gangs that threaten democracy here. A day earlier, two police officers were killed during a raid on a jungle cocaine-processing complex 125 miles south of Bogota, the capital. The deaths brought to 44 the number of police killed in such operations over the past 3 1/2 years.
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