U.S. Drug Czar Slams Guerrillas
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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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