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- <text id=90TT0567>
- <title>
- Mar. 05, 1990: American Notes:Drugs
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 21
- American Notes
- DRUGS
- Fuzzy-Wuzzy Narcs
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Will the next conscript in the war on drugs be an inch-long,
- greenish-white beastie with a taste for coca leaves? The idea
- of bombarding the high mountain valleys of Bolivia and Peru
- with millions of eggs from the malunya moth, which in its
- caterpillar stage loves to munch on the foliage of the
- cocaine-producing plant, got a lot of play in Washington last
- week.
- </p>
- <p> But, for all its appeal to environmentalists, the notion of
- pitting bugs against drugs may never be hatched. Bolivia and
- Peru object that the insects could inflict damage on citrus and
- other legal crops. Said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater:
- "We are not undertaking any biological war. Neither troops nor
- caterpillars will go in without prior request and
- consultation."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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