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- <title>
- Dec. 16, 1991: Eastern Europe's New Bad Guys
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Eastern Europe's New Bad Guys
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- <p>By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> Just about every kind of entrepreneur has talked up the
- emerging opportunities in the new Eastern Europe, but now
- Colombia's powerful CALI DRUG CARTEL is exploring the
- possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100
- kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After
- the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in
- Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of
- the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug
- EnAdministration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to
- take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship
- narcotics to West European customers. Last week FBI director
- William Sessions visited Warsaw to offer Polish officials help
- in modernizing their police system.
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- </body></article>
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