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- Dec. 23, 1991: Do Something? We Just Live Here!
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 23, 1991 Gorbachev:A Man Without A Country
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Do Something? Are You Kidding? We Just Live Here!
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- <p>By Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> The American lawmaker had come to Peru for a firsthand look
- at that country's drug-interdiction efforts. "Why so much
- smoke?" asked Congressman ROBERT TORRICELLI of New Jersey as his
- helicopter waited to take off from a military outpost in the
- Huallaga Valley. "They are burning off the forest to plant more
- coca," answered the pilot. As the chopper circled over the
- municipal airport, the legislator noticed frantic activity on
- the runway. "They are loading cocaine," explained his guide.
- "Why don't the police and the military do something to stop
- it?" the Congressman asked his Peruvian hosts when he landed.
- "It is out of my jurisdiction," said the local army commander.
- "It is too dangerous," said the police chief. "It is hopeless,"
- concluded the Congressman.
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