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WORLD, Page 38GRAPEVINE
STAND AND DELIVER. Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's new Prime
Minister, has promised a war against the country's heroin
production, which has quadrupled since 1985. The U.S. will test
Bhutto's resolve next month, when it plans to begin spraying
herbicide on Pakistan's illicit poppy crop under an agreement with
local officials. Crop-dusting pilots are already practicing runs
over the mountainous terrain of the country's North-West Frontier
province. U.S. officials hope that Bhutto will let them have enough
time to finish the job. Last year a similar effort to wipe out
poppy plants lasted all of one day before interests believed to
have ties to the drug world pressured Islamabad into canceling the
flights.
MAKING THE GRADE. The Middle East is the No. 1 breeding ground
for international terrorism, right? Not necessarily. According to
a survey published in Israel by Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center
for Strategic Studies, 23.9% of all terrorist acts involving more
than one state in 1987 were committed in South America. A very
close second: Western Europe, which played host to 23.6% of such
incidents. The Middle East, with 18% of all international terrorist
events, ranked a relatively distant third.
RUN, TONY, RUN. In a letter made public last week, ousted
Panamanian President Eric Arturo Delvalle suggested to General
Manuel Antonio Noriega that they end their feud and "open the way
for national recovery." Some of Noriega's supporters have a better
idea. Militants in the government-controlled Revolutionary
Democratic Party are trying to persuade him to step down as
Commander in Chief of the Panama Defense Forces so he can qualify
legally as a candidate in the country's presidential elections in
May. Success at the polls would serve the dual purpose of further
embarrassing Washington and legitimizing Noriega's rule. But unless
victory is guaranteed, Noriega is inclined to hold on to power in
uniform.