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NATION, Page 40Grapevine
TIMBERRR! Elliott Abrams used to lay the wood to Honduras
whenever it threatened to waver in helping the contras fight the
Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Now the Reagan Administration's
point man for Latin America has teamed up with retired General Paul
Gorman, former boss of the U.S. Army's Southern Command based in
Panama, to profit from their previous official contacts. They are
pushing a scheme to use cargo-carrying blimps to extract mahogany
logs from otherwise unreachable forests in Honduras. Abrams has
also arranged a logging deal in Brazil that will expedite timber
sales to Japan. Says he: "I'm making lots of money. It's great."
HIGH SEAS. When the fleet's in, San Francisco drug pushers
smile. They claim that many U.S. sailors on liberty buy LSD from
dealers in Golden Gate Park to help them get through long, tedious
tours at sea. The hallucinogenic of the '60s may be the choice of
wayward sailors because it metabolizes so quickly that it is
difficult to detect in random drug tests aboard ship.
HOWE NOW? Word on the Washington diplomatic circuit is that
those rumors about Britain's Sir Geoffrey Howe's losing his Foreign
Ministry portfolio in a midterm Maggie Thatcher Cabinet shake-up
are getting hotter. Howe is said to be telling friends that his
days are dwindling to a precious few. His most likely replacement:
Defense Minister George Younger.
STILL SPOOKY. The cold war may be over, but Soviet attempts to
lure American diplomats into spying for the Kremlin are on the
rise. U.S. intelligence sources report that in the past twelve
months, the KGB made three blunt offers to pay money for secrets
to American foreign service personnel. What worries
counterintelligence officials is how many approaches went
unreported.