Cocaine by radar

Sunday, December 2, 2001

TRES ESQUINAS MILITARY BASE, Colombia -- Protruding above the jungle like a giant white golf ball on a tee, Washington's latest investment in the war on drugs scans the horizon for small planes ferrying cocaine over the Amazon.

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