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<text id=90TT0567>
<title>
Mar. 05, 1990: American Notes:Drugs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 21
American Notes
DRUGS
Fuzzy-Wuzzy Narcs
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<p> Will the next conscript in the war on drugs be an inch-long,
greenish-white beastie with a taste for coca leaves? The idea
of bombarding the high mountain valleys of Bolivia and Peru
with millions of eggs from the malunya moth, which in its
caterpillar stage loves to munch on the foliage of the
cocaine-producing plant, got a lot of play in Washington last
week.
</p>
<p> But, for all its appeal to environmentalists, the notion of
pitting bugs against drugs may never be hatched. Bolivia and
Peru object that the insects could inflict damage on citrus and
other legal crops. Said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater:
"We are not undertaking any biological war. Neither troops nor
caterpillars will go in without prior request and
consultation."
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</article>
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