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Jan. 16, 1989: Grapevine
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 16, 1989 Donald Trump
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 38
GRAPEVINE
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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.
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