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...academic strength of the pool is extraordinary," said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67. "The pools have been getting larger and the quality of the pool has been getting better...
Washington supposedly gave up supporting shaky Latin American governments against leftist insurgencies at the end of the Cold War, and yet it's poised to make a $1.1 billion investment in arming and training Colombia's armed forces. Of course, the emergency aid, contained in a Pentagon funding package that passed the House of Representatives Thursday, is motivated less by ideological affinity with Colombia's rulers than by the war on drugs, but nobody doubts that its net effect will be to beef up counterinsurgency efforts. In instances - and there are many - where the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed...
...Pastrana government to negotiate a peace deal with the rebels have broken down, after the guerrillas violated a cease-fire agreement by expanding their operations well beyond the south, where the government recognized their control. "Pastrana is hoping that when the FARC see this massive influx of U.S. aid to his government, they'll get weak-kneed and be willing to get serious about negotiating a truce," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "After all, this war has been going on for more than 40 years and that gives the FARC a strong vested interest in continuing...
...useful tool for those elements pursuing a "dirty war" against civilians suspected of supporting the guerrillas. Widely documented instances of the military's arming, training, organizing, equipping and sharing intelligence with the paramilitaries - and of those same paramilitaries gleefully massacring civilians - fueled resistance on Capitol Hill to an aid package supporting the armed forces...
...Cocaine is big business, and its only political allegiance is to those who guarantee it the speediest, safest passage to market. With Colombian government economists calculating that the drug accounts for some 5 percent of the country's GNP, it's a safe bet that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion...