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Drugs and the war against them have a habit of corrupting Latin America's politics - and that could put Washington right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military...
...killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening involvement in Colombia could eventually draw the U.S. into an intractable civil war (the ghost of Vietnam was invoked more than once in Thursday's congressional hearing on the aid package). But whether or not the Colombian military is using paramilitary killers to fight a dirty war, legislators may also find cause for concern in the progress on the war on drugs in the Latin American state - despite hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the authorities...
Galluccio prides himself on his one-on-one work with constituents, and says that being Cambridge's youngest mayor in decades will aid him in trying to improve public education for all students...
Duehay said he thinks Galluccio, who served as vice mayor during Duehay's last term, will aid the city...
Forward Onnie Mayshak, whose developing inside presence should aid Harvard's offensive attack in the coming games, emphasized the need to play hard and play together...