Word: speediest
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...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...