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JEFFREY SACHS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE IN Poland in the early fall of 1989, within weeks of Solidarity's overwhelming triumph in the June parliamen- tary elections-a veritable blast of can-do American energy and self-confidence. The country's economy was careening wildly, veering inexorably toward hyperinflation, and Solidarity's new legislators were utterly unprepared for the powers and responsibilities which were suddenly and unex- pectedly being thrust upon them.
WASHINGTON'S RAVE REVIEWS OF BOLIVIA'S New Economic Policy almost never consider the country's most important source of revenue and employ- ment: coca, the raw material of cocaine. Bolivia is the second largest producer of coca in the world, behind neighboring Peru.
THE COCA GROWERS UNIONS HAVE BEEN AT the forefront of efforts to turn U.S.
THE CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE growth of the informal sector erupted suddenly into national politics in the 1989 elections. A brand new political party, Patriotic Conscience (CONDEPA) polled a fourth of the votes.
"UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE permit a militarization of the struggle against drug trafficking." The words ofa coca producer or militant union leader? No, President Jaime Paz Zamora speaking to the Bolivian press in May 1990, days after he signed an agree- ment with the U.
THE INCREASING NUMBERS OF WOMEN smuggling donated U.S.
Last Crossing SAN CLEMENTE, California. Hun- dreds of illegal immigrants coming north from Mexico have been killed or in- jured in the past four years as they try to run across highways in an effort to avoid capture by immigration agents.
ROBERT GELBARD IS RETURNING TO WASH- ington this summer after three ,years as U.S.