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- King Coca
- Growing small amounts of coca for national consumption is still legal in Bolivia, and powerful unions represent some 30,000 coca farmers in the Chapare and Yungas region near La Paz. During municipal elections in December, coca farmers were elected mayors of several towns in the Chapare under the slogans "Vote...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Obituaries.(Imogene Coca, Arlene Francis)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Imogene Coca, the tiny saucer-eyed actress--don't call her a comedienne, she wanted to play St. Joan--died in Westport, Conn. She was 92. Coca came to comedy accidentally, while clowning in the theater during rehearsals of Leonard Sillman's Broadway revue New Faces...
- Research articles 2001-06-11
- Coca eradication may harm Colombia's environment
- The World Wildlife Fund WWF has requested that the U.S. State Department halt its massive effort to eradicate illicit Colombian coca crops through aerial spraying of herbicides, which the group says "pose potentially serious risks to human and ecosystems health." Past eradication efforts have failed to reduce coca output, and...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Coca fumigation in Colombia increases by 84 percent
- WASHINGTON AFP ? The fumigation of Colombian coca fields picked up considerably in the first two months of this year, registering an 84 percent increase over the same period of last year, a State Department official said. "This year, as of February 29, 2004, we have sprayed over 29,000...
- Research articles 2004-03-03
- Woman blames positive drugs test on Peruvian Coca tea
- CHICAGO AFP ? Charmaine Charmelo-Garrido says she never got high drinking mate de coca, the Peruvian tea made from the leaves of the coca plant, so it came as something of a shock when she failed a random drug test. But it was even more of a shock when...
- Research articles 2004-06-14
- Colombian rebels execute 34 coca workers
- BOGOTA AFP ? Colombian rebels executed 34 workers at a paramilitary coca farm near the Venezuelan border, officials said. "The information we have is that they were executed," Manuel Alberto Luna, secretary to the governor of North Santander said. In the early morning hours, rebel command of the...
- Research articles 2004-06-15
- Lethal coca-based "oxy" drug sweeps through Amazon region
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — A new drug far more powerful and deadly than crack cocaine is spreading rapidly through parts of the Brazilian Amazon near the border with Peru and Bolivia. "Oxy", a coca paste-based drug mixed with kerosene and lime, has replaced in the past two years...
- Research articles 2005-04-14
- Coca is better than milk for schoolchildren: Bolivian FM
- LA PAZ AFP — Coca leaf has more nutritional value than milk and should replace it in school lunches, Bolivia's colorful new Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca told reporters. "Our children need calcium and the coca leaf has more calcium than milk," said the official, who in past interviews confessed...
- Research articles 2006-02-23
- Coca Cultivation in Colombia: The Story Behind the Numbers; New Findings Mask Replanting in Other Areas, Human Cost of Fumigation
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The State Department today released findings showing that the cultivation of coca, the base material for cocaine, decreased in Colombia in 2002, from 169,800 to 144,000 hectares. Since 2000, the United States government has promoted a program of intensive aerial spraying, or fumigation,...
- Research articles 2003-02-27
- DRUG WAR: COCA ERADICATION UP, TOTAL PRODUCTION ALSO RISING.
- US-financed eradication of coca crops has reached new levels, even as US reports show that production has increased regionally. Some drug-control officials say they are having record-breaking success with the eradication of coca in the region and reducing total drug availability, but critics are saying...
- Research articles 2005-04-08
- Farmers urged to cash in on coca
- BOGOTA The Colomb an government is offering to buy some farmers' illegal crops of coca " the plant used to make cocaine " in an effort to stem illegal drug production. 'Hand over the coca and take the cash, similar to a country fair, Hand over the...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- US prepared to accept election of Bolivian coca leader Morales: envoy
- LA PAZ AFP — A senior US official said that Washington was ready to accept any democratically elected leader in Bolivia, including the leftist leader of coca growers Evo Morales. Charles Shapiro, the US State Department's assistant secretary for the Andes region, told reporters that the US would support...
- Research articles 2005-07-19
- One step forward in a quagmire; Coca and cocaine in the Andes.(The Andean cocaine industry)
- Progress against coca in Colombia is threatened by the perilous politics of the drug "war" and, as always, by market forces LA MACARENA National Park is a dramatic mountain ridge that cuts like a serrated knife through the tropical grasslands of Colombia. It is ...
- Research articles 2006-03-18
- PERU: DRUG FLIGHTS EXPECTED TO RESUME BUT ERADICATION TEMPORARILY HALTED.
- Even as Peru anticipates a US resumption of drug-interdiction flights, it has temporarily suspended coca eradication in the Apurimac and Huallaga valleys after thousands of coca growers protested against the program. In agreeing to halt the eradication program, the government ended three days...
- Research articles 2001-07-12
- CONOCO EXPECTS RECORD FULL-YEAR EARNINGS, BIG GAINS FROM CARBON FIBERS.
- Executives of Conoco (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB) told security analysts on 5 December that the Houston-based energy company will earn between 79 and 84 cents per share in the fourth quarter, up 60 percent over last year, in line with earlier projections Executives of Conoco (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB)...
- Research articles 2001-01-02
- Letters; On Bolivia's cocaine, prostitution in Britain, Compaq Computer, slavery, advertising regulation, Mandarin Chinese.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- S IR -For a newspaper usually critical of current international drug policies, it must be hard to admit that Bolivia could make such a success of narcotics control ("Coca's second front", January 6th). Your honest report of how this country S IR -For a newspaper usually...
- Research articles 2001-01-13
- Conoco Introducing Revolutionary Carbon Fiber.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Conoco Inc. of Houston, Texas (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB) says it soon will introduce what it calls a revolutionary petroleum-based carbon fiber (Ed. Note - most likely pitch-based or PBCF) with unique applications in the electronics, composite material Conoco Inc. of Houston, Texas (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB) says it...
- Research articles 2000-01-17
- CONOCO POSTS ANOTHER RECORD QUARTER, DESCRIBES JOB OF NEW AUTOMOTIVE MARKET DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR CARBON FIBERS.
- Conoco (NYSE:COCA)(NYSE:COCB) in Houston said that higher prices, increased production and strong refining margins produced record-setting results for the fourth consecutive quarter. Net income before special items for the quarter totaled $574 milli Conoco (NYSE:COCA)(NYSE:COCB) in Houston said that higher prices, increased production and...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- CONOCO HAS ANOTHER RECORD QUARTER.
- Conoco (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB) said that stronger global natural gas prices, healthy refining margins and higher crude oil sales volumes produced record results for the fifth consecutive quarter. Net income before special items for the quarter was $ Conoco (NYSE:COCA) (NYSE:COCB) said that stronger global natural...
- Research articles 2001-05-07
- Beverage Industry's Top 100 beverage companies of 1997.(Cover Story)
- The US beverage industry in 1996 saw an increase in beer consumption as craft brewery sales rose to 4.7 million barrels, bringing total beer production to 180 million barrels. Liqueur consumption remain stagnant and Coca-Col and Pepsi battled for dominancThe US beverage industry in 1996 saw an increase in beer...
- Research articles 1997-06-01
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