21.   Months of joint investigations proved drug connections to Bolivia, Chile and Colombia, government spokesman Kellawan Lall said Thursday.

22.   The Anti-Narcotics Squad of the Sao Paulo police department said Fleibner was recruited by members of the so-called Nigerian drug connection.

23.   The ethnic rebel groups have been reluctant to openly ally themselves with Khun Sa for fear that his drug connections will discredit their causes.

24.   Today, opium and all illicit drugs are banned in Indonesia, but the drug connection continues with its former colonizer.

25.   Gonzalez, who is being investigated by authorities for his drug connections, said he was resigning for personal reasons.

26.   According to a police communique, the three, whose identities have not been revealed, are part of a drugs connection between southern Spain and Britain.