41.   Assets could not be seized without a legal finding that the companies were deliberately involved in the drug trade.

42.   At every meeting they heard complaints about how prostitutes left jail after paying minimal bonds to stalk neighborhoods, fostering petty crime and a thriving drug trade.

43.   At about the same time, President Clinton gave Colombia a failing grade on its efforts to stop the drug trade.

44.   At first, the inquiries focused on possible links to the drug trade.

45.   At the time, Ruiz Massieu cast himself publicly as a crusader against the drug trade and the corrupt officials who took bribes to abet it.

46.   Because of funds from the illegal drug trade and donations from landowners, the paramilitaries are expanding even faster than the guerrillas.

47.   Beltrones filed suit about a year ago against the leading Sonoran daily, El Imparcial, after it published a story linking him to the drug trade.

48.   Bernstein said they all point to CIA involvement to the drug trade.

49.   Besides earning millions of dollars through the illegal drug trade, the FARC regularly kidnaps civilians for ransom despite its involvement in peace talks with the government.

50.   Blandon testified that Meneses taught him the drug trade.