61.   Some U.S. drug agents think the renewal should be used as a lever for greater Mexican cooperation.

62.   Still, the drug enforcement agents eagerly accepted the offer as a rare chance to cooperate with the Mexican military and improve their relations with the general.

63.   Speaking off the record, some federal drug agents echo this view.

64.   The arrests came as federal drug agents have made it increasingly difficult for drug cartel money-launderers in New York to wire cash.

65.   The Clinton administration has also pressed Mexico to permit American drug agents here to carry firearms for self-protection.

66.   The caller, it turned out, was an undercover federal drug agent.

67.   The club has been closed since a raid last August by state drug agents, prompted by complaints that healthy and underage patrons were buying marijuana.

68.   The flow of Colombian heroin also is increasingly routed through Nigeria, drug agents said.

69.   The futility of fighting the drug war by devoting so many resources to one man dawns on top drug agents only at the end of the book.

70.   The informant put Hernandez in touch with an undercover federal drug agent posing as yet another drug dealer, according to testimony at a hearing last month.