61.   He placated U.S. demands for decisive anti-narcotics measures by producing record aerial eradication of drug crops.

62.   Indians in southwestern Cauca state also blocked the Pan-American Highway to protest the U.S.-backed aerial fumigation of drug crops they say damages the environment and legitimate crops.

63.   It aims to give Colombia the firepower, mobility and intelligence to defeat leftist rebels who protect drug crops.

64.   It would oblige the government to curb violence sponsored by rightist paramilitaries and halt indiscriminate fumigations of drug crops.

65.   It would oblige the government to curb violence sponsored by rightist paramilitaries and halt indiscriminate fumigation of drug crops.

66.   Itinerant harvesters who used to pick coffee or cotton were driven out of work when prices dropped and now pick drug crops, Pastrana noted.

67.   Leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries protect drug crops.

68.   Leftist rebels control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers.

69.   Leftist rebels opened fire on a police helicopter that was helping to spray drug crops Wednesday, forcing it to make an emergency landing that injured two crew members.

70.   Leesburg and Mulgrew worked for the U.S.-based Dainco company, which helps train Colombian pilots to fumigate drug crops, police said.