1.   United States government accusations that the army did not wish to fight the cocaine trade and often colluded with traffickers threatened bilateral relations and future US aid.

2.   As U.S. attorney, Thompson warred against a surge in drug trafficking in Georgia at a time when the cocaine trade was being pushed northward from Florida.

3.   Authorities had hoped that crackdowns on potassium permanganate imports would seriously disrupt the cocaine trade.

4.   Burma has also been under fire for what federal drug officials have called its growing reliance on the heroin and cocaine trade to fuel economic development.

5.   But Colombian drug lords eventually want to monopolize the U.S. heroin market, just as they do in the cocaine trade.

6.   But military officials familiar with the programs said they concentrate less on weak links in the cocaine trade than on shortcomings of the Colombian army.

7.   Cocaine use is bad news, and people involved in the cocaine trade are bad people.

8.   FARC is a growing force in the cocaine trade.

9.   Guerrillas and the cocaine trade batter Colombia.

10.   He even ran a cocaine trade out of one of the Long Island properties he had obtained illegally, the government said.