1.   U.S. officials are disingenuous when they say they are fighting drugs, not insurgents.

2.   He called for increased economic aid and insisted that developed countries, as consumers of cocaine, should share the responsibility for fighting drug trafficking.

3.   Although a former Mexico City prosecutor, Herran comes to the institute with less than two years experience in law-enforcement and no experience in fighting drug trafficking.

4.   American officials say it has seriously damaged cooperative efforts to fight drug trafficking and raised doubts about the authority of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the military.

5.   American officials who once trumpeted Mexican cooperation in fighting drugs now worry that the government has lost control of most of its police.

6.   And attacking the demand side of the problem, the johns, makes sense in fighting prostitution just as it should make sense in fighting illegal drugs.

7.   Bending to Clinton administration pressure, Congress began struggling Wednesday for a way to rebuke Mexico over its lapses in fighting drugs without disrupting the Mexican economy.

8.   Administration officials insist that the security assistance would be aimed primarily at fighting drug trafficking and not at counterinsurgency operations against leftist guerrilla groups.

9.   Advisers said Dole will continue to hammer the president daily for not doing enough to fight drugs, tying the issue to themes of character and integrity.

10.   Aid designed to fight drugs has instead often gone to fight guerrillas whose activities concern foreign militaries more.