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BOLIVIA: Coca Growers Sign Antidrug Accord
Bolivian peasant unions algned an agreement last weak tnatearger role in setting tne government's antidrug policy. Unions tor coca growers ocKnovrfedged tor the llrat tlma that excess coca production feeds the narcotics moustry. and the grows tentallveiy agreed lo voluntary crop substitution. The signing ot the accordolatile situation in tneChapare region, where tatmers clashed recently with Bnilnaicoiics police-[ "|
Comment: Tha agreementirst step in cooperation between tha government and peasant unions on the drug problem, but it may actually sad to lhe difflcuitos the government luces- in pasting the US-bached (eg-'statcn scheduled to go before the Both/tan Congress In early August. Many peasant leaders oppose the draft lava requirement tot forced eradication, and will probably try to usop suMtltufon agreement to thwart enactment ot more stringent measures. Tlte government faces an uphill battle In pushing the legliatlci th-oueh: Its efforts ate likely to Os hi'ther complicated by rumora that President Paz has cancer. | [CIA, (MA, MSA-
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