COLOMBIA . . . NEW PREZ LUKEWARM ON DRUG WAR
Colombia's new President, economist Ernesto Samper, has no plans to take on the kingpins of South America's most formidable cocaine cartel without international help, he declared after winning Sunday's election. Conservative opponent Andres Pastrana, who wanted to push for greater free-market reforms but lost with 48.6 percent of the vote, intimated in his concession speech that Samper's reticence may have something to do with rumors that he accepted campaign contributions from the drug traffickers.
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