FUROR OVER POSSIBLE COLOMBIAN PREZ-DRUG LINK
Colombia was roiling today over allegations that President-elect Ernesto Samper won last Sunday's election with the help of drug money. But in a bizarre twist to the tale, TIME Daily reports, the evidence seems to exonerate Samper. Local TV stations buzzed over what appeared to be the biggest political scandal in the South American nation's history, set off by a "smoking gun" audiotape of leaders of the world's largest drug cartel discussing putative campaign contributions to Samper and the loser, Andres Pastrana. But TIME Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez says a source close to the Cali cartel told her that an unaired portion of the tape shows neither candidate took any money.
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