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Transcript: Burmese Drug Trade Burgeoning Despite `Crackdown'
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- March 8, 1994
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: Good morning. I'm Bob Edwards. In London, The
Times reports that the home of Lillian Cole [sp], and 80-year-old
widow, was raided by three big men wearing masks. Cole told the robbers
that she was poor too, and she sympathized with them. She told them
how she uses hot water bottles at night to keep the heating bills
down. When Cole was through talking, the men returned her money and
her valuables and left the house. You're listening to NPR's Morning
Edition.
[newscast]
EDWARDS: A new report on drug trafficking says that the problem has
worsened in the past few years due to increased sophistication and
cooperation among drug ...