Part of the reason for the support of Clinton's
request for $1.3 Billion to
fund an "anti-drug" war in Columbia stems from
the following interesting
little tidbits.
Why 30 Black Hawk helicopters for the Colombian
military? It just
so happens that the manufacturer of that helicopter,
Sikorsky Aircraft
Corp., is in the district of Rep. Sam Gejdenson, the
ranking member of the
House International Relations Committee. Connecticut is
also home to Sen.
Christopher Dodd, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign
Relations
Subcommittee on Narcotics. Occidental Petroleum, which has been
hit in the
past by leftist guerrillas and is seeking to drill on tribal land
in
Colombia, has paid Al Gore's family $20,000 a year since the 1960s
for
unused mineral rights on family land and has also contributed hundreds
of
thousands to Gore and the Democratic National
Committee.