RE-EXAMINE DRUG WAR, PASTRANA URGES

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- President Andres Pastrana called Thursday for a review
of the global war against drugs, saying it should extend beyond the
U.S.-backed spraying of drug crops.

Pastrana, who is to meet here with Secretary of State Colin Powell next
week, also said Washington's suspension of joint interdiction of drug
flights with Colombia and Peru "has allowed a lot of drugs to pass over our
territory because there is no control of our airspace."

The program was suspended after a U.S. missionary plane was accidentally
shot down over the Peruvian Amazon in April.

Pastrana urged the United States and its allies to establish a policy on
interdiction.

"I think we can truly hit the heart of the [drug] business, through
interdiction and not simply through fumigation," Pastrana told a small
group of foreign reporters.