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Re "U.S. to Aid Nicaragua's AntiDrug Efforts," March 5:
Reading this article does much to explain why America's
war on drugs continues to poison and distort our
relationships with much of Latin America. The
secondpoorest nation in Latin America, Nicaragua, doesn't
need gunboats, helicopters and trained soldiers. It needs
the kind of economic development that helps people feed
themselves and increase their standard of living.

Until we take necessary steps to take the obscene
profits out of drug trafficking, drugs from Mexico,
Nicaragua and elsewhere will keep coming.

GERALD M. SUTLIFF

Walnut Creek, Calif.