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Show POPS The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Albright Views exports that were an. attempt by drug traders to conceal cocaine or Anti-Drug Efforts heroin shipments. In Colombia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARTAGENA, Colombia Sécretary of State Madeleine Al bright got a firsthand look Saturday at Colombian efforts to intercept cocaine shipments at this stéamy Caribbean port. She came aWay impressed with government sleuths’ high-tech tools — and the methods. drug lords use to circumvent them. “That's fantastic,” Albright said when shown an Internet hookup that allows Colombia to President Andres Pastrana, appearing with Albright at a news conference, cited the near dismantling of cartels in Medellin and Cali as an indication of Colombia’s progressin the drug war “Wecan and will do more,” he said. He said European donors will meet in June or July to make pledges to assist Colombia in fighting the drug trade. Albrightsaid the two countries are sharing a “very important moment” and are “fully in harmony” on high priority ob jectives. Albright’s visit was further evidence of the growing alliance be- cennect with 286 ports in 80 coun- tween Washington and Colombia, the source of 80 percentofall the cocaine used in the United States. counterdrug campaign. Colombian drug lords also have emerged in the past decade as a tries as part of an integrated She also was Shown manifests purporting to document legal major force in heroin trafficking. Here PPR Fe oe eee All Sunday, January 16, 2000 Chinese Leaders Fear Powerof Religion THE WASHINGTON POST marking the these days the Communists are an apolitical, spiritual organiza- Lu said. “They realize there is a spiritual void in China. They know most people are cynical aboutpolitics, so they won't follow struggles” of 1999 BEIJING —A series of recent clashes between the Chinese gevernment and a varietyof spiritual groups indicates that religion — more than traditional kinds of political dissent — has emerged in the eyes of the Communist Party as one of the most serious threats China’s agricultural heartland. In first time since China's 1949 Com: munist revolution that smashing os an official priority of tl Western diplomats and human rights groups report that the crackdownis spreading to China's the democratic activists. But they will follow a new messiah.” China, on the cusp of a new manycases, the government has tolerated the renaissance, some governmentofficials and Communist Party members have defied central government dictates by practicing religion iy. Now, however, the Communists find themselves in a quam dary. As society has grown enwious of the wealth and freedom en- V0 to its monopoly on power. Last week, an important Ti- betan Buddhist lama whose loyalty China had tried to cultivate surfaced in India, where he had fled into exile. Then, Beijing roiled the Vatican by appointing five Roman Catholic bishops in defiance of the pope. And as the government crackdown on the Falun Gong meditation movement continued, President Jiang Zemin made a striking announcement that the massive campaign was one of the “three majorpolitical network Catholic and Protestant “house churches,” which serve an estimated 30 million to 40 million believers who,worship il legally in private homes. Since December, Beijing has used a law outlawing Falun Gong to sod10 Christian sects as illegal “cult More than 100 Christian ears have been arrested, said Frank Lu, head of the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China. “While China continuestojail any democracyactivistit can find, century, is witnessing what even state-run publications call a “golden age” for religion. The government officially sanctions five religions: Buddhism, which now has 100 million adherents; Islam, with 18 million; Protestantism, with 15 million; Catholicism, with 4 million; and smaller numbers of Taoists. However, unapproved cults, sects and underground religions are prospering — from temple gods in the northwest and ancestral worship in the south to the house-church movement in = joyed in the West and the government has moved to embrace free enterprise, traditional Communist ideology — that'of Marxism-Leninism, leavened by the thinking of Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping — haslost much of its appeal. The editor of one of China’s largest newspapers said he and other party members feel.as though China is “at the end of a dynasty, when traditionally all sorts of cults and sects rose upand challenged the emperor's rule,” A Mens De Selectedstyles. a 50 NOW *29-*39 Men's Levi Jeans & Khakis Orig. 32-45. Men's Designer Fashion Jeans — Orig. *58-*78. Dillard's Selection varies by store. Limited to’stock on hand. 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