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Lebanon Seen
As Drug Center

The Israeli police said Lebanon
is a major center for drug pro-
duction, especially heroin, in their
annual drug squad report.
They said Lebanon exported
several tons of heroin in 1993, de-
' spite a fall in opium production
from poppy fields in the Syrian-
controlled Bekaa Valley. Opium
production fell because of climate
reasons or intervention by au-
thorities, will be balanced by a
rise in imported opium, which is
treated in dozens of laboratories
in Lebanon, according to the re-
port.
Lebanon has also become a big
cocaine producer, the report said,
after importing base cocaine from
Latin America.
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osted by Peter Benchley, author
of Jaws and White Shar

Democratic Rule
Not Guaranteed

Haidar Abdel-Shafi, the incor-
ruptible Palestinian nationalist
who led the original delegation to
the Washington peace talks but
who refused to accept a seat on
Mr. Arafat's "National Authori-
ty", says that democratic rule can
be guaranteed in Mr. Arafat's
new fiefdoms.
The selection of members of
the self-rule authority and of
Palestinian police officers, he
says, "depended mainly on polit-
ical and personal loyalties rather
than on efficiency".
And within a week of Mr.
Arafat's arrival in Gaza, a phe-
nomenon long familiar to those
who endured the PLO's militia
rule in Lebanon appeared in the
city. Farid Jabu, a 28-year-old
taxi driver accused of "collabora-
tion" with Israel, died officially of
a mysterious "heart attack" - in
PLO custody in Gaza City; but
his family said that when his
body was returned to them, it
bore the marks of severe beat-
ings.
How soon, Mr. Arafat's oppo-
nents are asking, before members
of the Democratic Front or the
Popular Front or Hamas or Is-
lamic Jihad end up dead in the
PLO's police stations?
Mr. Arafat talks about democ-
racy and free debate; but one of
his first public steps was to open
a Palestinian radio station on 702
metres — the same wavelength
used by his Palestinian oppo-
nents to transmit their "Voice of
Palestine" broadcasts from Dam-
ascus. Thus the president who
complains about the "Arab
predicament" began by jamming
the words of his Palestinian an-
tagonists.
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