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Bush wants study of 'drug bug'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is pushing research into a possible new combatant in the war against cocaine — a caterpillar with a taste for coca leaves — but officials said yesterday that the insects wouldn't be deployed in South America unless local governments approved.
"We are not undertaking any biological war," said Marin Fitzwater, President Bush's spokesman. "Neither troops nor caterpillars will go in without prior request and consultation."
Peruvian and Bolivian growers supply the vast majority of the world'soca leaves, the raw material for cocaine.
The embassies of Peru and Bolivia did not respond to several requests for comment on the proceedings yesterday by the Washington Post.
the administration's drug budget proposal for the Agricultural Research Service for fiscal 1991, starting Oct. 1, is $6.5 million.
a $5 million increase of the $1.5 million to be spent this year.
The principal focus of that research is the malumbia, a white moth that, when it is still in its larval stage, can coca plant leaves, officials said.
"This is quite a voracious caterpillar," said Walden Klassen, associate deputy administrator for the ARS. "If we could put them in sufficient number, we could then defoliate the plants."
Both Fitzwater and Don Hamilton, a spokesman for national drug control policy director William Bennett, emphasized that the insect research program is in the experimental stage.
"The Department of Agriculture is studying not just coca but other drug plants as well to learn as much about them as possible." Fitzwater said. "This research includes study of herbicide and natural enemies of these plants.
Fitwater said the subject of biological war against drug crops was not broached at last week's drug summit in Colombia.
This program is experimental. Absolutely no potential tool will be considered for use until it is proven
to be safe and effective."
Maureen Hinkle, the National Audubon Society's director of agricultural policy, said, "I think that it's an approach that bears exploring.
But Sandra Marquardt, pesticide information coordinator for Greenspace U.S.A., said the "drug bug" idea might be a proposal that needs to be nipped in the bud.
"Biological controls, when they work, they work like a ballet. The only problem is they need to make sure that the selectivity of the caterpillars is for the coca plants and not to other crops."
“It's an expensive proposition and probably won't work the way USDA wants it to work,” Marquardt said. “The reason is that USDA wants to use an insect and the coca growers have insecticide, so they will just use insecticide to kill USDA's insect.”
The caterpillar of the malaria, a white South American moth, leaves the edges of coca plants in Peru and Bolivia. Coca is used to make cocaine. Federal research has been proposed to determine whether the moth's population can be increased.
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Scientists cultivate new tree for energy
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NEW ORLEANS - Scientists yesterday reported development of the world's first genetically engineered trees, poplars designed for growth on large plantations for energy production.
Growing poplars on plantations has
A mutant gene from a species of bacteria that commonly causes food poisoning was introduced into the trees, making the poplars resistant to the widely used weedkiller glyphosate, which is marketed as Roundup.
been difficult because the young trees can be crowded out and killed by weeds. Weedkillers often kill or damage the poplars, said Bruce E. Haissig, of the U.S. Forest Service laboratory in Rhinelander, Wis.
The ability to withstand herbicides would lower the cost of producing the trees, which grow rapidly and could be burned to provide energy or converted into ethanol to run automobiles, he said.
The trees will survive anywhere in the United States. A demonstration
project has shown that they can be grown in India as a potential source of energy for third world countries, Haissig said.
The research has been partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, he said. Scientists in Minnesota are exploring the feasibility of energy plantations.
Haissig and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and Calgene Inc. in Davis, Calif., gave poplars a gene from salmonella bacteria that produced an enzyme that allowed the poplars to resist Roundup.
Because poplar trees do not flower for 15 years, the researchers do not know yet whether the herbicide resists if the tree is be inherited by the trees' offspring.
Experiments are under way with jack pine, which flowers in two years.
House approves compromise on hard-life bill
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The House yesterday voted, 117-3.
TOPEKA — A bill that would establish a hard-life sentence requiring some murderers to spend at least 40 years in prison is one step away from Gov. Mike Hayden's desk.
to accept a House-Senate conference committee's compromise on the bill. The House and Senate versions of the bill were nearly identical except for some technical differences.
The House overwhelmingly approved its version of the bill Fri
day after amending it heavily during a four-hour debate to make it close to the Senate's version.
However, the Senate declined Monday to concur in an inadvertent House amendment to the bill and asked the House for a conference
committee to discuss it. The conference committee had a short meeting before the House vote.
The only difference between the House and Senate versions came in the wording referring to premeditated murder in one section.
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