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*   By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson
*   Washington Post Foreign Service
*   Sunday, September 8 1996; Page A01
*   The Washington Post
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*   Due to their new 'Mexicanization policy':
*   Mexico became the main gateway into the United States for illegal
*   narcotics, with the amount of cocaine making the journey climbing to
*   an estimated 210 tons last year.
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*   Mexico's drug arrests plunged nearly 65 percent, from 27,369 the year
*   before the policy changes to 9,728 last year, according to data that
*   the Mexican government supplied to the State Department.
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*   Cocaine seizures in Mexico were cut in half, dropping from more than
*   50 tons in 1993 to slightly more than 24 tons in each of the last two
*   years -- the smallest amounts since 1988, Mexican government figures
*   show.
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*   The GAO report charges that Mexico's greatest problem is, in
*   fact, the "widespread, endemic corruption" throughout its law
*   enforcement agencies. Earlier this month, in an indictment of his own
*   department, Attorney General Lozano fired 737 members of his federal
*   police force -- 17 percent of his entire corps -- saying they did not
*   have "the ethical profile" required for the job. In a recent meeting
*   with foreign reporters, Lozano said it could take 15 years to clean up
*   the force.
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*   In November 1993, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive
*   No. 14, shifting U.S. anti-drug efforts away from intercepting cocaine as
*   it passed through Mexico and the Caribbean, and, instea