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| | Dave Kopel & Mike Kause on Drug War in Peru on National Review Online |
 | | On April 20, 2001, at about 9:30 a.m., a Cessna floatplane (tail number OB-1408), owned by the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE), took off from Islandia, Peru, on the Amazon River near the borders of Peru, Brazil and Colombia. |
 | | On board were Americans James and Veronica Bowers (missionaries with the ABWE), their daughter Charity and son Cory, and pilot Kevin Donaldson (also with the ABWE). |
 | | In an interview with Reuters, David Southwell of the ABWE states — and the official report fails to mention — that "no flight plan could be activated in Isandia because they do not even have electricity there. |
| www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel081601.shtml (1353 words) |
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