Pubdate: Fri, 19 Jan 2001
Source: New York Times (NY)
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Author: Larry Rohter

U.S. ACCORD UPHELD

The supreme court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1999 agreement 
negotiated with the United States that allows American anti-narcotics 
surveillance flights over Colombia to operate from an Ecuadorean Air Force 
base in the coastal city of Manta. Opposition groups that see the American 
presence as an infringement of Ecuador's sovereignty that will drag their 
country into the deepening Colombian conflict had asked that the accord be 
overturned.
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