Pubdate: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2001 The New York Times Company Contact: 229 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 Fax: (212) 556-3622 Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Forum: http://forums.nytimes.com/comment/ Author: Larry Rohter, New York Times Ecuador: Drug Deaths The military announced the death of "several" drug traffickers and the capture of others in a remote Amazon region bordering Colombia. The clash on Thursday came after an Ecuadorean Armed Forces unit on patrol just across the Putumayo River from Colombia's main coca-growing province discovered a refining laboratory and a warehouse with processing materials. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D