:02:15
I know that, Larry.
:02:18
Snow flurries along
the northeastern seaboard...
:02:21
Hi. Where are the telephones?
:02:22
-Right over there.
-Thank you.
:02:24
Leonard Adkins
is in a warmer clime...
:02:27
with a story that grows hotter
by the minute.
:02:29
Security was tight today
at Escalan Airport...
:02:31
in the Republic of Valverde,
where authorities report...
:02:35
that deposed
General Ramon Esperanza...
:02:37
will be delivered for immediate
extradition to the United Sates.
:02:40
Only two years ago,
:02:41
General Esperanza led
his country's army...
:02:44
in a campaign against
Communist insurgents...
:02:46
a campaign fought with
American money and advisers.
:02:49
Esperanza's fall from power
caused ripples...
:02:52
not only in his country's
recent election,
:02:54
but closer to home, as well,
:02:56
when high-ranking Pentagon
officials were charged...
:02:58
with supplying him with weapons
despite the congressional ban.
:03:02
But mounting evidence that
Esperanza's forces violated...
:03:05
the neutrality
of neighboring countries...
:03:07
made Congress withhold funds...
:03:09
funds which Esperanza's
accused of replacing...
:03:11
by going into the lucrative
business of cocaine smuggling.
:03:15
Although Esperanza was removed
as commander in chief...
:03:17
earlier this year,
:03:18
the agreement to extradite him
was not reached until yesterday,
:03:22
and Washington insiders say that
a phone call made it happen...
:03:26
a phone call from a...
:03:32
All right, all right.
:03:37
If I could find a phone,
I'd call you... whoever you are.