Reply #9: In a related story, Vice President Dick Cheney today announced . .

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. . . that airplanes carrying inexpensivly priced Canadian pharmaceuticals from the US to Canada would be shot down by military planes. Planes heading to popular cross-border destinations such as Winnipeg, Victoria and York, Ontario, would be among those subject to interdiction and shootdown, though the Vice President noted that he could not give too many tactical details.

"These potentially dangerous drugs, flown from American drug production lines into Canada, are a menace - perhaps - to the health of Americans who think they're getting a bargain by breaking the law,' he stated. "This racket of reselling bargain-basement drugs of questionable safety will not stand."