In addition to bribing foreign officials and bankers, Mr. Naqvi has been indicted on charges of helping the Medellin cartel to launder millions of dollars in cocaine profits in the 1980's.

The promise of cocaine profits is causing an increasingly uncontrollable situation.

By this interpetation, the Cali cartel was able to raise cocaine profits by reducing production and exports.

Two Colombian drug traffickers arrested last weekend had agreed to hand over $1 million in cocaine profits as a down payment for a "substantial number" of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, F.B.I. officials said today.

We learn that the London hooker and pimp use their cocaine profits to become part of the landed gentry: "So you could say that this part of our tale had a happy ending."

In addition, the Government had agreed to drop a civil action seeking $410 million in suspected illegal cocaine profits held by the bank.

In it, the authorities charged that five Colombians took part in an elaborate scheme to launder millions in cocaine profits originating from street sales in New York City, Florida and elsewhere.

American officials have said that Mr. Milian laundered more than $200 million in cocaine profits for the Medellin drug cartel.

The authorities charged at least 33 people and a corporation today with laundering more than $500 million in Colombian cocaine profits through jewelry merchants in New York, Los Angeles, Texas and Florida.

The extradition and prosecution of Mr. Vivas are part of an investigation into a gold-shipping network that laundered cocaine profits from 1987 to February 1989.