NATION AND WORLD
Page
Drug task force goes after small users
University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1985
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Individual users of marijuana and other drugs may soon be prosecuted as part of a national narcotics "conspiracy chain," the head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force said yesterday.
Charles Blau, a deputy associate attorney general who oversees the program, said that prosecutions of small-time users would be aimed at controlling the demand for drugs.
Blau said that by sending some users of small amounts of drugs to jail, a message could be sent to other users.
users. "The other side of this equation
basically is the demand side," said Blau, after presenting an impressive array of statistics on the large number of major drug distributors who were successfully prosecuted in 1844. "People are out there using these drugs, and we have not broken that curve. The question is, 'What are we going to do about it?'
BLAU SAID, "A person who utilizes a controlled substance which is illegal as is much a part of the conspiracy chain as the person who distributes it, and as such should be held as a member of that conspiracy."
targtec, now the Drug Enforcement Administration and other areas of the Department of Justice have concentrated on eliminating major drug networks and their leaders.
spaces. "We're going to look at it, basically, as whether or not we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this person was involved in the
organizational structure that we targeted." he said.
Last month the Customs Service announced that it would begin making public the names of people caught smuggling small amounts of drugs for personal use. Blau said the two decisions were not related.
ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWIN Meese will meet April 15-16 in El Paso with 13 task force coordinators to, in Blau's words, "talk about basically where we ought to be going in the next four years within this program and how well we're doing.
And that's (going after small users) obviously one of the issues that's going to come up."
Meese said March 20 in an appearance before the Washington Press Club that those who are occasional users of drugs are part of a "blood trade" that deals in "terror, torture and death."
Meese warned that "there is no such thing as a harmless recreational drug," and said he wants "the individual drug user(s)." to understand the moral responsibility that they bear. . . drug use is a part of the total seamless cloth that covers the underworld."
Blau said that such prosecution would be highly selective.
Graffiti, chants protest slayings
6,000 attend funerals of two leftists
By United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Shouting "Pinochet is to blame," 6,000 mourners opposed to President Augusto Pinochet marched through downtown Santiago yesterday in a funeral procession for two of three slain leftists.
Many in the crowd were members of the Communist Party, and the march was believed to be one of the largest public demonstrations by the outlawed Communist Party in 11 years of military rule by Pinochet.
Opposition labor union leaders called for mass protests April 11 against Chile's military government for the murder of the three popular leftists believed killed by right-wing death suals.
Killed were teacher Manuel Guerrero, 36, and sociologist Jose Parada, 34, both members of the
Communist Party; and painter Santiago Nattino Allende, 64.
GUERRERO AND PARADA were being buried yesterday. Allende's body was being held at the city morgue for identification purposes.
Youths dressed in black and wearing red arm bands used aerosol paint cans to spray walls with anti-government graffiti.
As black limousines carrying the two coffins draped with the party's red hammer-and-sickle flag moved through the center of the capital, hundreds of people looked from office windows and threw paper confetti.
The bodies of the three men were found with slit throats and multiple stab wounds Saturday in a field on the campus where they were killed after they were seized by gunmen.
The killings shocked the nation and were condemned by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and opposition political parties.
The government denied allegations that its security forces were involved in the murders and called on the judiciary to open an investigation.
GUERRERO AND PARADA, a sociologist who worked for the Catholic church's human rights organization, were forced at gunpoint Friday into a car with no license plates that sped away.
Riot police used water cannons to disperse more than 300 demonstrators who shouted "assassins, assassins" on the steps of Santiago's Cathedral, where some 5,000 worshipers attended Palm Sunday mass presided over by Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno.
The National Workers Command, an umbrella organization of opposition labor unions, called for nationwide mass protests against the government on April 11.
"We want an end to a situation in
which government opponents can be seized and turn up with their throats cut," labor leader Manuel Bustos sad.
PINOCHET CALLED A Cabinet meeting to study the wave of violence that has left six people dead since Friday night, including two youths and a woman killed in shootouts between security personnel and alleged leftist guerrillas.
Catholic bishops also held an emergency meeting and made a plea to try for an end to the "vicious circle in the country in the past week.
The Christian Democratic Party, the main opposition force, termed the last killings "horrendous and repulsive" and said the killings had all the earmarks of the 1982 assassination of Labor party leader Tucapel Jimenez, whose body was found with 25 stab wounds in an abandoned taxi
South African policeman contradicts government
By United Press International
UITENHAGE, South Africa — A police commander, who in March gave an order to shoot into a crowd of 4,000 blacks, yesterday contradicted a government statement that officers had been attacked with bombs before opening fire.
Lt. John Fouche, giving testimony to a jurist assigned to investigate the March 21 incident, said he gave the order to shoot a man who was part of the crowd of black mourners was going "to kill white people."
Official reports said 19 people died in the shooting, making it the worst police slaying since 69 people died at Sharp's attack on Mayor Carter on March 21, 1960. Township sources put the death toll at 44.
The shootings occurred as a crowd of about 4,000 black marched from Langa, a black township outside Uitenhage, to a church where the outlawed funerals of victims of earlier racial violence.
AFTER THE SHOTSING, Law and Order Minister Louis Le Grange told Parliament the police officers fired after blacks threw fire bombs at them. Government officials also said police had arrived on the scene in an armored
truck
Fouche, contradicting Le Grange's statement, told Judge Donald Kannemeyer that he gave the order to open fire after a woman in the crowd threw a stone at the officers, who were in two armored vehicles parked across the road.
He said he thought his men were in danger.
"I believed my men and I would be overrun and killed if I did not give the order to fire," he said.
"I had the impression the crowd was on its way to the white residential area of Uitenhage," he began with his way to kill white people."
Under cross-examination by Win Trengove, representing the families of the dead, Fouche said police reports that his men were surrounded or that they were locked from behind were not true.
"THE FIRST STONE was thrown before the shooting .and then I shot a man who was about to throw a stone .and then many stones were thrown at us," Fouche said.
Police said the riot-torn black townships of the eastern Cape provinces around Uitenhage were quiet yesterday, but stonings and arson were reported near Kroonstad.
THE COMEDY SHOP IS AT GAMMONS TONIGHT!
BRAND NEW
SUNRISE TERRACE
APARTMENTS
Leasing for the Fall!
If you have a group of 3-4 looking for something new & spacious right by the campus, stop by our office at Sunrise Place, 9th & Michigan or call 841-1287.
OFFICER
OPPORTUNITIES
AVAILABLE NOW!
CALL 913-841-1821
CELEBRATE THE JOY!
Easter Sunday
April 7, 1985
Concerned about passing the CPA EXAM?
Now Downtown In The Marketplace
By the Harvest Cafe.
8th & New Hampshire
BITE THE BIG ONE!
yello
sub
ARBUTHNOT'S
Hallmark
M.F. 10-8
Sat. 10-5
Southwest Plaza 23' & Iowa
841 2660
Becker Field Trip Sat., April 6, 1985
If interested call Tim Kriegshauer before Fri., April 5 841-4591
This Weeks Special Turkey Club
½ Turkey club
$1.50 w/coupon
1 coupon/sub/customer expires 04/08/85
ADC KU FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Attention
KU and KUMC staff, faculty, students and all relatives: Are you aware that your credit union is one of the best in Kansas? The KU Federal Credit Union offers the following services to its customers:
- Checking Accounts: 7% APR,paid monthly,no minimum balance, no monthly service charge, no check writing fees.
- Savings Accounts: 7% APR, paid quarterly
- Monev Markets, IRA's, & C.D.'s
If your current financial institution does not provide any of these services, please call or come by one of our three convenient locations.
- Consumer loans, home improvement loans, & real estate loans
- Free money orders and travelers cheques.
Lawrence
(913) 749-2224
603 W. 9th
(9th & Louisiana)
n Office 5-Mon
Lawrence (913) 864-3291 Branch Office 101 Carruth O'Leary 9-5 Mon.-Fri.
Main Office 9-5 Mon-Fri.
Drive-Up Window 8-7 Mon-Fri.
Kansas City
262-0179
Branch Office
3838 Rainbow Blvd.
Rainbow Towers
9-5 Mon.-Fri.
-All accounts are NCUA insured up to $100,000.—
Concerned About Our Community
Keeping Our Kids in Kansas
Today's children are more technologically sophisticated than any other generation. So, as they grow, they'll demand that their communities provide a progressive economic environment and expanding business opportunities. If they don't see progress at home.
hey'll seek their fortunes elsewhere. Southwestern Bell Telephone believes in the future of kids and in the future of our state. We know that the two go hand-in-hand. We also know that our efficient and broad-based electronic communications network is becoming essential to business growth. Southwestern Bell Telephone is using advanced technology—electronic switching, digital transmission and lightguide fibers—to improve the voice, video and data communications capabilities of our network.
believes in Kansas. We're doing all we can to insure a prosperous future... and to keep our kids in Kansas.
If you have any questions or comments about Southwestern Bell Telephone, write or call: David Nichols, 714 Vermont, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 749-7148
Southwestern Bell Telephone
1