NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1985
Page 11
3 officers charged in murder of agent
By United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Three Mexican police officers have been charged in the kidnapping and murder of a U.S. drug agent, and four others being held in the case were indicted on lesser charges of drug and arms trafficking, a federal judge announced yesterday.
Jalisco State police agents Gerardo Torres Lepe, Victor Manuel Lopez Razon and Juan Rufo Solorio were being held in the Eastern Penitentiary after being charged with the kidnap-murder of Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot.
Torres, Lopez, Rulfo and four other men held for questioning in the Camarena murder were also indicted on charges of drug possession and trafficking, and of trafficking arms reserved for use by the military.
THE CHARGES STEMMED from information from court documents, which showed all the accused had illegal contacts with drug overlords, serving as guards and informants in return for money and drugs.
All seven men recanted their confessions, saying they were tortured.
The statements charged that Gabriel Gonzalez, who was the chief of the Guadalajara homicide division, ordered the agents to run errands for drug traffickers, guard their lavish
parties and pass on tips about drug roadblocks.
Gonzalez died while in federal custody, reportedly of a hemorrhaging pancreas.
Rafael Caro Quintero, identified as one of the country's biggest drug kingpins, may have been the one who killed Camarena and a Mexican pilot while under the influence of cocaine, the documents showed.
CAMARENA'S BATTERED body and that of his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar, were found on an abandoned ranch near Guadalajara March 5. Both men had been kidnapped within hours of each other Feb. 7 in Guadalajara, 300 miles northwest of Mexico City.
According to the documents,
Razon, the homicide squad leader,
ordered Torres to go to Caro
Quintero's house early Feb. 7 "to see
what Rafael Caro Quintero and
Ernesto Fonseca want."
Once there, Caro Quintero's top bodyguard drove them to the U.S. Consulate.
Camarare went along without protest after the bodyguard showed him a credential from the Interior Ministry's Federal Security Division, the documents said.
Torres said in his confession that "Caro Quintero killed them (Camarena and Zavala) after torturing them and buried them there on his ranch."
U.S. businessmen take stand on apartheid
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa took a strong stand against apartheid yesterday and made public its recommendations for abolishing laws that discriminate against the disenfranchised black majority.
"The time has come — and it might be far too late — for the business community in this country to take a stand on discriminatory legislation." Chamber Chairman Frank Lubke
said at a news conference in Johannesburg.
"Whether it is directly business-oriented or not, the social implications affect every single business in the country," he said.
The chamber represents 300 American companies employing about 130,000 South African blacks and worth about $12 billion in investment inside the country.
IT WAS THE first time U.S. businessmen in South Africa had made formal recommendations to the country on its policy of apartheid,
the institutional segregation and discrimination of blacks.
instructor. Lubke released copies of an eight-page memorandum, given to Constitutional Development Minister Chris Heums on March 7, in which the chamber offered specific recommendations on most aspects of racial policy in South Africa.
Referring to the growing U.S. movement calling for the withdrawal of investments from South Africa, Lubke said, "I think South Africa has underestimated the disinvestment issue.
ssue.
"The threat of disinvestment is
very real to companies here and it would have a major effect on the social work U.S. companies are doing communities of their black employees."
The group urged the abolition of laws restricting the movement of blacks in the country and the extension of full property rights to blacks in their own residential areas.
It called for a halt to the forced removal of blacks from areas designated for white occupation and the phasing out of the migrant labor system
Arms talks resume; details not released
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — U.S. and Soviet negotiators met in the third session of the arms control talks yesterday but apparently were unable to agree on a timetable for tackling the separate issues of strategic, intermediate and space weapons.
The two sides met for two hours and 40 minutes at the Soviet Union's mission to the United Nations after a four-day recess. During the recess Moscow's chief negotiator accused Washington of being an "extraterritorialist" with weapons issue, and Belgium distributed 16 U.S. cruise missiles.
The three senior negotiators for each nation attended the meeting. They were Max Kampelman, John Tower and Maynard Glitman for the United States and Viktor Karpov, Yuli Kvitinsky and Alexei Obukhov for the Soviet Union.
AFTER THE SESSION, the U.S. delegation said only that the two sides would meet again Thursday at the offices of the U.S. Arms Agency in an mnt Agenty. It did not reveal what was discussed yesterday.
Officials said the next meeting would be a plenary session that
would include the three senior negotiators from each side. This seemed to indicate a continuing lack of agreement about when the talks should be divided into working groups to discuss the separate issues of space, strategic, and intermediate-range weapons.
The Soviet Union has said there can be no agreements on reductions in strategic and intermediate-range nuclear weapons until there is an agreement on space weapons - President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
In a development between meetings, Belgium distributed the first 16 of 48 missiles as part of a NATO plan to counter the more than 400 So@t! SS-20 intermediate-range missiles targeted on Europe.
In Moscow for the funeral of President Konstantin Chernenko last week, Leo Belgian Foreign Minister Leel Tindemans offered to put off the distribution if the Soviets would end their insistence on negotiating space and nuclear weapons as a package at Geneva.
Such an agreement would have paved the way for a separate agreement on the intermediate-respondents of more concern to Europe.
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