NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1985 Page 11
Helms denies smuggling charges
By United Press International
'SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Sen. Jesse Helm challenged President Jose Napoleon Duarte yesterday to prove allegations that he was involved in a multimillion-dollar smuggling ring to help Salvadoran rightists.
17 The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador released a statement by Helms, B.N.C., demanding that Duarte and "Christian Democratic Party" prove legislative linking the conservative senator to a cash-smuggling ring.
Francisco Guirola Bechee, a Salvadoran businessman, and two other men were indicted Friday in Corpus Christi, Texas, for allegedly trying to smuggle $5.8 million in cash to El Salvador.
Guirola, 33, reportedly a close associate of ultra-rightist leader Roberto d'Aubusson, is being held in jail in lieu of $1 million bail. He is charged under a U.S. custom laws.
that says all money transfers of more than $10,000 out of U.S. territory must be reported to authorities.
D'AUBUSSION LOST TO Duarte in presidential elections last year. Helms was an outspoken supporter of d'Aubusson during the campaign.
The Christian Democrats have recently taken out full-page newspaper advertisements saying "the government is unable to achieve supplying his close friends who are trying to corrupt the country's electoral process."
Helms' statement said the ad was false and absurd.
"I challenge President Duarte either to put forward any evidence in the possession of the Christian Democratic party, to urge legislative or to repudiate these spurious statements of his party," Helms' statement said.
Duarte reacted sharply to the statement, saying was disrespectful to his integrity.
SPEAKING AFTER A ceremony to honor 259 military officers, Duarte
said the Foreign Ministry should reply to Helms because Helmus was meddling in El Salvador's internal affairs.
"It is fine if he responds to whatever action that is in dispute inside the country and that implicates him but never refute the president of the country," Duarte said.
On the battlefront in El Salvador's 5-year-old civil war, left guerrilla las virtually stopped highway traffic from the front of a new economic sabotage campaign.
El Salvador's leftist guerrillas said the economic sabotage campaign was aimed at disrupting the transport of recently harvested coffee, sugar and cotton, the country's leading exports.
Guerrillas burned two passenger buses on the Troncal del Norte highway 10 miles north of San Salvador and then fought government troops that had been sent to clear the rebels out, military sources said.
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