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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 29, 1992
U.S. managers of drug cartel caught with 22 tons of cocaine
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Top U.S. managers of Colombia's growing Cali drug cartel were in custody yesterday, accused of smuggling 22 tons of cocaine confiscated in frozen broccoli shipments and fence posts, federal authorities said.
"We believe they were key, principal managers here in the United States on behalf of the Cali cartel," said William Rosenblatt, head of the U.S. Customs Service in Miami.
The arrests and seizures arose from two separate drug probes: Operation Wizard II and Operation Cornerstone.
The Cali cartel, based in the Colombian city of Cali, has largely replaced the better-known Medellin cartel as the principal supplier of cocaine to the United States and Europe.
Cornstone last year turned up about 15 tons of cocaine hidden in hollowed-out fence posts at a Miami warehouse, said Tom Cash, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami.
Both shipments were organized by Harold Ackerman, whom Cash called the Cali cartel's "ambassador" in the United States.
On April 16, investigators following up on a phone tap found 6 tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of frozen broccoli and okra at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, he said. An additional ton of cocaine was seized later.
Ackerman, a Colombian and nine others from various Latin American countries are in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Miami following arrests over the last three days, said Cash.
An eleventh person charged was still at large this morning; other charges may be brought as the investigation continues, authorities said.
Officers seized nearly one half-million dollars in U.S. currency. Jewelry, cars and other items also were confiscated from Ackerman's home in a posh Miami Beach suburb.
Cash estimated the Cali cartel, headed by Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, was responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine now entering the Miami area.
He said similar packaging found in Miami was used as far away as Warsaw, Poland, and Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Acting U.S. Attorney James McAdams said indictments in the case were pending, and the 10 people in custody were being held on arrest warrants. They are likely to face conspiracy and drug possession charges, he said.
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Taking measurements of the ground in front of Learned Hall, Jason Karlin, Ness City senior, completes a part of the final exam for his surveying lab. Karlin and other students in the lab had to set up instruments and take measurements in a limited amount of time yesterday afternoon.
Surveying his domain
Five anti-abortion leaders arrested for blocking clinic
The Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Federal marshals were ordered yesterday to arrest five anti-abortion leaders accused of violating a judge's injunction prohibiting them from blockading abortion clinics.
The judge's order came as about 150 demonstrators on each side of the abortion issue clashed outside a clinic, resulting in 78 arrests.
"I don't really care a whole lot about the injunction," said Operation Rescue leader Joe Slovenec. "I have an injunction from God to rescue children from death."
Abortion-rights attorneys said they hoped the arrest warrants would discourage abortion opponents, who are in the midst of a two-week campaign aimed at closing Buffalo-area clinics.
"Our hope is to demonstrate that this injunction has teeth, that it's not a hollow threat," said Glenn Murray, attorney for the Pro-Choice Network of Western New York, which sued to obtain the injunction.
But anti-abortion leaders said the arrest order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Arcara would inflame abortion opponents.
"We will not be intimidated by judicial bullying or by the co-opting of the courts by the pro-abortion forces," said the Rev. Robert Schenck.
rat manoney, a leader of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, said a similar order from a federal judge in Wichita last summer prompted the group to prolong its demonstrations there.
The Wichita demonstrations, originally scheduled to last a week, went on
for 46 days and resulted in 2,600 arrests. Operation Rescue's demonstrations in Buffalo are scheduled to end Saturday.
"Wichita was winding down when federal Judge Patrick Kelly issued such an order as this," Mahoney said.
Abortion-rights attorney Lucinda Finley said lawyers were targeting anti-abortion organizers in the hope that it would deter others from blocking clinics.
"They do what their leaders tell them to," Finley said.
Abortion-rights lawyers charged that the five abortion foes led demonstrations at clinics last week that violated Arcara's injunction, issued in February. The ruling prohibits abortion protesters from getting within 15 feet of clinic entrances. Violators could be jailed and fixed $10,000.
The five are: Slovenec, 39, of Cleveland; Jeff White, 34, of Los Angeles; Kenneth Reed, 43, of Citrus Heights, Calif.; Joseph Kelley, 41, of Sag Harbor, N.Y.; and James Anderson, 39, of Stookane, Wash.
Kelley was already in custody, while Anderson and Reed had gone home, federal marshals said.
In yesterday's protest, police arrested 73 abortion opponents who tried to charge a clinic door. Five abortion-rights activists also were arrested.
Clinic director Louise Frawley said the clinic remained open and women were getting in to have abortions.
So far, about 420 abortion opponents and 11 abortion-rights activists have been arrested in the Buffalo protests. The clinics have remained open.
Yale medical school project sends students out to help poor
The Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For 10 years, Michele Barry has sent doctors-in-training to places like Zimbabwe and Fiji to help people who need medical attention and to learn how to practice medicine with limited resources.
Now, the co-director of Yale University's International Health Program has found a less exotic location where medical residents can provide the same services and learn the same skills: New Haven.
"I thought I was being a bit of a hypocrite sending physicians abroad when infant mortality and health has become as bad in the inner city of New Haven," she said.
New Haven is one of the poorest cities in the nation, and its infant mortality rate is 18.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, about twice the national average. Experts blame poverty, drug abuse, poor education and lack of access to medical care.
The Yale School of Medicine is still sending residents abroad, but late last fall it began dispatching medical residents to city soup kitchens. Along with
a solid meal, the homeless can get a checkup.
A team that includes a doctor and several other health-care workers visits one soup kitchen one day a week for two hours. They see an average of 15 patients a trip.
said.
They operate out of a van equipped with a tiny examining room and stocked with over-the-counter drugs, as part of a cooperative effort involving Yale. a city health clinic and a local foundation.
"It's a multidisciplinary approach,
muchlike we do village care," Barry
Food is the first priority of people going to soup kitchens, so the team doesn't usually see people until they're finished eating lunch. One woman diagnosed with appendicitis asked if she could finish her meal before being rushed to the emergency room.
"A lot of these people don't realize they can get free health care," Barry said.
During its stop Thursday at a soup kitchen in the basement of St. Ann's Church, the medical team saw about a
half-dozen patients. Two received immunizations and one patient was given a post-surgical checkup.
"It's hard to tell why people don't seek care. Sometimes they are so spiritually low they just give up. They don't take the time to find out what is best for them," said Ruth Moore, the soup kitchen's assistant director. "When you make it available to them, they respond."
Yale residents in internal medicine are being required to take a four-week rotation through the homeless program.
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