University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 11, 1989
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Colombian army raids drug-producing area
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Soldiers struck at the heart of Colombia's cocaine-producing region over the weekend, raiding 42 ranches believed owned by drug barons and seizing property including cattle, tropical birds and swimming pools, the army and news reports said yesterday.
In Medellin, the nation's second-largest city, attacks continued. A bomb damaged a liquor factory, hooded assaultists set a city garbage truck on fire, and police defused a bomb at a branch of a government-
run savings bank. No injuries were reported.
El Expectador, the crusing newspaper bombed by traffickers Sept. 2, said Sunday that the army's 14 Brigade carried out the raids during the weekend at the 42 ranches covering 17,500 acres in central Columbia's cocaine-processing zone.
The country's two most-wanted drug bosses, Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, said to be No.1 and 2 in the Medellin cocaine cartel, are among the presumed ranch owners, Brig. Gen. Carlos Julio Gil told the paper.
Defense Ministry sources in Bogota said in interviews with The Associated Press that the newspaper's report from Puerto Boyaca, a center of drug-supported paramilitary "hit squads," was accurate.
Last month, after assassins working for the traffickers killed Sen. Luis Carlos Galan, the leading presidential candidate and an outspoken foe of drug cartels, President Virgilio Barco assumed emergency powers and ordered seizures of bank accounts and property thought to be tied to the drug trade.
Since then, the army and police
have made public numerous confiscated documents showing the purported multimillion-dollar, multinational holdings of Colombia's most notorious drug barons, all currently in hiding.
Colombia supplies about 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States.
Drug terrorists have retaliated with incessant attacks on property belonging to the government and the Colombian establishment, especially in Medellin, where their cartel is based.
The Supreme Court is still debating
whether Barco's emergency powers are constitutional. If they decide they are not, the government might have to return confiscated property.
Soldiers who raided a ranch Saturday in Puerto Boyaca, 9 miles north of Bogota in the notorious Magdalena Medio cocaine-lab zone, found and murdered GRG, presumably fc- Rodriguez Gacha, El Espectador said.
Soldiers also raided a nearby ranch they believe may have been used for paramilitary training for the Medellin carlet's "hit squads."
The paper said the 14th Brigade's
list of property confiscated in the Magdalena Medio, including ranches registered to Escobar and Rodriguez Gacha, included 800 head of cattle, 200 exotic tropical birds, 80 fighting gamecocks, Olympic-size swimming pools, show horses, pedigree dogs, electronic alarm systems and a "GRG" branding iron.
On Saturday the Colombian press told of army raids in Pacho, a town in a cocaine-lab zone northeast of Bogota, that netted 49 vehicles, including two bulletproof Mercedes Benz sedans that allegedly belonged to Rodriguez Gacha.
World Briefs
NIXON TO VISIT CHINA Former President Richard M. Nixon is making plans to visit China and meet with its leaders despite his earlier cancellation of a group trip, said his spokesman.
Political unrest forced him to put off his visit this fall with six friends, among them William E. Simon, former treasury secretary in Nixon's administration, said spokesman John Taylor last week.
Simon heads an investor group that owns several banks in Hawaii and is interested in acquiring a stake in a Chinese bank, said Roy Doumani, Simon's partner. Taylor stressed in an interview that Nixon had no business relationship with Simon.
Taylor said that Nixon had been invited by China's government and that the State Department knew about the former president's plans. No date has been set for the trip.
Nixon has visited the People's Republic of China five times. His first visit in 1972 was the first by a U.S. president and opened the door to normal diplomatic relations.
STUDENT SUES UNIVERSITY-
dALLAS — A former Baylor
University student contends in a
lawsuit that she was forced to quit
school in 1867 because she was pregnant and single.
The Dallas Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Dawn L. Bonner, saying that officials of the university in Waco violated her constitutional rights by failing to tell her about an "unwritten policy" that requires unmarried, pregnant students to leave the school.
The policy is discriminatory, the suit states, because no male student has been forced to leave school. The policy has not been married became pregnant.
The school is run by the Southern Baptist Convention.
A. A. Hyden, emeritus vice president for student affairs, one of the officials named in the suit, and Basil Thomson, legal counsel for the university, said Friday they had just received copies of the suit and had no immediate comment.
CHINA ISSUES SLOGANS:BELI-
ING — China has issued 40 slogans to mark the 40th anniversary of its Communist revolution, including one celebrating the recent suppression of the student pro-democracy movement.
The slogans, compiled by the Communist Party and published yesterday by the official Xinhua
News Agency, are a mixture of self-praise for the nation's accomplishments and admonishments to do better in such areas as corruption and education.
Since the revolution 40 years ago, China has made heavy use of slogans in newspapers and on billboards and signs to express policy and exhort people to follow it.
One slogan, opening with declarations hailing the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and its "great achievements" in modernization, calls on people to "warmly hit the successful quelling of the turmoll and the counterrevolutionary rebellion."
China claimed the bloody June 4 military crackdown on students and their supporters in Beijing was necessary because demands for democratic reform had become a counterrevolutionary rebellion attempting to overthrow the government.
TURTLES SLOW DEVELOPMENTLAS VEGAS — High-rolling developers betting on a housing construction boom in the Las Vegas valley have been stopped in their tracks by the designation of a turtle as an endangered species.
The federal listing of the desert tortoise — Nevada's official state reptile — prohibits disruption of the animal's habitat. The listing has already blocked off-road races and threatens cattle grazing on some federal land and some military activity.
AFGHAN WAR STALEMATES; PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The United States and Pakistan are backing a guerrilla government-in-exile as the only alternative to Communist rule in Afghanistan. But six months after it was formed, the rebel Cabinet is feuding openly and has yet to move onto Afghan soil.
The guerrillas, many concentrated in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar, predicted the Marxists would not last more than a few weeks after Soviet combat forces withdrew from Afghanistan in February.
But the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which continues to receive massive Soviet aid, has held its ground.
The Communists are defending Kabul, the capital, and other key Afghan cities. The insurgents, called mujahdeen or Islamic "holy warriors," still control much of the countryside.
Lawmaker says CIA bungled Afghan war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The CIA and Pakistani intelligence have bungled the war in Afghanistan, threatening to turn what appeared to be a victory by anti-Communist guerrillas into a triumph for the Soviet-backed government there, a U.S. congressman said yesterday.
"The CIA has secretly pursued a wrongheaded Afghan policy for years," the chairman of the Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Rep. Bill McColum of Florida, said in an editorial in the Washington Post.
The most recent blunder, he wrote, was to shut off the supply of U.S. arms while pressuring Afghan guerillas into launching an assault on the Afghanistan city of Alalabad near the Pakistani border.
At the same time, the Soviet Union continued massive arms supplies to its client in Kabul, enabling that government to withstand the assault.
The siege of Jalaibah has turned into a stalemate that threatens to stall the entire resistance movement
State Department was to give control of U.S. arms shipments to the guerillas to Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence, that nation's equivalent of the CIA, McColum wrote.
But the policy allowed generals around the late Pakistani strongman, Mohammd Zia ul-Haq, to bolster an Islamic fundamentalist whom McColum compared to Libyan leader MoMamargh Ghadhafi. The policy slighted tribal leaders who had more support in Afghanistan.
In 1976, ISI recruited Guladin Hekmatyar, who was then a "firebrand fundamentalist student leader at Kabul University" and who now heads Hebi-IIslami, one of seven Afghan resistance parties based in Peshawar, Pakistan, the congressman wrote.
Hekmatyar was censured by the leaders of the six other parties this summer after guerrillas under his control ambushed and killed 32 leutantes of the leading Afghan government, who are said to be souls, who belongs to another party.
The key mistake by the CIA and the
That highly publicized action fit a pattern, McCollum said.
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