University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 6, 1989
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U.S. sends helicopters to Colombia
BOGATA, Colombia — Washington delivered five helicopters to help the government. break the drug lords' violent grip on the country and two gunmen killed an army colonel's wife at a supermarket yesterday.
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A police source said the government's two-week-old crackdown on traffickers had virtually paralyzed the nation's cocaine-producing laboratories. A newspaper predicted rising prices and a shortage of the drug in the United States.
The United States delivered five UH-1B "Huey" transport helicopters, modified versions of the combat choppers that gained prominence during the Vietnam war.
They arrived in a huge C-5 transport plane at Bogota's El Dorado airport, the last of the big-ticket items in President Bush's $65 million package to help the government fight its drug war.
In recent days, the United States has sent Colombia five C-130 transport planes and eight AST reconnaissance and attack jets. The aid also
Shortly after the helicopters were unloaded, an apparent bomb threat caused airport security agents to remove passengers and luggage from a jet of Colombia's Aviana Airlines about to take off for Miami. Soldiers cleared the airport and brought in bomb-sniffing dogs.
includes machine guns, bulletproof vests, grenades, boats and trucks.
Police said they had no official motive for the death of Angela de
A suspicious suitcase, shown on a local newt salescar, turned out to be fife.
Guerrero, wife of Army Col. Carlos Guerrero. She was gunned down by two men in a passing car as she stood in a supermarket entrance in a northern suburb.
Police have blamed previous instances of random violence on drug traffickers retaliating for the crackdown.
The National Police said yesterday that since the crackdown began, cocaine production in Colombia has practically stopped and that prices should go up as a result.
The mood in the five camps housing about 5,000 East Germans in Budapest and on the shores of Lake Balaton grew somber, even desperate, after Hungarian officials said it might be weeks before they could move legally to West Germany.
E. Germans may cross border illegally
BUDAPEST, Hungary — East Germans who had hoped to go West legally said yesterday they might risk an illegal dash across the border unless red tape that has stranded them in makeshift refugee camps is unraveled soon.
"When are you going back to Austria?" an East German woman in her 30s asked a reporter near a refugee camp in Budapest. "If the
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stand-off continues much longer, I might just ask you to take me with you and drop me off near the border."
year-old identifying himself only as Rene told reporters outside another camp near Budapest. "We wanted to start fasting two weeks ago, but we didn't because we didn't want to hurt the Huntarians," he said.
About 30 East Germans in one Budapest camp announced they would start a hunger strike Friday if given permission to cross the border.
Yesterday, senior Foreign Ministry official Ferenc Somogy of Hungary reiterated that "a final solution could take days, even weeks."
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"The situation is desperate." a 23-
POLISH CABINET: Solidarity leaders in Poland said that the foreign and transport ministries, both sought by the Communists, remained under discussion but that Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's cabinet list should be complete today.
Bronislaw Geremek, Solidarity leader in Parliament, said the Solidarity caucus would meet with Mazowiecki tomorrow, and the final list of Cabinet nominees would be presented to Mikolaj Ko扎克iewicz, speaker of the parliament, or Sejm.
The aircraft exploded in the crash, engulfing a farm building in a fireball, said Lt. Col. Svein Fredriksen of Norway's Oerland Air Force Base, where the plane was taken. No other injuries were reported.
MECHANIC STEALS JET: — A Belgian aircraft mechanic in Norway yesterday stole an F-16 jet he was trained to fly and crashed into a vacant farm minutes after taking off from an air base, the military said. He was missing and believed dead.
Forty-eight percent of the 118,273 women tested had used oral contraceptives, but most of them were older than 25 when they started. While 1,799 of the participants developed breast cancer, there was no difference in the cancer rate between those who had taken the pill and those who did not.
The study found about a 50 percent increase in the risk among women who took the pill after age 40. Because the pill increases the heart-attack risk among older women, those older than 35 are generally urged not to use it.
largest study ever to examine the effects of birth control pills offers reassuring evidence that middle-aged women who didn't first take the pill until their mid-30s face no unusual risk of breast cancer.
USS IOWA REPORT: — The Navy's long-awaited report into the USS iowa explosion that killed 47 men will point to the "probability" that human intervention may have touched off the explosion but will not cite a specific reason for the blast, defense officials said yesterday.
BIRTH CONTROL STUDY: — The
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