University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1982
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Pakistani raid chokes off heroin pipeline
By TYLER MARSHALL
© 1982, Los Angeles Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—After a shootout that left eight dead and 11 wounded, Pakistani authorities said they had smashed one of the world's principal heroin-producing countries by fire near the Pakistan-Afghanian border.
The action, described by both U.S. and Pakistani officials as extremely significant, can sharply reduce the United States and Western Europe.
Landikolat is viewed by Western drug enforcement officials as the focal point for opium trading and heroin production in the famous Golden Temple in Kashgar, Pakistan, a region that provides the majority of the world's illicit opium.
An estimated 60 percent of all heroin reaching the United States comes from this region either as heroin or as opium, which is later refined into heroin.
Senior officials of Pakistan's North-West Frontier's provincial government said yesterday that Pushtun tribesmen surrendered equipment from six heroin laboratories operating in tribal territory in or near Dikandiot after a tense confrontation with authorities.
titles,
"HEROIN PRODUCTION there has
now ceased," said provincial Home
Secretary Jammed Durki.
But in the wake of a major gunfight between members of two tribes quarreling over how to carry out the surrender, the entire Khyber Pass area remained closed for the seventh straight day yesterday and units of the
Khyber Rifles paramilitary force were still on alert.
Anti-American feeling is said to be running high among tribesmen who believe the government ultimatum was linked to last month's visit to the region of U.S. Attorney Gen. William French Smith.
Slm went to Landikotal amid tight security as part of a fact-finding mission aimed at curtailing drug production.
Pakistani officials said the operation began Nov. 25 after they obtained the exact locations of laboratories and the names of those running them.
Elders of the Sinnwari and Afriid tribes that live in the pass were confronted with the information and given two days to surrender the laboratory equipment or face pumitive government action.
ACCORDING TO government accounts, elders of both tribes agreed to close the laboratories, but on Nov. 29 at a joint meeting on how the surrender would take place, tempers flared and shooting broke out.
The dispute reportedly was between younger members of the two tribes and the elders.
Six tribesmen were killed instantly, two more died of wounds the next day and the government used troops to prevent further bloodshed.
ProvinCIAL officials denied reports that members of the Khyber Rifles used a machine gun.
They said five people were arrested in connection with illegal heroin production, but other suspects escaped and no heroin was seized.
"THE HEROIN produced in these
turbines and heat exchangers
builds is hydro electricity
and does most of the work.
Western diplomats believe the government's success in persuading tribal elders to enforce a ban on heroin production is potentially more significant than the surrendered laboratory equipment.
equipment.
Elders told to impose a fine equivalent to $50,000 and burn the home of anyone violating the ban.
Government officials note that if heroin producers attempt to restart their operations in less accessible tribal areas southwest of the Khyber Pass, the influence of these elders would be the lone deterrent.
If the government, working through these elders, can prevent new laboratories from starting, it would constitute one of the biggest breakthroughs in controlling heroin production since beginning here about three years ago.
Pakistani authorities exert only tenuous control over the fiercely independent tribes that inhabit the frontier.
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LAST FEBRUARY, a raid on a suspected laboratory in the town of Darrah, 25 miles south of here, touched off a major confrontation that involved tribesmen, armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, opposing government forces in a week-long standoff.
The Landikotel operation boosts the credibility of Pakistan's drug control efforts on the eve of President Zaiul-haq's first visit to the United States. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times last month, he said the Landikotel action part of his country's continuing program to stamp out drug production.
He also called for tougher American laws to discourage heroin abuse and for U.S. assistance to help fund Pakistan's poppy crop replacement program.
Cut and sold on the streets of U.S.
city, amount of heroic who would cost
more than $80 million.
Working closely with drug enforcement officials from the United States and West European countries, Pakistan authorities claim to have seized over 1.2 metric tons of heroin from a frontier region over the past 18 months.
Until now, significant successes have been restricted to heroin traffickers smuggling the narcotic out of the country.
Distributed by United Press International.
A raid planned at Landikotal a year ago failed because the producers received advance warning and fled, authorities said.
However, after a truce was negotiated, authorities found little conclusive evidence of heroin production.
Texas escapees caught in car chase near Hays
By United Press International
Nicholas Joseph Rahaley, 39,
Texarkana, Texas, Brett Canning
Maleon, 21, Dallas, and Joe Nathan
Thomas, 25, Dallas, remained in
jail in Hays late yesterday while officers
searched for two other escapees.
MCKINNEY, Texas--Collin County authorities said they would seek to extradite three inmates who escaped from the Mckinney jail and were captured 33 hours later in a small western Kansas community in a stolen car.
The three men were captured in Gorham early Saturday after their stolen car went out of control and overturned as they tried to elude Kansas Highway Patrolman Larry Smith.
Two others who escaped with them were still at large. They were identified as murder suspect Johnny Bazan, 24, being held in the slaying of a McKinney man, and Michelle Gould, 19, being aggrigated robbery, promoting prostitution, theft and probation revocation.
Authorities said they considered both men to be "dangerous."
COLLIN COUNTY Sheriff's office dispatcher Tommy Brooks said the three men being held in Ellis County Jail in Hays faced felony escape charges plus possible charges for car theft and theft of firearms. The inmates was stolen from a Dallas apartment complex, and the tag was taken from Wichita Falls, Texas.
Smith, whose foot was run over during the incident, said yesterday he wanted all three men charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and with eluding an officer.
Rahaleh, the driver of the car,
originally was being held in Collin
County on felony theft charges.
Malone was facing a felony theft
charge. The case was being held for
aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
The inmates escaped from the McKinney jail, about 35 miles north of Dallas, early Friday by sawing off the roof and wire window with a haacke刀。
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