University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 6, 1990
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Barco asks Bush for support
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Outgoing Colombian President Virgilio Banco yesterday promised that his successor would continue the fight against narcotics trafficking and asked for U.S. backing for his efforts.
Barco, who will leave office Aug. 7, met with President Bush in the Oval Office for 40 minutes and told reporters later that his drug-plagion nation would continue its efforts to stop the flow of cocaine northward.
"We will continue that because we believe in that. And the next president of Colombia, the president-elect,
also has been ... stated that he
would continue to fight drugs, and
I'm sure that he will receive the
backing of the United States," he
said.
Barco, who has met with Bush several times on the issue of illegal narcotics, was prohibited by the country's constitution from seeking re-election. He came to the United States on Monday to give the commencement address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Barco's successor, Cesar Gaviria,
was the only candidate in last month's election to take a hard-line stand against drug traffickers who use Colombia as a major processing and transport center. Gaviair has complained that Colombians were dying in the drug wars while other nations did little.
In his victory speech, Gaviria called on developed countries to cut cocaine consumption and to work harder to control arms trafficking and money-laundering by cocaine traffickers.
He also asked the United States to
drop trade impediments against Colombian exports and to increase aid to his country.
Barco, in his meeting with Bush, also raised 'trade questions', said White house spokesman Bill Harlow.
Gavinia has said exports like coffee and flowers should receive preferential treatment, but Harlow said it might raise the coffee or flower issue.
After the meeting, Barco brushed aside questions on flowers and coffee agreements, indicating those were matters yet to be resolved.
Nation/World briefs
Bomb scare forces emergency landing
VICTORY FOR MRA: The Senate refused to limit debate yesterday on wide-ranging anti-crime legislation containing curbs on semiautomatic weapons. Sponsors warned that the militarist could doom the measure.
The Associated Press
PRESTWICK, Scotland — A Pan Am jet carrying 208 passengers and crew from West Germany to Washington made an emergency landing in Scotland yesterday following a bomb scare. Police took one passenger into custody and, as a result of the incident, up two pieces of suspicious luggage.
The Senate's refusal handed a victory to the National Rifle Association, which suffered a sharp reversal on the gun issue two weeks ago and since then has been pressing to keep debate open.
There appeared to be no explosives
hours after making the emergency landing.
in the luggage, said police sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Police refused to identify the man taken into custody or disclose his nationality. They also declined to say where the luggage that was blowed up is.
The bill would bar imports and domestic manufacture of nine semiautomatic rifles and pistols.
"The crew received an allegation that there was possibly an explosive device on board," said a statement for Strathley钻, based in Glasgow.
by the Explosive Ordinance Depot, " according to the statement.
The Boeing 747, Flight 61 from Frankfurt to Washington, resumed its journey last night, according to controllers at Prestwick airport, five
The Stratthcyle police force contributed much of the personnel for the investigation of the bombing of a warehouse in the town of Lockerbie in December 1988.
"A full search of the aircraft has been carried out, items of baggage were removed form the hold and a controlled explosion was carried out."
That bomb killed 259 people on the New York-bound flight and 11 people on the ground.
JETT, GLIDER COLLIDE: A U.S. Air Force jet fighter collided yesterday with what police said appeared to be a girl killing the civilian pilot of rider.
The F-16 fighter jet, which had been on a training mission when the collision occurred, returned safely to the airfield. The pilot was not hurt, the Air Force said.
"The F-16 returned to Hahn Air Base with minor damage," the Air Force reported. Hahn Air Force base is near the western air city of Trier.
The accident occurred near Unkenbach, West Germany, 62 miles southwest of Frankfurt.
JURY SELECTION
CONTINUES: Marion Barry's lawyers say yesterday that they may call his campaign manager and city official as defense witnesses at the mayor's drug and perjury trial.
After a day of prospective jurors filling out questionnaires, lawyers and U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson spent yesterday in face-to-face questioning of the people charged with 14 criminal charges against Barry.
ARAB BOY KILLED: Israel's soldiers shot and killed an 8-year-old Arab boy yesterday in a confrontation with bank refuge camp local reports said.
The army spokesman's office said the military commander in Nabula, the West Bank's largest town, was among the circumstances of the shooting.
The fatality quickly triggered more unrest in Askar as several hundred angry Palestinians gathered for the boy's funeral and some unfurled the outlawed Palestinian flag.
You should know:
Soldiers clamped a curfew on the camp of 9,000 to contain the disturbances, the army said.
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