European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes March columns Flora Lewis illicit drug Trade is Savage capita film of ifs worst the Laws of Supply and demand assert themselves in ways that Are not always the proof is the drug the worlds prime example of Savage the focus is on suppliers and their murderous especially in Mexico and the fact is that their multimillion Dollar business flourishes because of demand in the United officials say that military radar in Southern California registers like Clouds of fireflies of Small planes coming in Over the doubtless delivering a participant in the soviet american arms talks in Geneva cited a Pentagon not altogether a that no matter what kind of strategic defences America May the easiest Way to deliver a nuclear weapon to the United states would be to smuggle it in a Bale of the politics of drugs have become High Jeanc Kirkpatrick has blamed Cuba and Nicaragua for promoting drug Trade As a secret weapon in their fight against the United that May or May not be True no Clear evidence has been but an audacious interview Given by a major colombian dealer indicates that what Ever revolutionaries May think about using the traffic for their own drug entrepreneurs find it useful to encourage the disorder that the rebels the interview was made by a Spanish Crew in the colombian and later shown on colombian Tele according to a Washington Post it showed Carlos Lender wanted but never sounding off at his it is Only since last when the colombian president declared a state of siege after the assassination of the Justice that such people As Lender even bothered to he lived on a grand built a disco the published a newspaper and founded a political group called the National latin civic while he admits admiration for for television Lender latched on to a More popular ant authority Point of cocaine and marijuana have become an Arm of struggle against american he we have the same responsibility in this he who takes up a he who plants he who goes to the Public Plaza and denounces soon afterwards there was a huge with a crowd estimated at in Bogota on behalf of the colombian guerrilla movement Only last the Long sputtering rebellion in Colombia seemed to be petering a provisional ceasefire was signed with the government and negotiations were planned on some of the revolutionaries social but m19 has broken off the it called the which was to show it can still rally one of the banners reflected guerrilla Aims with the with to but another was closer to lenders it said James Kilpatrick no to meaning extradition of arrested drug dealers to be tried in the United riot police watched passively As guerrilla leaders arrived by bus and descended to Harangue the the colombian governments attempt to fight the drug empires has apparently driven the Bosses to a new As Well As produced embarrassing evidence of How far the gangs have succeeded in penetrating the Legal in a plane of the National colombian airline was found to have brought Over a ton of cocaine to last officials on the staff of the presidential Palace in Bogota and a colombian Diplomat in Spain were charged with trying to smuggle cocaine in a diplomatic in his to Lender had we have passed the Point of no Lara Tambs and Betancur United to conspire against the interests of this Lara Bonilla was executed by the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was the Justice min who was murdered last Lewis Tambs is the Belisario Betancur is the presi Dent of this is the real latin american Nic Nace to the vital inter ests of the United the motive int its pure the one effective Way to Deal with it has to be to invoke the Laws of the when demand dries so does the source of the threat is inside american the people who buy drugs and keep the Fortun Hunters its not Only illegal to fuel this its president Reagan should make Clear to the country that standing tall is the opposite of c 1985 new York times Syndicate distributed by King features Syndicate a fond Farewell of a departing a Forney general so Many Farewell parties have been Given for William French Smith that the gentle Man is begin Ning to feel like a poached saturated in the warmth of the Praise Hes been the laurels Are fully As the presidents attorney Smith did a superlative he returns to California with a sense of having stayed the he was the first attorney general since Bill Rogers 195660 to serve the entire fou year term of the president who appointed since then we have had quite a Parade Rich Bell and of Edward Levi is remembered chiefly As an academic with Fine credentials in antitrust and Griffin Bell is remembered As the Ablest of the whole Carter the others Are mostly Smith is a born in in he will be 68 in he was graduated from the University of California in 1939 and from Harvard Law school in 1942 following service in world War ii As a naval he returned to los Angeles to join the Law firm of Dunn Hes been with the firm Ever though he was moderately Active californian re publican politics before Smith kept himself scrupulously aloof from partisan politics since he took Over As attorney he is a handsome re immaculately with a Fine Bead of Silver he looks but the adjective carries a con notation of stuffiness that Doest conservatives Admire Smith for a whole variety of liberals tend to dislike him intense chiefly because of their perception of Smith As an attorney general who was soft on civil its a bum the policies that Smith has chiefly through the Topnotch work of William Bradford Rey Are precisely the policies of his the president of the United Smith recently spoke to the Point in a report to departmental employees guiding our efforts is a single principle individuals should be treated As without regard to Creed or ethnic it is that principle that so infuriates Smiths in one instance after Smith and his lieutenants have refused to support racial they have steadfastly resisted racial they have sup ported affirmative action Only where necessary to Correct injustices brought about by deliberate nothing in the record of these past four years sup ports the notion that Smith has soft peddled civil the department of Justice has brought 178 new cases charging criminal violation of civil and it has filed 46 new suits charging discrimination in employ Smith has filed or supported 83 proceeding to enforce the right to under his leadership the department has done Fine work in combating organized the Fig ures Are startling in these four years the department has obtained indictments against nearly persons charged with trafficking in a third of the defendants Are identified As Kingpins of organized partly because so Many mobsters have been sent to drug supplies have declined in half a dozen major cities and mainly because of the government assault on the drug the Index of serious crimes has declined for three years in a Smith can Point to other his department figured significantly in pushing to passage last year a major revision of the criminal he never did win enactment of the immigration Bill on which he Laboured but he leaves a firm groundwork for his successor to build his recent operation conducted by led to a Roundup of fugitives from felony it Hast been All Smith inherited some tenured lawyers who have dragged their feet in pursuing policies of the Reagan Smith had to endure some painful moments when it transpired that his Law firm had awarded him a Large Bonus As Severance even the unhappy moments have been and the rewarding hours have been Smith will be c Universal press Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Pooe represent those of the authors and Are not to be considered As the views of the and stripes or the department of