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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes july Hanoi troops in Cambodia rile Shultz Bangkok a Secretary of state George Shultz condemned monday what he called the illegal and arrogant Viet namese occupation of Cambodia and met in Thailand with three guerrilla leaders who Are fighting Hanoi a senior state department official trav Eling with Shultz declined comment on a newspaper report that the Central Intelli gence Agency has been covertly providing millions of dollars since 1982 to two non communist cambodian resistance the Washington Post quoted informed sources in Washington on monday As say ing the Aid was but that Cia officers work closely with thai military men who advise the guerrillas along the thai cambodian who arrived monday in Bangkok to begin a on week tour of Southeast was to Fly to that Border on he was to meet with some of the Cam Bodian refugees who recently fled into thai territory and with frontline thai military Shultz met for 40 minutes with prime minister prom tins Vanonda and Reaf firmed Washington support for Thailand and the other members of the association of Southeast asian in a Short Shultz lashed out at Vietnam and noted that the soviet Union is its prime he said fighting along the thai cambodian Border has created severe problems for thais living in that and signed an agreement providing million to help the state department briefing reporters on the condition that he not be identified by said the United states was pleased with Vietnam recent announcement that it would turn Over to the United states the remains of 26 americans killed in the Vietnam War and resolve with in two years the Issue of some Ameri cans still missing in but Shultz added that Washington re Gards the problem of the mias As a Sepa rate humanitarian Issue and would not link it to the vietnamese presence in Cam Bodia and other the official said that the remains were expected to be repatriated within the next six to eight but that the vietnamese Side has not yet Given a Shultz praised thai efforts in recent years to eradicate the growing of from which heroin is and moving against drug traffickers and warlords in the so called Golden thai foreign ministry spokesman Sawant Vongsiri told Shultz also assured Prem that the administration of president Reagan will continue to oppose protectionist legislation in con Sawant Thailand is fearful that a Bill before con Gress would severely reduce its textile exports to the United which is thai lands largest foreign Shultz met later monday with two Lead ers of the Khmer Peoples National liberation front military commander chief Sak Sutsakhan and Abdul Gaffar and with Prince Norodom whose Prince Norodom Heads another no communist cambodian resistance the state department official said the three presented a strikingly positive Atti tude when briefing Shultz on their Mili tary despite a dry season Viet namese offensive that wiped out virtually every guerrilla Camp along the thai am Bodian they made no pretence of evicting Viet Nam militarily from but of exerting pressure on Vietnam to bring it to the negotiating the state depart ment official he said the administration is studying ways the United states could help the Resis Tance in the nonmilitary legislation before Congress would provide the two non communist groups with million in eco nomic ran Aridth later told reporters that his movement is not receiving any funds from the Cia and added maybe they gave me one baht 4 the state department official said he could Nei ther confirm nor deny the Washington Post since it is department policy not to comment on matters related to the relations have been close in recent and Shultz was accorded a warm he also was to meet tues Day with Thailand constitutional but pow Erful King hum Biol the Only known protest came from a group of activist students at Bangkok ram Khamhaeng who issued a statement calling on the United states to Stop interfering in the internal affairs of South the Cambodia and the students statement said the Shultz visit demonstrates but it did not drug from Page 1 drug testing for the Mediterranean and the Middle the panel by David Einsel and often referred to As the Einsel commission visited Wiesbaden in november the commission criticized Wiesbaden and the other military labs for poor record keeping and inadequate train equipment and the commission found that about 75 per cent of the drug tests done at Wiesbaden Between january and april 1983 were not scientifically and legally by the end of the commission found that the rate at Wiesbaden had improved to about 5 the commission found similar problems at the military other three replying to Laplante army officials said since the Einsel commis Sion inspections of the labs show consistent reporting of forensically support Able Laplante also testified contrary to army cocaine use was on the Rise among gis in in the nato area of a study was commissioned from research done by tracking urine Posi Tives Over a two year which showed that cocaine abuse had risen 400 percent Over the previous years Lap Lante he said soldiers had begun to change their drug of Choice in Europe from Mari Juana to army statistics provided in response to Laplante claim suggested that drug abuse among service members in Europe is those figures show fewer positive lab findings for fewer service members enrolled in drug treatment and fewer drug offences in army statistics also show that less than 1 percent of the drug lab tests in the first five months of fiscal 1985 showed positive re sults for Laplante told the stars and stripes he suspects that labs Are not reporting the True Laplante told the Senate subcommittee that drug abusers in Europe were not treated Justice was meted according to ones rank and the policy of the local command Laplante he called the army drug and alcohol abuse prevention program an enlisted per sons Laplante told the subcommittee of a re Mote communications site in Europe where 70 of 250 men tested positive for cocaine and the site commander was among those whose tests were Laplante the enlisted men involved were but the commander was Only transferred to another he army officials said the services policy is to give commanders some latitude in Deal ing with firs time drug offenders in grades e4 and the army policy is to discharge e5s and above when they Are involved with drugs even for the first second time drug abusers must be army officials Banks from Page 1 developed would also include a credit card for use at air Force Exchange commissaries and Carver explained that it would be a major credit card such As visa or Mastercard earmarked for use on air Force it could also be used off the House welfare and recreation panel would have to approve the use of credit the panel oversees military commissary and Exchange while a centralized banking system would change the banking habits of its Carver said it would have very Little effect on the temperatures juiy7 Reagan from Page 1 our International he said the goal of terrorists is to Disori ent the United disrupt its foreign sow discord Between America and us frighten third world countries and curb that is the real reason these terrorist nations Are training and supporting attacks against this Reagan and that is Why we can be Clear on one Point these terrorist states Are now engaged in acts of War against the government and people of the United under International any state which is the victim of acts of War has the right to defend he said that the american people Are not i repeat not going to tolerate terror and outright acts of War against this nation and its and we especially Are not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of Looney tunes and squalid criminals since the Advent of the third Looney tunes Are film Reagan said the states he identified As sponsors of terrorism Are not and he pointedly noted that the soviet Union has a close relationship with almost All of the terrorist states i have the administration there is a widespread sentiment for firmness in dealing with As a result of the Twa yet the administration has seemed torn Over what to do about terror and How to exact retribution without harming innocent at the Start of his Reagan said the response to terrorism will be Swift and effective we hear it said that we live in an Era of limits to our Reagan said in Early let it also be there Are limits to our while Reagan has talked there have been no retaliatory strikes by the United states against terrorists for any of the attacks against americans since the president took when four american marines were killed by gunmen at a sidewalk cafe in Al Salvador on june Reagan decided to increase military Aid to the government there instead of retaliating against the in the Wake of the Twa Reagan ordered Steps to close Down the Beirut but failed to win Allied support for that according to state department there were 713 terrorist acts throughout the world last an increase of 40 percent from some 22 percent of the attacks were directed against americans and their l h 62 79 Albany 65 98 Albuquerque 54 59 Anchorage 66 65 Atlanta 70 64 Atlantic City 68 68 Baltimore 68 95 Billings 63 67 Birmingham 74 99 Boise 69 66 Boston 62 67 Buffalo 64 75 Burlington 75 60 64 65 58 88 Chicago 61 85 Cincinnati 57 76 Cleveland 69 95 Worth 65 98 Denver 68 94 Desmornes 52 78 Detroit 51 77 Fairbanks 59 98 Fargo 67 64 Hartford 74 69 Honolulu 72 87 Houston 63 87 Indianapolis 72 90 Jacksonville 64 90 Kansas City 83 109 Las vegas l h 69 90 Little Rock 68 68 los Angeles 63 86 Louisville 72 89 Memphis 60 87 Miami Beach 74 97 Paul 65 90 Nashville 71 78 new Orleans 60 85 new York City 61 87 Norfolk 66 68 Oklahoma City 70 96 Omaha 73 94 Orlando 68 85 Philadelphia 57 78 Pittsburgh 65 85 Maine 63 90 67 64 Providence 81 87 Raleigh 59 97 Reno 67 91 Louis 77 95 Petersburg 74 97 Salt Lake City 68 77 san Diego 54 78 san Francisco 55 63 Seattle 60 69 Syracuse 71 108 Tucson 62 89 Washington 61 95 Wichita Reagan reportedly wanted to blast rebels new York a Newsweek mag Azine says president Reagan ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for an air strike on salvadoran rebel bases in retaliation for the slaying of four marines in san but was dissuaded from ordering an the in its latest said that the military Drew up the plans for retaliation against forces presumed responsible for the june 19 but that Reagan was persuaded at a National Security Council meeting not to order the White House spokesman Dale Petrosky declined to comment on the Newsweek the which did not identify a source for its said military officials pointed out that an attack would result in 4he deaths of women and children living in the guerrilla diplomats said direct intervention would have embarrassed salvadoran president Jose Napoleon Duarte by suggesting that local Law enforcement was according to the european weather forecast for tuesday fair to partly Cloudy with Early morning increasing Clouds and rain in the North in late afternoon and isolated Thunder storms in North during Early High tempera Tures from upper 60s to mid lows from mid 40s to Low Sunset tuesday Sunrise wednesday Outlook for wednesday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy with scattered showers and areas of rain in the ending by temperatures slightly warm temperatures recorded monday 4am 4pm p 52 63 p 50 68 f 55 77 m 70 93 p 50 70 p 67 73 p 68 84 partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy of far by Del 7th weather tra Bentzar f f f p r 4pm 66 64 52 64 66 81 68 79 53 66 r 54 59 50 68  
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