European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24o the stars and stripes Friday november 15, 1985 French connection ring broken again Paris a police raided a sophisticated heroin Laband arrested several people in coordinated moves against a revival of the French connection drug ring officials of France Switzerland and the United states announced  said the heroin seized had a Street value of $45 million and the Trail of arrests probably would extend to five countries including the United Stales the main mar Ket for the lab s  Long investigation culminated monday in a raid by Swiss police on a chalet at Chatel Saint Denis near Fri Bourg in Western Switzerland said Jacques Franquet the chief of the French drug  frenchmen arrested there both former French connection figures Are among the world s leading heroin chemists according to a spokesman for the . Drug enforcement  arrests Follower in Switzerland and France and further action is expected in the United states Spain an the Netherlands Franquet told reporters. The arrests of the chemists who transform morphine base into heroin is the first solid evidence after eight to 10 years theorizing of the resurgence of the old French connection " smashed in the mid-1970s, said the Aba official who spoke on the condition of  said the Laboratory was the most sophisticated uncovered to Date anywhere in capacity and  it would have produced a minimum of 20 to 30 Kilos 44 to 66 pounds of 98 to 99 percent pure heroin n month he  he and Franquet said nearly All the output was destined for the United  Swiss investigating magistrate Andre filler of Fri Bourg said the Street value of the 23.7 pounds of heroin seized in the lab would be about s4s million. The american spokesman said the Dea has documentary evidence that the gang has been supplying the . Heroin Market on a regular  the 1970s, the French connection produced heroin in Southern France for the . Market. A heroin lab Hadnot been discovered in France for seven years. Those arrested included very important figures in the heroin and cocaine trades and in Money laundering whom we have been investigating a Long time and who Are Well known to the International anti narcotics Community the american  Wiesgrill 35, who has a reputation for producing the highest Quality heroin and Francois Scapula 40,were the two French connection chemists arrested according to the Dea  operations that occurred simultaneously with the lab raid Swiss police arrested four other men one in Fri hours two in an automobile near Lake Geneva and one at Zurich s Kloten Airport. The Dea official said they included Charles Altieri 27,and Jean Guy both French and two Swiss citizens one named Marcel Zosso. They were being questioned pending charges he said. French police arrested about 15 people of whom about10 Are expected to be charged the Dea spokesman said. Franquet the chief of the French narcotics Agency said the arrests ranged from Northern France where three members of one family were picked up to Marseille which was the hear of the old French connection territory. The american said they were in wholesale distribution As Money carriers arranging shipments or making  said French detectives became convinced Sev eral Yean ago that Wiesgrill and Scapula had resume operations in Lebanon after the Southern France operation was broken but they could not investigate because of the civil War there. They were spotted by Spanish police about a year ago inthe Barcelona Region. The chemists apparently decided to move to Europe because of the greater political stability and Access to International flights the american  police watching drug smugglers saw lab material and chemicals bring stocked near mimes in Southern France late in october. Then they Learned that a lab was to be set up in the Swiss Mountain chalet rented two months ago. Storm from Page 1 inches was expected in the mountains of Colorado. Steady Snow fell in Colorado s mountains but Denver got Only a dusting. Ice brought by freezing drizzle during the night broke Power lines from Cheyenne wyo., to Sidney neb. Don Brunner Gener Al manager of the Rural electric co. In Pine Bluffs. Wyo., said about 2,000 of his customers were without Power for 6 to 8 hours during the night. Utah Power Light co. Crews restore electricity wednesday to Ivi Square Miles of the Cottonwood Section of Salt Lake county where nearly a foot of wet heavy Snow downed lines said dispatcher Jerry Thomas. Several thousand other customers i t electricity tuesday when Snow weighted branches broke Power lines and cars Slid into Utility poles he said. In Washington state where up to 500 Elk Hunters had been stranded by around 4 feet of Snow in the cascades and two Hunter died. Army helicopters were withdrawn from the search wednesday for 100 Hunter still believed snowbound but two National guard helicopters rejoined the search Lateran the Day. Guard it. Col. Timothy Flyum said the helicopters were sent Back out after the Agency was convinced that people were Stillin danger. They say the helicopters will Only reused to pick up confirmed stranded people said Yakima county sheriffs sgt. Ken Irwin. I Don t know Bow they la be spotted and confirmed except by air. And another storm front is coming  one of those who took advantage of helicopter ride out was Al Hilbert of Seattle. I was doing Fine in a big motor Home that slept six with plenty of heat a three week Supply of food and six quarts of scotch but i got to wondering Bow i would Ever get this motor Home Down and what Good i was doing Here he  Northern California s Mountain coun ties where the Snow followed weeks of unseasonably warm weather deputies and ski patrols had rescued scores of people fro the Sierra Nevada and in Al Dorado county sheriffs sgt. Steve Ayers estimated that85 to 90 people had been rescued in his county alone including nine campers res cued by helicopter wednesday. But Placer county authorities said two More campers were being sought. Two Hunters and two hikers missing in the Sierra Foothills in Northwestern Nevada also were found  Southern California four missing hikers were found wednesday in san Jacin to state Park 100 Miles East of los an Geles the Riverside county sheriffs department said but a fifth was still missing. The body of a Man was found tuesday i California s Blue Canyon in the wreckage of a plane missing since saturday wit three aboard said sgt. Keven Besana of the Placer county sheriffs department. Rescuers using dogs skis and aircraft con verged on the site wednesday. In Central Arizona the Coconino county sheriffs office searched for three campers who might have been stranded Northeast of Payson. The three had not been heard from since they left for a camping trip sunday said it Jack Judd. Cold air covered Southern California with a Low of just 38 at coastal Santa bar ban and 42 in los Angeles and the read ing at Lancaster in the Mojave desert near Edwards fab fell to 27. Ely nev., had record Low wednesday of 7 degrees below  Orange county calif., about 320 Low risk inmates housed in tents to relieve jail overcrowding shivered through two nights of temperatures in the 40s. Sheriff Bradgate said Heaters ordered last summer had not yet  Friday authorities have blamed the weather for nine traffic deaths in wis Consin five deaths in California two each in Iowa and Washington and one each i South Dakota Colorado and Montana. Senate from Page 1 checks if the debt ceiling legislation has no been enacted. Speakes said Miller s action was authorized by president Reagan. There was no Assurance from the Republican led Senate that it would fully concur with House actions that would put off the deadlines for Tough decisions on Federal spending until the second week of Decem Ber. But House speaker Thomas p. O neilljr., d-mass., predicted wednesday that Congress would pass Bills to carry the government Well past Reagan s Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev on nov.19-20. The lawmakers will make sure Reagan does t have to have or. Gorbachev pick up the Tab. There la be finances there Oneill said. The House ways and Means committee on tuesday night approved a Small increase in the government s credit line. The Mea sure would avoid an unprecedented default by the Treasury which already has reach edits borrowing limit of si.824 trillion and needs More Cash by  Short term debt Bill would raise the debt ceiling until dec. 13.speakes said the administration opposes the ways and Means committee action because we believe Congress is Only taking the easy Way out not facing up to reality and postponing the decision. Congress has had sufficient time to approve this legislation. And we think they should act on it and act on it within the next 24 hours Speakes said. Speakes declined to say whether Reagan would veto the ways and Means Bill if it were approved by Congress and sent to his desk but o Neill said the president has Little  president in t in any position to refuse this Oneill  overriding Factor for me personally is that because of our inability to finish this thing said House Republican whip Trent Lou of Mississippi we could have a chaotic situation. At a time when the president of the United states a going to a Summit  the result he said could be a weakening of his  the House and Senate have approve competing versions of the balanced budget plan that s been blocking the Long Ter debt ceiling increase. The original sponsors of the balanced budget plan Sens. Phil Gramon a Texas and Warren Rudman r-n.h., wednesday announced they also supported a Short term Extension of the debt. Both of the House and Senate balanced budget plans would set targets to gradually reduce annual deficits to Zero and impose automatic spending cuts if lawmakers Mitt the targets. But the House has sought to protect poverty programs from the Brunt of the cutbacks. Sharon from Page 1 Cabinet session Peres accused Sharon of violating t Law that requires ministers to accept collective responsibility for govern ment policy the aide told reporters. Peres said in a speech tuesday that Sha Ron s personal attacks had exceeded any possible Standard of conduct. Sharon 57, was defense minister in Theli Kud government that preceded the coalition and was the architect of Israel s 1982invasion of Lebanon. He was forced to re sign when a government commission found him negligent for failing to prevent massacres of palestinians by lebanese Mili Tiamen it two refugee Camps. He has charged that pens bypassed the Cabinet and secretly negotiated an agreement with Jordan s King Hussein toehold an International peace conference. Peres denies making any secret Deal wit the jordanians but Bis acknowledged con ducting quiet diplomacy aimed at Start ing peace talks with a joint team of jordanians and palestinians. Peres has agreed to attend an International conference which would involve the soviet Union. Sharon and other liked Lead in say such a conference would give anti Israel forces an  also has criticized the timing of overtures to Jordan and argued that in Stead Brad should attack Flo by � in Amman the jordanian  s Basic Law similar to a Constitution gives the prime minister the right to fire a Cabinet minister. The coalition agreement Between labor and the like Days dismissal of a liked minister must be approved by the liked Leader. L h Toronto do 54 , d sep Ltd by in aug Calm a or Tiv Cloudy a Mottis Cloudy. Or let to now of fog