European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 25, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 drug raids net 1,474 pounds of cocaine new York not Federal agents and local police officers in new Jersey. New York Florida and puerto Rico arrested 27 people and seized 1.474 pounds of co Caine in c x Dina cd raids Friday night and Early sat urday. More than 100 Law enforcement officials raided Homes and restaurants that they said were being used by a sophisticated cocaine trafficking operation. Cocaine was smuggled from Colombia where it was refined to a Way station in puerto Rico where it was repackaged for distribution and then flown to dealers in Florida and inc new York area. Law enforcement officials seized the cocaine which has a Street value estimated Between j600 million and $700 million at a House in Westbury . They called inc seizure at the Long Island House one of the five largest Ever in the Northeast. They said the drug operation was based in West Palm Beach fla., and run by a colombian family named Van Gas. It s going to put a Damper on somebody s Christmas said Andrew Fenrich a spokesman for the new York office of inc drug enforcement administration. The nation s largest seizure occurred in Miami in 1982 when customs agents seized 3,748 pounds of cocaine at Miami International Airport. According to congressional staff experts cocaine consumption in the United states will exceed 100 tons this year. Officials said the raids began with the arrest on a new York City Street Friday afternoon of the alleged ringleader. Leon Jairo Van Gas. 38, of West Palm Beach. They called the raids noteworthy because two local Law enforcement agencies the West Palm Beach police department and inc Hudson county prosecutor s office in new Jersey worked closely together to break up a drug ring with International operations. Officials said the group fell so secure that its operation had not been detected that it did nut guard the cocaine which was stored in a Wisl Btry House. The investigation that led to the raids started in 1982. When an informant told West Palm Beach police that a family named Van Gas was running cocaine Between Colombia and Southeast Florida according to West Palm Beach police chief George sic grist. The Federal drug Agency told sic grist the Van Gas family also had operations in new Jersey s Hudson and Bergen counties.  this year inc local police departments started working in concert tapping telephones and watch ing Homes sic grist said. The agents started the raids after the Load of 1.474 pounds of cocaine arrived Al a new York Airport they would not say which one by plane from puerto Rico in two wooden crates marked As automobile parts. The suspects moved the drugs in a rented truck to the Westbury House and members of Jhc ring from West Palm Beach flew to new York to oversee the distribution. Local and Federal authorities arrested three suspects in West Palm Beach three in puerto Rico including the Pilot who flew the plane from Colombia one in Miami and the rest in Queens and Newark and Hudson and Bergen counties sic grist said the suspects did not resist no guns were found  to cocaine or Large amounts of Cash were found on the suspects. These people arc a professional group of  he said. They arc not out cutting people up and killing them off to our knowledge. They own Nice Homes and they have Nice things and they have a lot of  Reward offered after vandals again if jewish shops new York a vandals threw rocks through windows of eight jewish owned shops saturday and mayor Edward Koch said the City will offer a si0,000 re Ward for information on the vandalism which hit the same area two weeks ago. The jewish Community relations coun cil which represents 45 major jewish or Gani actions also offered a $5,000 Reward saturday night bringing the total to j15,000. Although there was no evidence of anti Sci list in either Case the police Bias unit was handling he investigation. The windows were broken sometime be tween 2 40 . And 6 . On 13th and 16lh avenues in pc dominantly orthodox jewish areas of the Borough Park and Flat Bush in Brooklyn said police and coun Cilman Noach dear. Dear represents the area. Because of the Sabbath detectives were hampered in their investigation said police sgt. Ancillo Bianco. Lie said rocks were thrown through the windows of two decorator shops one dry cleaners one restaurant and one Pho Logra Phy studio. The militant jewish defense Organiza Tion meanwhile opened a training Center in Borough Park to teach karate use of weapons and How to patrol the area to make sure that this Type of incident docs not occur again said mod Chat Levy the group s head. Teachers drop entry device on Cia s gobbledygook Hail storm Catholic nuns protest the opening of the film Hail mry at a Cambridge maw., theater. The film by French director Jean Luc Godard depicts the Vir Gin Mary As the daughter of a modern Day gasoline station owner and Joseph As a poor frustrated cab Driver. The Angel Gabriel is a Gruff unshaven Char Acter who travels by Jet. There Are some nude scenes but no sex in the film. Keeping with Orwell s intention of exposing linguistic gobbledygook. The Pentagon won second prize for statements made by Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger before the Senate for eign relations committee in january. The soviets demonstrated their defense against cruise missiles a couple of Days ago when they shot Down one of their errant mis Siles that was on its Way into Finland he said. Dewcy Claridge former head of Cia Clandestine operations in latin America won the third place award for saying that Cia backed contras who killed civilians and sandinista officials in the provinces As Well As Heads of cooperatives nurses Doc tors and  did not violate president Reagan s order forbidding assassinations. These events do not constitute assassinations because As far As we Are concerned assassinations arc Only those of Heads of  Claridge said. I leave definitions to the  Philadelphia a the nation Al Council of teachers of English meeting Here this week has Given its 1985 doubles Peak award to the Cia for its training manual explaining How to neutralize nicaraguan officials. William d. Lulu chairman of the Council s committee on Public Doublespeak said Fri Day that the manual was voted this year s most conspicuous example of language that is grossly deceptive evasive euphemistic con fusing or  the Cia manual was prepared for rebels a gating the nicaraguan government. Philadelphia City officials were singled out for special mention for insisting that an entry device and not a bomb was dropped by police on the Headquarters of the Radical group move May 13. Doublespeak is the euphemistic language used by characters in the George Orwell novel "1984." Lutz head of the English department at Rutgers University said the prize is in Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 25, 1945 the stars and stripes was not published on this Dale. 30 years ago today nov. 25, 1955 the soviet Union s mightiest nuclear blast probably involving a Hydrogen bomb sharpened the atomic arms race Lewis Strauss said the chairman of the atomic Energy commission announced the latest explosion in the soviets test series. 20 years ago today nov. 25, 1965 communist troops in Vietnam killed 240 american servicemen and wounded 470 others military officials said. Most of the casualties were suffered by the 1st air Cav div during the acc Long Battle on the slopes of Chu Pong Mountain. The casual ties brought . Losses since 1961 to 1,335 dead and 6,131 wounded. 10 years ago today. Nov. 25, 1975 Basque separatist guerrillas assassinated a town mayor in san Sebastian police said in the Start of what appeared to be a new Campaign against the Spanish government