European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes sunday january 12,1986 a member of Bolivia s Leopard drug police destroys part of a cocaine paste facility in Bolyn bolivian drug agents under siege by 17,000 angry cocaine producers la Paz. Bolivia a the government said Friday it May Send troops to Rescue 245 policemen whose Camp in the heart of the cocaine country has been surrounded by thousands of coca Farmers lingered by government plans to Cut their production. The policemen said in a radio communication that they have enough fresh food for another Day and supplemental rations to last a week. President Victor Paz Estensoro sent units of the Leop Ards anti narcotics police financed and assisted by the United states into the area in december with orders to disrupt trafficking orid destroy plants that turn coca leaves into paste. The paste is refined into cocaine much of which goes to the United states. About 17,000 Farmers gathered last week around a Camp of 245 leopards at Ivar Mazama a town in the Lush tropical Capare Region that was the Center of paste proc Essing until the anti narcotics police arrived. On a visit to Ivar Mazama it was possible to see the remains of a drug paste facility destroyed by the leopards soon after they arrived. Regional police said the siege developed after two implicated leopards raped a local woman but col. Guido Lopez the nation s top drug enforcement official said it was organized by traffickers who want to Stop he govern ment program. Interior minister Fernanda Barthelemy said in an inter View there is is great Deal of tension in the Capare and Ivar Mazama and things could deteriorate if the siege continues and food is unable to reach the leopards he said the alleged rape was a setup by drug Traffick ers using a woman of easy virtue who had relations with Many Lopez expressed reservations about sending soldiers. We could go in there and lift the siege in five minutes but then the drug traffickers would use the shooting and possible injuries As a pretext for attacking our presence in the Capare he said. Barthelemy said growing fewer of the coca leaves from which he drug is produced could damage the already shattered bolivian Economy which has become dependent on the illegal cocaine Trade. The nation in the Andes mountains has been plunged into economic ruin by astronomical inflation and Low world prices for tin its main Export. Cocaine brings in at least s450 million a year about the same amount As Legal exports Barthelemy said. The United states says it will Cut Aid to Bolivia by half unless the crop reduction plan is carried out. Tho disruption of the cocaine Trade is having n negative effect on our Economy Barthelemy said. Even so we have the moral obligation to continue but people out Side must realize the sacrifices farm association leaders in the Capare supported the coca crop reduction program when Paz Eslen Usoro s conservative government began it in december but it was opposed by individual Farmers and residents of Iva Gaza a the paste processing Center. N. Korea to suspend military exercises Tokyo up North Korea in an apparent peace overture announced saturday that it would suspend Mili tary exercises not month and called on the United slates and South Korea to put off their annual War games. In a statement carried by the official korean Central news Agency and monitored in Tokyo the North korean foreign ministry said efforts to Case tensions on the korean Peninsula through talks Between North Korea and South Korea could not move ahead while either Side con ducted military exercises. Because such Maneu vers constitute a threat to he other party the statement said the North korean government has decided to refrain from Large scale military exercises As of feb. I and to Slop All military exercises while talks Are under Way. It also called on the . And South korean govern ments not to hold the military exercise in South Korea in february a reference to the team spirit War games that begin each february and last about two months. North Korea does not announce and does not report on its military exercises and it was not Clear what was being suspended. Bui the move was a transparent attempt to pre empt the team spirit exercises of which North Korea has been highly critical. Among the largest of . Military Maneu vers. Team spirit involves around 200,000 american and South korean troops in War Gam i designed to rehearse for any potential invasion by North Korea. In Seoul. South Korea is. And South korean officials had no immediate comment on the proposal. Western officials to review plan to depress value of Dollar 1 on Don a finance ministers from the weal s five leading industrialized countries will Mecl in London Jan 18-19 to review their agreement aimed at weakening inc . Dollar a British official said. The spokesman for tre British Treasury who spoke on condition he not be identified suit the session would re View Progress made since the sept. 22 Accord. It would be the first meeting of the finance and Treasury officials from the United states Japan. Britain Germany and France since they look coordinated action to depot ii the value of the . Dollar. A High . Dollar Means a relative decrease in the value of the other countries currencies. They had to hike interest rates to protect their currencies which pushed up the Cost of borrowing Money and was considered bad for business Poland arrests senior Leader of Solidarity news Agency says Warsaw Poland up polish authorities arrested Bogdan Borusewicz a senior figure in the under ground Solidarity movement in the Baltic porn of Gdansk saturday the polish news Agency Pap reported. Borusewicz was a Leader of the interim coordinating committee of the free Trade Union movement which Wai forced underground after it was outlawed by martial Law. The Pap report said Boru Scwll for several years carried out activities aimed against the most vital interest of inc state. During inc 1970s lie was an Active Leader in inc workers defense committee and initiated and organized anti state actions Pap said. Accident on autobahn drives motorists out of their noodles Rosenheim Germany up Twenty four tons of noodles clogged an expressway Early saturday and halted traffic for seven hours. Police said a truck skidded and overturned on the Auto Bahn near Rosenheim about 30 Miles Southeast of Munich and spilled its entire Load of noodles in the Road. A fire department emergency squad worked seven hours to remove the noodles while traffic was rerouted. The truck Driver escaped with minor injuries Swiss mediator Botha discuss South Africa s foreign debt Johannesburg South Africa up former Swiss banker Fritz Leutwiler held constructive talks with president Picter Botha saturday As the mediator sought concessions that could appease foreign creditors affect cd by South Africa s freeze in jell repayment. Finance minister Barend Duplessis who participated said after the meeting that the hour Lang discussion had been conducted in a relaxed and constructive Atmo South Africa s stale run radio quoted Duplessis As say ing Botha had detailed current political developments in the in response Leutwiler briefed him on the present status on the negotiations regarding South Africa � outstanding foreign debt the radio said. No further details of the discussions were released but Bankers had expected the former executive of Switzer land s Central Bank to press Botha for Clear signals of change in the country s racial Laws that could reduce Vio Lence and tension in South Africa. Minister begins Mideast tour to renew British peace Effort London Cap Forden Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe kit saturday on a four Day visit to Kuwait Oman and saudi Arabia saying that the palestinian problem must be solved to prevent further Middle East violence breaking out. I think its very important thai the peace process on the Arab israeli conflict should be kept in being and sustained he told reporters. If it s not then the frustration which is at the heart of the palestinian Case will see be und grow and the tempi lion to resort to violence will be All the he said during his Visil Howe plans to discuss Arab British relations the Iran Iraq War and the latest wave of Arab terrorism in Europe. His tour Marks Britain s first High level foray into mid dle East diplomacy since the collapse last october of an attempt by prime minister Margaret Thatcher to draw moderate Palestine liberation organization members into the peace process
