European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday february 14, 1986 into the wild Blue yonder a Bald Eagle soars Flor it was released by Adele Evans Center at a state Park near Grafton Iii. More than 200 spectators applauded its flight Owr the Illinois River until it was out of sight. The Bird was nursed Back to health at the treehouse wildlife Cen Ter after surgery to remove Bones lodged in its Throat. Stateside cocaine smuggling ring May involve Eastern airlines baggage handlers Washington a Eastern airlines jets we reused As delivery vehicles by a colombian cocaine smug gling ring and up to 50 Eastern baggage handlers i Miami face indictment for their part in the operation Federal Law enforcement sources disclosed wednesday. The sources who spoke Only on condition that they note identified said the baggage handlers Are pan of a drug pipeline that has been operating for some Lime from the South american country primarily from Bogota the colombian capita. The leaders of the drug smuggling operation Are in Colombia and the Eastern employees almost exclusively baggage handlers have been working with them the sources said. Management of Eastern airlines has been cooperating fully with agents of the drug enforcement administration in the investigation which began late last summer. Feder Al investigators believe no Eastern airlines officials Are involved in the smuggling or had knowledge of it. We will cooperate every Way with the authorities tomake certain that none of our air planes or our employees Are involved in that Trade Eastern chairman Frank Bor Man told Abc news. Contacted wednesday night by the associated press Eastern spokesman Mark Wegt said he had seen reports about the drug allegations but the airline had no com ment. We think there s a Small cadre of handlers who Are holding out baggage at Miami to evade drug nets set up by . Customs service officials said one Federal handlers Are using any number of tricks to Circum vent customs efforts to confiscate drug loaded baggage the source said. Sources said agents have been working undercover at the Miami Airport since last summer. Frequently handlers will hold baggage off of Airport conveyor belts or keep it on an incoming plane until drug sniffing dogs have left the area. The baggage handlers also have become expert at evading customs agents1 spot checks of Luggage coming off planes from Colombia the sources said. After getting by the customs checks the cocaine in the Luggage is loaded aboard Domestic flights and flown to new York City and other East coast Points. According to Dea figures one in five illegal cocaine shipments into the United states last year came aboard commercial airliners. The Law enforcement sources said the Eastern Case suggests that the airline Industry must examine a number of its internal Security procedures. William Jackman of the air transport association a Industry group said in an interview wednesday night that the Case Means that the airlines will certainly take closer look 1 at improving and tightening internal Security procedures. He added that last year the major airlines signed a agreement to work with the Federal government to try to Stop the Low of drugs from South America. The agreement followed the seizure in april 1984 of a Eastern jumbo Jet in Miami after cocaine was found aboard. Us. Customs commissioner William von Raa said later that authorities acted in frustration after repeated discoveries of cocaine on Eastern aircraft Eastern then agreed to begin searching and guarding their planes in narcotic source countries to tighten cargo control and Security systems both Here and abroad he said. Educational testing service follows order pulls out of Libya Princeton . A the educational testing service which administers English tests and College in trance exams in 140 countries has pulled out of Libya company officials said. Vice president Robert Altman said the company was complying with president Reagan s executive order asking americans to Cut All ties with Libya. He said the Only other Lime the ets withdrew from a country was when the Ayatollah Khomeini came to Power in ets tested about 190 people in Libya last year Altman said. Some of those tested were libyans trying Roget into american schools and other candidates were of. Citizens applying for College he wishing to be tested May go to neighbouring Egypt or Algeria he said. Ban upheld on to coverage of night stalker hearing los Angeles a a judge has refused to allow television coverage of a feb. 24 preliminary hearing for night stalker defendant Richard Ramirez citing con Cerns about courtroom dignity. Municipal court judge James f. Nelson upheld a pre Vious decision by municipal court judge Candace Cooper i am convinced that judge Cooper s appraisal is Cor rect in order to protect the dignity of the court and the order of the court Nelson cameras will be allowed in the court room during recesses. Nelson , who refused to allow Pool cameras during ear Lier Ramirez hearings had said the Case received such extensive pretrial publicity that the defendant s right to a fair trial by an impartial jury might be imperilled. Milwaukee area children record Milwaukee wis. A a 10-year-old girl who Senta song she composed last year to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev has recorded remarks for broadcast on radio Moscow along with nine other Milwaukee area youngsters. Sherry Lynn Biedrzycki of suburban St. Francis another 9 and 10-year-Olds gathered at radio station Wisn to record their Moscow recently played her song we can walk in peace and asked her to record some remarks Tobe aired in the future. All the youngsters expressed interest in soviet schools fear of War and a desire to work for peace through correspondence with pen describing America the youngsters listed things to do such As paying a visit to the statue of Liberty inner York taking a trip to an amusement Park in Gurnet 111., and having a meal at a fast food restaurant. Sherry s parents Thomas and Judith Biedrzycki said they will include an invitation on the tape for a soviet child to visit them at their Home. New report takes sugar off Hook for tooth decay obesity acne new York up sugar May not be a guilty of promoting tooth decay obesity and acne As previously thought according to a new report. A report in Glamour Magazine states that carbohydrate Are just As responsible for cavities in Teeth As sugar and that such Sticky foods As figs and raisins Are probably worse i obesity is caused by eating fat. Not sugar according tothe report which cites a study by the uni Venity of Mfchf-4 can that shows obese people prefer diets with 34.4 percent fat and 4 percent sugar while people of Normal weight choose diets with 20.7 percent fat and 7.7 percent near sugar has also been wrongly blamed for causing tew3 for years according to the article. Iso what Are sugar drawbacks nutritionists to the f Bof con Alm empty calories that do not inert Kab invented Shch Aransky spy charges paper save los Angeles a during his Brief defection prison for spying for the United states. After nine Of in of. It. Al Kab spy Vitaly s. Yurchenko told us. Officials that the soviet secret police manufactured the spying allegation against dissident Anatoly Shch Aransky the los Angeles times reported wednesday. Yurchenko defected at the is. Embassy in Rome last aug. I and was in the custody of the Cia until nov. 2, when he walked away from a Cia Security officer. He went to the soviet embassy in Washington d.c., where he told reporters he had been kidnapped and forcibly detained in the United states. Shch Aransky 38, was sentenced in 1978 to 13 years in prison unite slates. Years of confinement he was released in an East West prisoner Swap in Berlin on tuesday. The times said that during his defection Yurchen Odid not offer evidence supporting his Contention that the Shch Aransky Case had been a Kab invention. But yur Chenko s information on some other matters proved Cor rect according to unidentified officials cited by the times. Kab evidence against Shch Aransky. Us. Officials according to the newspaper said Gorba Chev May have been sincerely convinced by the Kab at Shch Aransky s guilt the paper said it knew of Yurchenko s revelation for More than two months but agreed to withhold the Story when a official said its publication could Embarrass the soviet an jeopardize chances of Shch Aransky s release. F Shch Aransky was a founder of the Helsinki monitoring Seffl Mcrilll Al a compared soviet human right Jjck to my of soviet promises under Mieu 0 isl nil Abreen is on Security and cooperation to
