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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday june 15,1986 . Gives drug warning to latin american officers stateside Washington a senior state Mem official on Friday warned a group of Lai in Amer ican military officers against involvement in narcotics trafficking in the illegal Diu business was rapidly becoming a Reg urmide menacx1." the remark in a speech by Elliott Arf rams. Assist ant suit Mary of male Tor inter american affairs came a Day after the new York times reported thai Evi Dence gathered by american intelligence officials showed thai the 1  armed forces chief. Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega had been a Len Sicly involved in illicit Money laundering and narcotics activities. Speaking 10 a graduating class of officers at he inter american defense College Abrams made no mention of Panama or of Noriega. Jul he denounced drug trafficking and those who engage in it. Telling the office is. Their growing Power and the corruption it Breeds endangers not Only civilian institution hut  you and your fellow military officer1 must guard your institution against this cancer Abrams said. You must be relentless in fighting the traffickers. Your institutions your Honor and the Freedom of your societies a re a i  Abrams also emphasised what he termed an extraordinary period in which democracy is on the Rise in our  gone Are the Days when the coup d eat was an option that could be exercised without local or International costs by military leaders abrogating 10 them selves the right to decide for their nation he said. Your highest calling must be nol to replace failed regimes but to protect successful democracies he warned that the enlargement of military forces id protect democratic institutions can threaten those very institutions when the or Hilary dwarfs civilian institutions and assumes some of their functions Noriega widely considered to be the most powerful figure in Panama was to have attended the ceremony at which Abrams spoke according to a Diplomat familiar with the general s schedule but pc left the United states Early thursday after the publication of the times article. Despite ashrams warning there was no indication from american officials that the Reagan administration planned any action against Panama which has key military value to the United states. In the past the . Government and reports in the american press have linked officials in several latin nations with drug trafficking. The Reagan administration has accused the government of Nicaragua of drug trafficking and recent charges by tonic admin oration officials that mexican officials were involved in the drug Trade created tension Between the to o countries. Colombia also has been a target of such accusations. In articles on thursday and Friday the times re ported american officials had Learned that Noriega had also conveyed intelligence information 10 Cuba and Law enforcement officials in the Niton administration had proposed that the general be assassinated. The state department spokesman. Bernard Kalb had no comment Friday on Calls in Congress for an investigation. Rep. Gerry e. Studds. D-mass., said thursday the subcommittee on Western hemisphere affairs of the House foreign affairs committee would look into the charges. Mother Teresa meets Reagan asks support for aids centers Mather Teresa receives award from a paler Mcpher son director of Agency for  development. Washington a Nobel prize Winner Mother Teresa trying to establish centers in the United states for aids victim has tried 10 enlist president Reagan to help her. And she says she Hopes his help is on the Way. The roman Catholic nun met for 10 minutes with Reagan Friday and said the discussion went Well. He gave me great  she said after the Oval office meeting. She was accompanied by sister Freder ick regional Superior of her order the m missionary Sis ters of Charity. Mother Teresa the roman Catholic nun who won the Nobel peace Pri for her work with the poor of Calcutta. India said Friday that Reagan encouraged her. The 75-year-old yugoslav born nun said she told Reagan. We Are looking for a Nice place where the people can come and receive love and also remove their  the missionary Sisters of Charity is already taking in victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome at a new York Home. Mother Teresa also said in a speech to the International health Council that for aids victims the much greater pain is the pain of the heart being unwanted and unloved thrown away by  criticizing those who shun aids victims she asked How can you say you love god if you Don t love your neighbor you Are a  aids a fatal disease transmitted through sexual Contact and blood products renders the body vulnerable to a Host of other diseases. It primarily strikes homosexual men i ,.ophiliacs and drug users who Swap Needles. Adoptee gets Mother s kidney Boston a a 20-year-old woman Given up Tor adoption at birth has received a lifesaving kidney transplant from her natural Mother who was tracked Down by the woman s adoptive parents. Alicia Sferrino met her Mother. Ruth Foisy 37, last week for the first Lime. The transplant operation was performed thursday. Said Martin Bander a spokes Man Al Massachusetts general Hospital. Both women were reported in Good condition. A Fanino s adoptive parents warned to donate a kid Ney but tests ruled them out. Bander said. Efforts were then made to locale her natural Mother. Darlene Macdonald. Foisy s Cousin told the Boston Herald that Sferrino s adoptive parents wrote Foisy in Florida asking if she would consider the transplant. Right away she decided she would do  said Macdonald. Ruth was very nervous about seeing her daughter. After All ii had been 20 years. But they hit in off immediately. Alicia is not shy Al Alt. She s a very bubbly Happy person. She hit Ruth on the Arm and said. I Jiow be you been " Bander said Sferrino first came 10 Massachusetts general in january suffering from fatigue. Tests showed she had severe kidney failure. $4.5 million verdict moot for paralysed stun woman los Angeles a a jury Friday or dered the director of the film Cannonball run to pay $4.5 million to a stun woman paralysed in a crash on the movie s set while she was standing in for actress Farrah fac Cal. But. Because director Hal Necdham i insurance company has already paid Stum woman Heidi von Beltz More than s6 million she Wilt get nothing More As result of the verdict. The Superior court jury in a 9-3 decision found Needham personally responsible for the 1980 Accident on a desert Highway in Nevada. The Aston Martin sports car. Driven by Jimmy Nickerson standing in for Burl Reynolds was weaving through a Stream of oncoming traffic when ii slammed into a Van leaving von Clu a quadriplegic. Vapours from insecticide cause illnesses in Texas Kerens Texas api Vapours from a liquid insecticide escaped from a silo near this East Texas Community Friday making sin people ill and forcing 20 to 30 others la go to a Hospital fur decontamination authorities said. Assistant police chief Ronnie Kuykndall said 26 Gallons of the insecticide Chloropicrin. Were being poured into 10 million pounds of Grain in the Kent Brothers silo. When in went Down in came Back up through the top of the 50-foot tall silo said Kuykndall Chloropicrin causes symptoms like those caused by tear Gas and can be fatal if swallowed inhaled or absorbed through the skin said officials attacks by blackbirds cause stir in san Francisco san Francisco a in scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock s suspense thriller the Birds a half dozen Sharp beaked Black Birds have been strafing passers by in civic Cen Ter Plaza with Surprise pecks on the head. The first Lime. I though in was the wind or my imagination said Audrey Montana a 28 year old lawyer who often walks through the Plaza. They be really Rouen Gutsy the isolated attacks have been going on for about two weeks and have drawn so Many complaints that supervisor Willie Kennedy asked the City to come up with a solution. Blackbirds arc known for fiercely defending their turf against perceived trespasser. 1 Hurt As runaway bus crushes car in Nashville Nashville Tenn. A a runaway tour bus rolled Down a Street filled with country music fans Friday and pushed a car into a Souve Nir shop police said. The Driver of the car which was wailing Al a Stop sign when the bus slowed into it received minor injuries said metro police officer Brad Putnam. John Andrew Valasek 24, of Kearney neb., had parked the bus about a Block away while he and his riders were inside the country music halt of Fame. He left the emergency Brake on and the but in Neutral but he left the engine running Putnam said. The car was crushed Between the bus and the souvenir shop s Brick Wall. The shop appeared undamaged. Ford Volkswagen May cooperate in s. America Dearborn. Mich. Up Ford motor co. Said Friday it is discussing potential cooperation with Volkswagen to better utilize exist ing resources and facilities at their subsidiaries in Brazil and Argentina. Ford spokesman Peter Olsen said thai Talts Are still in the embryonic stage and that the automaker does not know when discussions would conclude or if a joint operating venture would result with the German Auto firm. Both Ford and vow acknowledged thai South american profits if any have been marginal. In some areas Bolh automakers have been losing Money in their South american Export operations  
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