European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes e Baker arts tries Magazine Ges Dyba Mett a Comer Acaf 3 . May escalate drug War % a Law Abreh than Washington .-backed on cocaine proc Euing site arc under consideration for pent us co bum depending on the prot Reti of an eight week anti drug Effort in Bolivia of Fetcu staid wednesday. . Support of the initiative which could begin m Early m next month Wood not be at extensive the involve ment in Bolivia where six army. Black Hawk helicopters with 160 . Pilot Tod nip port personnel have been tent according to Anonymous sources. Instead agents of the . Drug enforcement administration would assist Tocu troop and police who would reauthorized to Cross each other s Borden i cocaine growing areas in the Amazon Basin the officials said. Toe unusual Multics Poiry operation would be financed largely by the . Department of stale s International Nars a drug War on Page 24 .-Boliviadrug targets ripes vol. 45, no. 91 Friday july 18, 1986 8693 a heat parches South no end in sight As 12 die Atlanta not for a week Anda half in has been so hoi across the South thai chickens in their Sheds fish in their Ponds cattle in their Fields ancient Oaks in their Woods and people in their Home have died of heat. The drought now the worn in the re Chou water to dig a grave. It has been a Complex phenomenon 10 Days of record beat on top of four months of drought on top of a farm Cri Sis that is now almost a decade old Dat ing from the drought of 1977. In Temu of major crops it has mos Hurt Cotton peanuts soybeans com and pecans. If steady Rains do not come the consumer May notice smaller peaches and nuts in the markets and Small or Chic Ken in the grocery cooler. But with he Harvest season for most crops Mil month away rainfall in the next week or to could yet Cuc the Region from much of the misery that Bow Blanket it. In a. Gen Fantl Way Albany ga., Marks the Southern Boundary of the devastating not Edo dry zone a Norm front wednes Day Mew in four torrential Inch of rain and winds that fuhed powder dry Earth off the Field. The to torn drenched Savannah to the Cut and Warmington n.c., to the North and for the fint Day in a week no record temperatures Wen set across the South East the Rains brought Hope to some area. They la help in the snort Taid Bill Barlow of the National sever Stormi forecast Center in Kansas City to. But because die Rains were scattered he said it s not going to make that much he predicted that temperatures would return to the la Short term drought severity pm severely to a req abnormally excessively aaa excessively dry dry wet to too wet Chicago Tribune map source Noaa us a joint agricultural weather Fec fity on thursday and Friday. The immediate effect of the heat has been staggering. The death tuesday of an elderly Georgia Man whose body temperature had risen to 112 decrees brought the number of human fatalities attributed to the beat to seven in this state and a total of 12 in the Region. In Georgia alone Iff estimated that 750,000 chickens died in a week. Federal agriculture department officials said that for consumer the greatest immediate Impact of the drought could be expected in broiler chickens and tur keys. The area products 39 percent of the broilers in the United stale an about 20 percent of the Turkey. For the Farmers the Long term Burden hard to measure May lie on the spirit of the Rural South. In the last five to eighty an in Wathington county in Northeast Georgia said Chris Irvin president of the George d. Warthen Bank when continued on Page 24 Gressman says used parts Mays danger f-15, f-16 jets Washington up1 Hoff in and f-l6jets flown worldwide i the air Force and 11 . Allies May have defective engine fan Blades that could fail rip through the engine and destroy the planes according to Dingell a Mich Dingell cited air Force teats that found defects in up to 30 percent of the Blades that had been repaired after they were scavenged from a scrapyard a Kelly fab in san Antonio Texas. In a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Dingell said the air Force i planning a worldwide recall of the re paired Blades for the Foo engine in both aircraft. The House Energy and Carit Merce subcommittee on investigations and oversight which Digneur Freida has Evi Dence that have caused the failure of Sorte f-100 engine Ana Detol the awl also Taid Dingell is per plebe Kia to Why parts Are pulled out of the air Force base s junkyard and put our front line fighter letter released tuesday Dingel wrote pc Tail the general accounting office Humme of the Blades tested main Teisuke lain be it Kelly and throughout the of Fly Ike re routinely stalling these defective engines. The air Force admin there could be a Catassi Pic failure of Blades War the dripping the engine Stening the life of the Pilot and undoubtedly resulting in the destruction of the $30 million Kelly spokesman dingell14. Col. Edwin Cooke said every Indi cation has been there is no safety Issue associated with the repair of the Blades. The air Force has never experienced the failure of a repaired Blade he Laid. There Are 1,572manufactured by. Corp., in Sec Kij Oti Swide. The air Force haj0ttxxwith the balance used film Denmark the Netherlands Lorway Israel Egypt Pakistan South Korea and Venezuela. There Are 941 twin engine f-15s, manufactured by Mcdonnell Douglas in use 88 by Japan saudia Arabia and Israel id the balance by he air Force. F-100 engines Are produced by Whitney a division of United corp. To a separate contractor chyorriarlimctjrp., As one source of the problem. The first series Ohff Force tests on repairs made by Chrorn lab which has handled about 30,000 revealed that 12 of 140 repair showed defects Dingell said. A teries completed july 7, revealed Demic in 279 Blade from a Sample of 893, failure rate of 30 percent
