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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Hud Boss defends Reagan record Page 5 d retirement overseas daily Magazine d gift of life from dead my Page 28 auth Omizo unofficial publication Povol. 45, no. 96 wednesday july 23, 1986 med Ranee do a so 0 8693 a Bolivia Calls raids successful by he los Angeles times la Paz Bolivia the bolivian government said monday thai its joint Ami drug operation with . Military forces has broken the Back of the illegal co Caine Industry in Bolivia although Only one Laboratory was round in tour Days of raids. But criticism of the presence of 160 . Military personnel and a Fleet of six . Blackhawk helicopters is rising. Oscar Zamora the president of the Bolivia Senate called a meeting tuesday of a congressional commission that meets while the full Congress is i recess to discuss the presence of . Military forces without congressional approval. In spite of limited results achieved by the joint operation launched Friday minister of information her Man Antelo told a press conference that the major cocaine traffickers Are on the  what we Are seeing is a system that is falling apart and is totally inoperative Alclo said. Drug Traffick ers arc More worried about taking Down their laboratories or fleeing than continuing to produce co Caine. He added that the destruction of the bases of the drug traffickers will be a Long term operation for which Bolivia will need a lot of external  president Victor Paz Eston Usoro who approved . Involvement has estimated that Bolivia would need $100 million in foreign Aid annually for several years to carry out the destruction of this country s cocaine production. Production of pure cocaine from Bolivia is estimated at 100 tons a year about 25 per cent of the world s Supply. The joint operation involves . Military units forthe first time in a four year Effort by the United states to reduce bolivian cocaine exports. So far the results in the raids on suspected laboratories in Backland regions of northeastern Bolivia have been far less than . Officials said they hoped for when the operation was organized. The spotty result raise questions about the Quality of intelligence pre pared by the . Drug enforcement administration that was the basis for the operation. Since Friday when the operation began six raids have been carried put in Bolivia s Beni province where the Dea said it suspected that a dozen laboratories were producing most of Bolivia s cocaine. So far Only one lab has been found. It was capable of producing up to 3,000 pounds of cocaine a week authorities said. The lab. Hidden at a ranch was a hour by air plane North of Trinidad Beni s capital. The Only arrest was that of a 17-year-old ranch hand. The raiders failed to arrest the Pilot of a Small aircraft seized on a Din runway at the ranch. He escaped on foot into the Jungle. Asque grenades hit Spanish ministry rid Spain up suspected Basque i 12 anti tank grenades at the defense 1rain is try eight the at Van by guards tits in 12 Yea no group monday s attack geared that police said the Trot were fired from Street from the Downto six grenades hit the altering several windows. One grenade sliced the fourth floor office of and exploded. The ministry spokesman another Grem monday and set off a car bomb in authorities said. Came a week after a bomb a Lajb in a separatists exploded Killin Flo civil Lack was the worst by bask separate lately claim edit a police so inst were i ability Forin said it a sible. By Remote con parked across the damaging it an Shat the Wall just above the minister Narcis Serra l not in his office a red the of window Ana expired slightly Wol Carlos Vila Mil of the six Penades that missed struck a but Nelter As a bus was a women on v bus were injured authority. An eighth flooring rear . Nin Stry one Vine. Three Sid. Not Hent a car and one lodged in tha Aube from which its fired a spokesman for the Cim Gover nor s ofte in Madrid said. It was not imn mediately  the three other grenades landed minutes after the grenade attack in a car exploded at a nearby Plaza. The vast a policeman two passers by and a Doorman at Rby restaurant. A photo j earthquake epicentre death mate National \ Monument officials inspect the damage caused by car bomb set off in downtown Madrid on monday. Quake powerful aftershocks Rock California Nevada Utah Bishop Calif. A a severe earthquake and two powerful aftershocks rumbled across California and parts of Nevada and Utah on monday wrecking up to 20 Homes cutting off one town s water and Trig Gering Rock slides in the High Sierra. One giant fissure 200 Yards Long and Iso Yards wide swallowed a parked pickup truck and stranded so campers near Bishop. No injuries were reported. Later monday violent thunderstorms prompted a Flash flood warning. The main quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale followed by aftershocks of 5.2 and 5.1, said seismologists at the University of California at Berkeley. The main quake and its aftershocks brought to six the number of sizable quakes in California in two weeks. Monday was 34 years to the Day after a 7.7 quake rocked Tehachapi on july 21,19s2. Seismologists said the recent earthquakes did no portend the great quake scientists predict will hit Southern California in the next 30 years. Monday s main temblor struck at 7 42 . In the White mountains 240 Miles North of los Angeles and was Felt from san Francisco to Las vegas nev., and insult Lake City More than 500 Miles away. The initial aftershock came nine minutes later and the second major aftershock occurred at 3 07 p.m., said Ber Keley seismology lab spokesman Rick Mckenzie. Seismologists said Many dozens of aftershocks surpassing 3.0 on see quake on Page 28  
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