European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 7. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Vermont protecting Tiger Beetle Hartland. A. Api Var Moni which protects endangered creatures great and Small tuesday officially added the Cobblestone Liger decile and sin other Liny beetles to us Hal of Prelec Ted species. We tend to think of something big and glamorous As worthy of Protection and of Small tilings As uni  said Charles John son. The state s naturalist. But there Are pretty important things thai Are Small. Tiny things can have great  the Liger Beetle has become a celebrity of sorts thanks largely to the residents of Plainfield. Vt., who named it town insect at this year s town meeting. After the Plain Flold vote t whirls were printed with a picture of the Bug and its formal name Cicen Cla margin Penn is. A Volkswagen Beetle painted to resemble a Tiger Beetle was featured in Plain Leld s fourth of july Parade. The fast moving Liger beetles Don t bile or sting and can be found along Rivers. . Troops May be used for More drug interdiction Washington up american troops May be sent to nations other than Willnia to Assisi local a flirts to tight drug production a slate department official told Congress tuesday. The bolivian Campaign has now demonstrated the Utility or providing such assistance to foreign governments and we do plan to assist other govern ment in i hair interdiction  Ann Grableski of the state department said during a hearing of the House for eign affairs committee task Force on in icon Aliana narcotics control. Wrobleski. The assistant Secretary Des Ignate of the state department s Bureau do International narcotics matters did not specifically say thai . Military personnel would be used in countries other than Bolivia nor did she Rule out the possibility however. We will not speculate at this Lime on whal future uses May be made of the . Military she said. Such future campaigns May Well be smaller in scope than the bolivian operation and May not invoke the . Military . Troops were sent to Bolivia the source country for at least 60 percent of the cocaine entering the United states last month to assist bolivian forces in finding and destroying Cuc inc production facilities. The Mission was dubbed operation blast  was the Iris Lime . Ground forces were assigned to combat drug in a for eign country since president Reagan de Creed last Spring thai drugs Wen a Ali cat to National Security. American Navy. Air Force and coast guard planes ships and Blimm have Ocen increasingly Uliuli cd for several years in an it la u up smugglers. Edward Rowell . Ambassador to Bolivia told reporters at a slate depart Mem news briefing thai Iho to Titan police wild assistance of six american Heli copters and about 170 troops have now broken up six major laboratories in northeastern Bolivia and interrupted an other one in the process of construction. That amounts to knocking out total weekly cocaine production capacity of s to Svi tons he said bolivian police patrols have separately destroyed 289 coca production facilities he said. I think the Bottom line As things arc running so far. Is hat we have seen a dramatic Impact in inc coca production Economy of Bolivia he said. He said a bolivian delegation is arriving in Washington next week to discuss possihk1 . Economic Aid to make up for the loss to the Economy from inc raids. We re considering what can be done reasonably he said. Wrobleski also told the House panel that her stale department Bureau is building a regional airing which can assist in airlifting troops in Colombia. Bolivia. Peru Ecuador and  i also plans to acquire additional Spray aircraft for use throughout the Southern  she said. Preliminary assessments indicate the . Military operation in Bolivia was a Good decision she said because it Send notice on drug traffickers that they can no longer be confident thai any area is an also Lulu Safe Haven for drug production. The latest assessment by , and bolivian officials on the scene is that co Caine production in Bolivia has virtually slopped and prices paid for coca Leaf in the Cha Pere. The main producing area have declined to an All time Low. We have reason to believe Hal iral fucking pattern have been disrupted not Only in Bolivia bul perhaps in other areas of the Andes she said. Angry Telegram to Delta defends victim of aids Sacramento Calif. Up slate health director Kenneth Kizer has sent an angry it Gram to the president of Delta air lines in defense of an aids victim who said he was denied passage on a plane in a Telegram Laic tuesday to Ron Allen in Atlanta. Kit a said "1 was advised about the difficulty which a resident of san Francisco has encountered in obtaining passage on your airline to return to his Home in Cali fornia and 1 request your assistance in resolving inc  the ice Gram asserts Hal when the unidentified Man new from san Francisco to Allan la last july 30 to visit his family he had with him a doctor s certificate Aslo his illness to travel. Kier said Hal although the Man s condition is unchanged after boarding the Delia aircraft this tues Day morning in Atlanta he was disembarked from the plane and refused passage unless accompanied by a medical  Kricer noted thai Uherc is a difference in facts in versions of the incident As Given by the Man s family and spokespersons for Delta. My Shaft and yours have no been Able to Success fully resolve the  Kizer wrote. As slate health director for California. I req Cal you investigate the matter and assure both of us that this Man is not being denied passage on your air plane just because he has aids and that he is Able to return 10 his Home As soon As  Don t Cross this Field unless you can do it in r =1 seconds. The 3uu can do it in 10 Steve a ,700-Pound Bull does t like strangers and is protective of his pasture says i owner. The message is Clear up Pinto James Minot of Belgrade Maine. Minot erected this sign to warn folks to slay of Sleve i turf. Florida National guard to join War on drugs Tallahassee Fla. A training exercises for hundreds of Florida National guard troops will Row include action against drug traffickers officials said  is an innovative Way to gel  training for National guard  said major Gen. Robert if. Ensslin the guard s adjutant general. The work done by the so in operation exactly parallels  wartime  guard patrols will track drug dealers and Monitor polenta drop in for smuggler in a stopped up War on narcotics within the state Enselm said. It is he first he any state National guard has worked with civil Fen Law enforcement to Slop drug smuggling. The project is the result of a Pilot program called operation Brave Eagle held with the Florida depart ment of Law enforcement in Sis Northeast Florida counties july 12-26. Ensslin refused to name the coun ties. The program did not Resul in any arrests or seizures of drugs bul officials said it brought improved communication that will let the guard continue the drug prevention program with file. File commissioner Robert darn pacy stressed Hal the guardsmen will help with surveillance and gather ing a formation Only. He said arrests and drug seizures will remain the responsibility of the file and local sheriffs departments. There were 300 National guard soldiers and sup port personnel participating in the exercise during their annual 15-Day training period which is funded b the Federal government. The soldiers were armed but ordered not to use their weapons unless their lives were threatened. Small teams of soldiers using night vision toggles and telescopes infiltrated airstrips suspected of being drop off Sites for smugglers. They watched la Sites Day and night and provided information to the file and local sheriffs departments. File agents were on hand if arrests or seizures were necessary. There was one injury during the Mission. A sergeant accidentally fired his pistol shattering a boil of in sect repellent in his pocket. The Man was taken 10 a Jacksonville Hospital with wounds from the plastic Bat the fragments tie was released from the Hospital six Days later