European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday septembers 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Florida task Force fails to Stop drugs Miami not four and a half years after Vic president a Corgi hush established the South Florida task Force the most ambitious and expensive drug enforcement operation in the nation s history the fed eral officials who run it say they have barely dented the drug Trade in the Region. Far More cocaine is being smuggled through Florida today than before the Lase Force was established in february 1982, said numerous officials from nearly dozen slate and Federal agencies. In Florida Law enforcement officers charged with intercepting smugglers say he traffickers have countered their presence by becoming More adept using digital beepers to evade Telephone wiretaps and boats that elude radar for example. Officials say they have had almost no Success i penetrating the principal drug smuggling organizations and in most cases do not even know who the major traffickers Are. We d like to have impacted More but we Haven to said Gerald h. Hochman an official with the drug enforcement administration who direct the task Force s investigative unit. I d like to say we Are at least containing the problem by i am not even sure that is accurate he and other officials said their experience in Flor Ida has taught them that Law enforcement just can Slop the drugs from coming in George d. Heavey regional commissioner of the customs service said we re overwhelmed. It s like fighting the chinese  How Over officials said drug smuggling in Florida would really explode if the Federal program ended. A huge expansion of smuggling and crime in South Florida prompted the government to form the taste Force in 1982. Tons or marijuana and cocaine were pouring through Miami almost daily and the slate and Federal agencies fighting the traffickers were in tur Moil said Jim Dingfelder staff coordinator for the task Force. The task Force has made More than 15,000 arrests and has seized More than six million pounds of Mari Juana and 100.000 pounds of cocaine. Cocaine Sei zures have doubled every year. New Phoenix burglars repent after scolding in t passing Navy Muster by the Washington Post Washington the new version of the Phoenix missile the Navy s most sophisticated and costly weapon for Long Range Aerial combat has been so plagued by production Haws that the service has re fused to Send it to the Fleet and has ordered overhauls of almost 300 missiles. Navy officials say. Delivery of the Phoenix is about Jet years behind schedule because of faulty target detection and rocket ignition devices and production problems at Hughes aircraft corp., said Cape. Jesse Stewart the program manager for Navy air to air missile systems. In addition a Navy inspection of a Phoenix missile in june found 2,694 defects ranging from soldering problems to foreign material that could cause Short circuits. Its subsequent Tea Down report said some of those flaws could of Eccl the missile s reliability and results indicate that the hardware docs not satisfy contract Quality requirements the troubled Phoenix a1m-54c, an advanced ver Sion of the Phoenix missile currently in use is consid ered a key component of the Navy s defense system because of what the service says is its Over the Hori Zon capability to destroy targets up to 124 Miles away. The new version of the weapon which has Cost $1.7 billion to Dale is expected to Cost $5.3 billion by fiscal 1998 when full production of 7,200 missiles is Complete according to the naval air systems come. Pentagon officials first selected major problem with the Phoenix two years ago. Hughes aircraft corp shut Down its Phoenix Assembly line for six months in1984 because of major Quality control problems and marginal workmanship cited by Navy and air Force inspectors but less than a year after Hughes reopened the line Navy tests revealed a flaw in the missile s target Detec Tion device. Pontiac Mich. A a woman who found three burglars in her Home chastised them so strenuously that they returned her belongings reinstalled her videocassette recorder and waited on the Couch for police. I was not  Mareia Sparling said. "1 was deter mined that they weren t going to get away. I m one of those people who believe if you be done a crime you pay for it police reported wednesday that Sparling came Home and found a strange car in her driveway she and her 14year-old daughter. Michelle saw some of their belongings in the seat. She marched inside to confront he m a demanding to know what they were doing. I had no fear at All she said. They were extremely cooperative and Gav me no cause 10 be afraid or  Sparling said she refused their pleas to move her car from behind theirs and let them drive away and insisted she would Call police. The suspects carried her property Back into the House taking time to reinstall the vide Casselle record. Or and television Antenna they had removed. Sparling told the three to sit on the Couch while he daughter reported the theft to the Oakland county she riots department. A Deputy and detective arrived afew minutes later. Kodak to implement drug tests Rochester . A Eastman Kodak co. Will require All Job applicants to take a drug test and will ask workers suspected of drug use to Lake a lest or face termination a company spokesman said wednes Day. The company plans to announce specifics of the testing program in october according to spokesman Henry Kaska. We re not isolated from the drug problem and we re concerned about our workers personal safely Kaska said. Kaska said the testing program similar 10 ones setup by general electric co., Dupont corp. And Amoco would be implemented Only in the United slates where Kodak employs about 65,000 people. About54,000 people work in Rochester where the photo graphic giant has Headquarters. If a supervisor believes that drug use is causing problem he or she will bring it to the attention of the company s medical department which will have the final say on who gets tested. Workers who test positive for drug use could be fired Kaska said. Ship Captain charged in deaths Charlevoix Mich. A authorities have issued arrest warrants for the Captain of a Yugoslavia freighter accused of negligence in the deaths of three fishermen officials said wednesday. The warrant issued tuesday by Charlevoix count prosecutor Kragg c. Liberman charges Seman Franko with two counts of negligent homicide said a prosecutor s office spokeswoman. We fell in our investigation that there was negligence on the pan of the ship s Caplain for failure to Samantha s Mother sues airline Boston a attorneys for Samantha Smith s Mother filed a $50 million lawsuit wednesday against the airline operating the commuter plane that crashed in fog and rain nearly 13 months ago killing the schoolgirl her father and six others. Samantha had attracted National attention by writ ing to then soviet Leader Yuri Andropov mentioning her fears about the possibility of nuclear War. Andro Pov replied by inviting the Maine girl to visit his coun try which she and her family did in 1983. Samantha a and her father Arthur a College English professor were in route Home aug. 25, 1985,from England where Samatha had been filming a segment of the Short lived to series Lime  the Beech be-99 aircraft crashed on is approach Lothe album Lewiston municipal Airport in Maine. Mrs. Smith is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages alleging negligence and wilful Wanton and reckless misconduct on the part of bar Harbor airways inc., now called Eastern express airlines said her Allotey Edgar f. Heiskell Iii of Morgantown . Georgia fires state patrol chief Atlanta up col. Hugh Hardison was Fredas commander of the Georgia slate patrol after a tense and emotional hearing wednesday in which he denied allegations of corruption. The Board of Public safety fired Hardison at closed door meeting that followed the colonel s 70 minute Public response to a Georgia Bureau of investigation report outlining a Ticke fixing scandal. State officials have refused to release the 3,500-Pagegbi report. A Fulton county judge ordered the report released two weeks ago but the state has appealed the ruling. Gov. Joe Frank Harris who initially supported har Dison said he concurred with the decision to fire the commander of the gl6-Olticer state patrol. In a tense and emotional appearance before the 10-member Board headed by the governor Hardison said he would not resign and he said the Obi report was written in a very slanted Way to imply widespread corruption in the Georgia stale patrol. Hardison denied thai there was a widespread ticket fixing problem. Take reasonable and prudent care in avoiding the Colli Sion sheriff George t. Lassler said. Franko had not been arrested As of wednesday afternoon. Lasater said he would serve the warrants when the Jabla Nica reached Sault sic. Marie after re Luming from Duluth minn., where it was loading. The bodies of iwo men aboard the Razel brother were recovered after the 40-foot fishing boat either collided with or was swamped by the 620-foot Jalani Ca on aug. 20 in Northern Lake Michigan. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept 5, 1946 Czechoslovakia s foreign minister backed Yugoslavia s claim to Trieste As the 21-nation peace conference in Paris sought a solution to strife i Venezia Giulia. 30 years ago today. Sept. A 1956 Black students returned to a integrated High school with the National guard watch ing closely for More racial violence in Clinton Tenn. 20 years ago today. Sept. 5. 1966 with a chant of Black Power,"200 civil a gets demonstrators marched into All while Cicero iii., under the Protection of the National guard. They were met by a Hail of bricks bottles and Cherry bombs 0 years ago today. Sept. 5, 1976 roman Catholic and protestant women met in the Center of Craig Avon Bridge in Londonderry and embraced for the Fisl time in the seven years of Northern Ireland s violence. An estimated30,000 massed on the Bridge for the peace