European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 1, 1988 the stars and stripes page7 Forest pot growers to feel Federal heat from Tough new Law Washington a agriculture department officials backed by Tough new Law enforcement Powers Are vowing 10 wipe out thousands of ions of marijuana grown an Clandestine plantations deep in the National forests. A so member unit will investigate mar Ijuana growers representing a highly organized criminal element and guarding their Forest enclaves with snipers attack dogs and lethal traps officials said thurs Day. Agriculture department agents will be equipped with Sec in the danc spy Scopes and other High tech devices in the War on growers who produce $1 billion Worth of marijuana in the National forests annually amounting to ,10 percent of the . Crop the officials said. They said the danger to tourists and Forest rangers from the growers has be come so great that 940,000 acres of the National Forest system s 191 millionaires Are now under constrained management meaning Federal workers try. To avoid them and warn tourists they arc Loo dangerous to enter. I consider this to be an  agriculture Secretary Rich Ard Lyng told a news conference that included a videotape of agents in Camou Flage combat fatigues launching military style assault on a hut sur rounded by Forest it also depicted agents ripping out Ean nazis plants and feeding them mid a tire that produced Clouds of smoke. It showed another group lacking up a pot Buster poster showing a Green marijuana Leaf with i red line through it and warning that growing in was illegal. Our goal is a very simple one we Hope to make the National forests free of marijuana Lyng said. The National Forest service an Agency of the agriculture department mad Public a map showing heavy marijuana growing activity in Northern California Southern Illinois and the Ozark mountains among other placet. George Dunlop the assistant Secretary of agriculture for natural resources an environment told the news conference that the growers were pan of a a highly organized criminal  these Aren t just casual counterculture Type Folk who arc Back in the Woods Saidi Dunlop a former Marine. Dunlop will spearhead the drive which was authorized at a level ofs20 million Byich newly mimed anti drug Law. Booby trips used by marijuana Growen in National forests Are displayed by Edward few assistant director of Law enforcement for the us Forest service. He called the marijuana being grown in the National forests an extremely potent mind altering drug and added we Are just being overwhelmed by the amount of marijuana that is being  he said increased penalties in the new Law for  growers who use devices to maim and kill to guard their crops rep resent an obvious Effort to give them a Market incentive not to use Booby  on hand to demonstrate Booby traps that have been removed from the nation Al forests was special agent de few who worked in California until recently one trap shown Al the news conference consisted of a wooden beam with a rat trap attached. When a trip wire Springs the trap shut a Nail is driven into a connected pipe containing a Shotgun Shell which then fires at anyone in its path. Wolfman Jack flip flops Over Campaign and los Angeles a a Campaign television commercial for sen. Alan Cranston has radio personality wolfman Jack howling in pro test demanding removal from the airwaves of a spot which uses a Gravelly voice like his. The com Mereial spot has been a minor Sensa Tion in a season of political ads that usually Fea Ture the talking Heads of candidates. Modelled after late night television commercials for Golden oldies records the and s announcer identifies himself As Jack Nan Wolf and the tells viewers about the non existent album package. The and is based on Cranston s Contention that his Republican opponent rep. De Zschau has changed his stance on issues to suit the situation. Aimed at Young voters the commercial has been placed on mtg locally and other shows that attract a Youthful voting age audience. It shows a Mirror image of Zschau Over which the names of non existent tunes such As the Zschau Bop flip Flop and How Many Tim scan a Man change his mind Are scrolled. We be called the Cranston offices asking that the ads be taken off the air immediately said Don Pilot agent for wolfman Jack who has a show  he s super sensitive about this  Pitts   Wanti Obiden . Soviet pullout from Afghanistan called a Sham and deception Washington a the soviet Union is still unable to defeat the afghan rebels and its Sham and deception in withdrawing some troops from the asian nation indicates that the military situation there remains unsettled a Pentagon intelligence officer says. Although the soviets announced a major troop withdrawal they actually removed some unneeded units an substituted units better suited to the Type of lighting there air Force it. Gen. Leonard h. Per tools the director of the defense intelligence Agency said thursday per tools at a Pentagon briefing said that before the pullout began the soviets had 118,000 troops inside Afghanistan. Now the number is about 116,000. If soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had made Good on his pledge of july 28 to withdraw six regiments the number would have dropped to 112,000, Perroots said. The withdrawal did not have that effect he said because the soviets sent in tanks and motorized Rifle regiments in August and september expressly for the purpose of being Able to withdraw  they were put in to Lake out the general said the United states has Clear and convincing Evi Dence that soviet claims of having withdrawn six regi ments from Afghanistan arc a Sham and deception he said. He refused to describe the evidence. Perroots also said the afghan Mujahideen resistance continued to Battle soviet troops into a stalemate that the soviets had suffered 25,000 dead or wounded sol Diers and lost More than 500 aircraft in the course of the seven year War and that the afghan army supposedly fighting alongside the soviets had been decimated by casualties detections  when the soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the afghan army included 80,000 troops. Perroots said that number has now dropped to 30,000.the uniie.1 nations is preparing to vote nest week on a Resolution sponsored by Pakistan that Calls for the  of All foreign troops from Afghanistan. Such a Resolution has cleared inc United nations during each of the past seven years Only to be ignored by the soviet  Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger during a trip earlier this month to Asia branded the soviet pullout a  the soviet news Agency Tass responded by calling Weinberger a  the Only real reduction in troop strength involved the removal of three air defense regiments which were clearly not needed in Afghanistan Perroots said. The Mujahideen have no air Force. In the seven years of War in Afghanistan not a shot has been fire Din anger by an air defense  despite the fanfare accompanying Gorbachev s withdrawal announcement the soviet unwillingness to withdraw militarily significant assets from Afghani Stan Telb us something important Perrotis said. Contrary to their assertions for International audiences and Back Home in the .s.r., the soviets apparently do not feet secure enough to give tip any real fighting forces the political Appeal of the puppet afghan government is not growing and despite Over whelming firepower mobility and logistical superiority soviet and Kabul regime forces Are not defeating the Mujahideen he said. The moslem resistance can Stie Field about 150,000men against the soviets and still controls the country Side be said puerto Rico balks on Contra training proposal new York not the governor of puerto Rico said thursday that the Federal government had not. Consulted him about a proposal to train Icara Guan rebels in he Caribbean common wealth and he warned Fiat any a my would create tag wheat political problems on theist and. We have bad absolutely no Indica Tion from they United state govern ment that it would want to train con tras in puerto Rico gov Rafael Hernandez Colon said in an interview with editors and reporters at the new York times referring to the anti sandinista forces. "1 would think that is be cause puerto Rico has some very difficult  a Reagan administration official said this week that puerto Rico was being considered As a training site for the rebel. That proposal came after tie government of i Salvador Honduras and Costa Rica Hod indicated to Wash the contras estimated to nun for More than 20,000. To train on their soil an american Possession since 1898,puerto Rico has been a Cotuno wealth associated with the United suites since 1952. Al part of that arrangement puerto Richani living on the Island Are Ameri can citizen to eligible for service in the armed Force but do not pay Federal taws and Nave no voting representation the United states has maintained Sev eral major military bases in puerto Rico including a naval station at Roosevelt roads and Sites on the offshore islands of Vieques and cute Bra the puerto rican installations Are closer to the Contra bases of operation than military Bajes on the american Mainland and have a tropical climate and terrain that More closely resembles that of Central America