European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 18,1987 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Robe reveals corruption Imong customs inspectors Losangeles a a yearlong crackdown in the customs service uncovered a nation wide problem of inspectors taking bribes to close the Reyes Lodrago smuggling an official said. The investigation called operation clean resulted in 16 criminal prosecutions of custom inspectors Irva dozen Cilien and the filing of charge against 58 owner person accused of corrupting Agency employ Bay William Green associate custom commissioner few internal affairs. Almost All Theu ases involve bribery he said Mon Day and Moil Are vetted to drug trafficking. The amount Almoney involved especially wit drug it Mega pfc problem throughout the whole Law enforcement Chaty Green told the los Angel estime. We can final say we be addressed our prob Lem. 1 Don t know to Many other Agenda can Tay that \ la the past in customs ceo Ter cd i the bribery of of Cert at seaports and air Pom when agents acc ple payoffs to Tower duties or admit contraband. \ Bui with the growing drug vide More custom offi cers have been recruited to to drug smuggler by ignoring illicit shipment compoc Disint investigation or helping smuggling operational the Campaign was launched after customs com missioner William von Raab a urged in May 1986 that ingrained corruption in Mexico criminal jus Tice system hampered . Efforts to Flop drug activities fat the Lime the information abnegation or Hor ror stories were still coming in Auasi or faster than we could address them Green Saif about 35 investigators frown her customs division were assigned to work with of of Green s internal affairs agents. Eight teams Fkd across the unite states investigating lips my intelligence reports to develop cases. Agents Jjck mowed informants co workers or inspectors an went undercover in the course of the of the cases tapered front line inspectors the customs officials most useful to smugglers if they can be compromised instigators said. Like most Law Enn Cement agencies Green said the customs service Ufa to tight corruption from the moment it begin redwing a potential checks Are followed by extensive Traini Iwin integrity and ethics and ongoing investigations it internal affairs officers. Officials a the National Treasury employee Union customs employees said they were Onawa Jolof operation clean sweep. The Union appeals court decision that rejected the taint objections to mandatory drug testing for Agency leg Delta Forca was Pope in 1985 to storm hijacked it paper says new York a trans world Allinei sent passenger plane to Italy to carry a . Ary anti terrorist Force to assault the hijackers of a 1%a Jet in june 1985, it was reported monday. The will Sirwet journal reported the came off and the hijacking which began june left an american Sailor dead was resolved by Lions after three weeks. A plan to have the army Delia Force storm was ruled out in part because the hijacked per Algiers Algeria and landed in Beirut Leba chances Oia successful assault were much newspaper said. It said it Twa internal report detailed f airline s1rote in trying to end the crisis and free Ofifi Ameri cans held the commandeered plane land an Beirut i screw fooled the hijackers into believing anal two of the plane s three engines had failed to or no the Jet from in essence the flight Engineer Flanel lit up like Acari Fynus Nee with flashing Wang lights and Oral situate to the Crew. In addition Berag Damn Good Pou they were Damn Good a Fly Jerry Cosloy a Twa vice president at the its of the hijacking told Abc nightly the journal account said Tiff on the second Day of the hijacking. With the plan exp the runway in Algiers r . Emergency support team a group of 8 dozen terrorism experts and a hostage negotiator took off for the Mediterranean to pave the Way for the Delta Force. Twa was asked to provide one of its planes to Serveas a Trojan horse to Fly the Delia Force into the Algiers Airport because if a big . Military plane roared into Algiers Airport the hijackers would suspect it was carrying an assault team the journal reported Twa agreed and sent a plane which it arranged to have disappear in route. The deception was executed by the Pilot who switched off his radio Beacon causing the plane s Blip to disappear from the radar screens of italian air traffic controllers. The plane then headed toward a rendezvous wit the Delta Force Ai Sig Onetla a . Navy base in Sci but the hijacked plane had taken off for Beirut Sev 1 hours before the support team reached the Algier sport. The team had to travel by scheduled Commer 1 flights because the algerians would t allow a Miti Jet to land. A Pfaue the italian government had delayed give Mission for the United Stales to use the Signet lab which delayed be Delia stonewalled us for hours and Days the Jour Nal fumed an Anonymous former White House official assay ill. Officials also had said they would not Toler ate any is. Attack on their soil the newspaper said. 20,500 Damadian Lette carriers strike Ottawa up it tailing to negotiate a new contract with the gov Emem own Post office Canada s 20.500 letter caiv9 walked off the Job in major cities across the coun a tuesday. The letter Carrie Lunion which has been demand ing new work Inland Job Security refused to say where strikes Are ring held. However mail carriers already have set picket tines in Montreal and also Are expected to fac in Calgary. Alberta a Canada a spokesman said after 40 hours of con Stop neg Lions that the parties Are a Long Way from a set urn. Canada Post intends to use hundreds of Abb orders to deliver the , president of the letter carriers Union Ranada told reporters monday that the Union Lul hold rotating strikes in designated areas of Fth entry to add pressure at the bargaining , tic said a National strike is a possibility at a strikes will affect about 800,000 pieces off Merican mail per Day. Canadian letter carriers an estimated 300 million pieces of . Mail year. E rift Between the Union and Canada Post centers on new work re and Job Security. The Union is asking for Little More i Holthe Cost of living allowance in pay hikes Bui it has reject demands by the Post office that letter carriers accept snigger workload and the right to Lay off employees who scabs become Post off Cebas been ordered by the government to break even in 1 Carr pfc Ideal of the Canadian labour Congress which in Des the letter carriers Union accused the Federal Anser alive government of trying to break the Union. A said Job Security provisions Are critical to the survive of the Union since the Post office intends to begin contracting out some of the work to the private sect a Carr also warned thenos office not to use Scab labor in the event of a Svic saying in would create bad it if strik Breakers Are allowed into plants there will be tense moments she Saio the letter carriers unit already has agreed to let inside postal workers Cross air picket lines. But 3spokesman for inside worked said his Union could Stop the mail moving by refing to cooperate with Scab Roundup German general name Jato Azacs unit Chu jeilenk1rchen, Germany s&5 k air Force Brig. Gen. Albert wet Flook com land of the nato airborne Early Hningforcai-3a component in a ceremony Tibaya. Web took command from . If Force Brig. A. Hugh l. Cox Iii. The cowhand of the Between German find .generals. Weber was director of cd bal armed forces flying safely for Basc car the dutch a ordeals Home to nato s e-3\vwacs aircraft Iru Ibric manned by Crews Fror a 1 nations. The Blit provides nato with Suva Illano cont round communications support for air opera bus including close air support a Cue recon Pance and air lift. \ j presiding Over maj. rimmed Conroe Andews nato s air borne Early warning Al acc of shape. Rimmed who was the first come hedvat the Sci Lenoir Chen base passed Contr fhe unit to Cox injure 1984. Nato tank i for Canadice vying trophy competitions a trop award began Lay Afi Ernson nine nato4 had comped firing for the Canadian monday and by to Plank platoons out the gunnery Awan the Nat pc Northern army group ism tag and the Central army group Cental will last through Day. The top three teams pm each group also a received trophy fro Rajbir respective groups. The score Flor the nine platoons to have finished arc nortafi"43rd Taiton Netherlands 18,260. 2nd bik6th regt 2nd army div of i United sirs 17,551 w 3rd e�21lh Panier in Germany 16,6724th Ujj Cecers regt Belgium 16,422. 3bk Royal Hussars regt Britain 16,606. I Panzer in Germany 17,722.yal Canadian dragoons Canada 17,157. I pit 4th so 8th army Cav 3rd army div Ted states 16,980. Ord pit 3rd in 64th army 3rd inf dive rfcs states 16.792. Put units participate in Rodeo at rams Ramstein a Germany Sams from 14petroleum, 1 and lubricant i ifs across Safe competed Sarday in the ill Rodeo a con test covering various fue Livand fuel truck safety Overall Wuner a Rhein main a Ger Many. Second it Avrem to Span Dahlem a Germany while Zal Toza a Spain took third. Fourth place Swedko Zamstein main in 3w tire changing Competition. Ramstad top firs place in the checkpoint event wbk required teak to find hidden safely errors i a fuel truck. Winstein also won the driving comp Euf Lik a Turkey won a slalom event a r Competition. first in backing Competition. World airways to move operational base to Dulles Washington up Oakland based world airways which has operated charter flights for nearly four decades said it will move its operational base Lod Ulles International Airport and its corporate head quarters to nearby Herndon a. World look Over key airlines in March a new hold ing company named world corp will be formed id oversee operations of the combined companies. World corp and its two subsidiaries will employ about 225 people by year s end world airways chief executive officer Coleman Andrews said monday. Andrews said he expects 100 of those jobs to con Efrom the Washington area
