European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday fbbruary22, 1956 the stars and stripes Page 3 Aid to Panama Mexico denounced critic says . Ignores drug traffic Washington cell the chair Man of a congressional pane denounced saturday   a stale department plan to keep sending Aid old i Anama and music despite their failure to crack Down on drug smugglers. These countries inc been designated a Ristics producing or trafficking countries Kep. I Arry Smith. D-fla., head of tile House International narcotics task 1 orce. Told United press inter National. It  Smith added. It sends a Messari id All these countries thai the United states has a big bark and has no hit. Ii tells Tiu world we Don t have any stomach for the fight the proposal reported saturday in the now York times acknowledges that neither Panama nor Mcnico has fought narcotics traffickers in la enough to War rank continued t?.s military economic and Trade assistance. Hut. Despite this admission and the arc Cal drug profiteering indictment of panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega the proposal urges thai Panama and Mexico be certified  Lull cooperating in the worldwide . War on drug so thai it can keep receiving . Aid because of other . National inter  the report said. Slate department spokesman Dennis Harrr said. The drug report  some thins that  in Progress while Justice department spokesman Patrick Koncen said the report  classified and actively under consideration within the and  we wrestled with this proposed policy nil Day yesterday spokesman Bob Feldkamp of the drug enforce ment administration added. It basically a state department matter. It nothing that we would get into at this  but Smith said the administration  still doing business  usual. They cat up to these individuals and then turn a Blind Eye saying they have other Agenda they have to run. They have a hypo critical policy. They say one thing and do another. They say just say no 10 drugs in the United Stales and overseas they close their  president Reagan and Secretary of stale George Shutlz would have o approve the proposal still in draft stages before it would become official policy. It also must be approved by the National drug policy Board which sets . Anti narcotics policy. The United states has Cut military an economic Aid to Panama following the indictment of Noriega and his top offi cers this month by a Federal grand jury in Miami on narcotics related charges and racketeering. Smith said in 1937 the Reagan administration certified Mexico and Panama  fully cooperating in the War on drugs but Congress revoked inc certification and the two sides eventually reached an accommodation on Aid. He also said Congress could revoke any certification the while House might give to Panama and Mexico this year and  far  he  concerned neither country should be certified. Regarding Panama my position has been that a country that does not de serve to be certified Smith  we  do we ought to try to get Noriega out of his Power  for Mexico we be had the same problems in Mcnico for years said trapped by floodwater a Man str nerd cum girl Frum his torrential Rains in tin Tup of his cur by Fli Kilk bets Little uni Trellu  he panders his Pretl Kumel 1 Rida night in flu do Janeiro. It Sisil caused Flat Idinie and Chaus and City officials confirmed a death toll of 65. Auitt Lut 1 11 Are retired dead in mud Stii Irv Smith who blamed attorney general Edwin a Csc for much of it. There has been no attempt to make the. Mexicans really do anything to punish inc drug smugglers who murdered Dea a genl Enrique Camarina he said adding. Nobody been brought to Justice yet. It Means that they know they can do whatever they please and the United states won t Sanction Thorn. It causing the most significant flow of drugs into this county. In  asked if the proposal Means . Retreat in its War on drug smuggling Harter said i think the clearest answer to that  the answer Given in Friday state department briefing the indictments of Noriega and his cronies arc on the Board Anil we in tend to pursue  Friday the state department fielded questions concerning news reports that Elliott Abram. Undersecretary of slate for latin America asked the Justice department to drop Noriega indictment on condition he step Down  panamanian defense Force Leader and de Faveto head of the country government. Spanish police Crock Down on Urban crimes Madrid Spain api police arrested 1.026 people in a massive dragnet designed to crack Dawn on crime with the emphasis on Urban thefts and drug Traffick ing. In 20 of Spain 50 provinces an Interi or m ministry spokesman said saturday. The spokesman who asked that his name not be used said the arrests Over the past 411 hours were part Ufa coniing ing action dubbed operation  the crackdown came at a time when the Media has focused attention on in creasing Urban crime  one of the coun try worst problems. Police confiscated hundreds of thou Sands of dollars in stolen goods including 91 automobiles. 3j motorcycles. 700 video recorders 33 motorcycles and 700 pieces of jewelry they also confiscated 2 kilograms 4.4 pounds of heroin. 10 kilograms of cocaine. -18 kilograms of hair in and More than s160,00 1 in Cash. Armed with warrants in pics entered nearly 2.001 houses and businesses across the country most in the provinces of Madrid Lla Telona Seville Valencia. Alicante the Northern la que Region and the Canary islands he said. Figures for 19k7 re Lead last week to inc Madrid regional government indicated a 6.2 percent increase Over last year in crimes involving burglary Rob Bery and armed robbers up to i  from 131.32 j. The report also said arrests in the Madrid Region increased 114 percent Over last year from 10,212 to i,6j. Officials also say More than half of Thone detained Are later released without trial. Relief workers kidnapped by ethiopian rebels Brussels api in Relief work ers including a learn the medical Aid roup Mcd Idns sans trimmers Hel ilium wire a suited i u rebel group in the ethiopian province of Tigre an mss ii spokesman said sunday. Reginald More ii of mss a said two belgian doctors and a dutch nurse of the group were taken captive along silk two nuns and an Irish doctor by the rebel popular front Lor the liberation of tile Tigre Laie thursday. Mori cos did nol know the nationality . He said the  were taken from their base in Idaj Lla Muus in the Tigre prov Ince we 34 1 Miles North of the capital add ii Ababa and were apparently unharmed. Mii reels has contacted the Mission of Msf-1 in the ethiopian capital Uitich provided the initial information. No reason for the abduction was immediately known but Marcels said Light ing in the Northern province had been Ink Nii Over the last few weeks and Llie rebels might live taken the doctors to treat their wounded secs Sionil rebels in Tigre have fought the government of. C . Meng. Stu mail Mariam for several years. Mss  an International non govern mental organization that has medical Aid projects in 15 countries in Central America Africa tile Middle Easl and Asia