European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                0military role in drug War May increase28 / the stars and stripes sunday May 15,1988 from Page 1 aged in combating the importation of drags. The while House has signalled general acceptance of inc Senate s approach and is expected to support it. L both measures Are amendments 1o a Bill establishing or continuing military programs costing up to $299.5 news briefs mexican building Falls leaving at least 13 dead aguascal1entes, Mexico a sol Diers were called out Friday to help dig for peo ple missing in inc rubble of a collapsed building that filled at least 13 people on thursday. Red Cross and slate government officials con tinned the number known dead and said s3 peo ple were injured. Cilberto Sanchez radio officer Al police head quarters said about 60 soldiers from he army Garrison joined firefighters police and volunteers in the Rescue Effort. Bulldozers and cranes were brought Tram As far away As Sala Manca 78 Miles to the Southwest. Aguas Alicles a City of about  people310 Miles Northwest of Mcnico cily is inc Capi Tal of  stale. By late Friday two or three people were believed still trapped in the rubble n slate govern ment spokeswoman said. Body of army Captain found on Rhine River Island 1ngew1e1m, West Germany Tain who had been missing since May has found dead tucs Daj a an Island in the Ems River copt Thor he. Smith of co. 118th sup pan in 8th inf it maidu As last teen on the morning or april Jour Texas reported missing by his unit May 2 when Mcleod to report to work. The body was Wridt West German   Are investigating the death. Smith he is survived by a son Christopher and a . The children the with Smith a fort wife in san Diego. Smith also is survived by his parents Jocund Lue Smith of Banow Fla. Schweinfurt go arrested in arson murder casert West  a  has non apprehended in  with last month s Itolo murder and Kon in Schwein fun a 3rd inf  a Friday. The Soldier Waltis iut fined in Schweinfurt is in military policy Kunody there Cap. David Tippo Elsaid. It German firefight is responded to is fire at a civil Ian Home in  april 18, they found three bodies one female us two males Intlehouse. The fwd men apparenflvj11" been stabbed and in roman apparently was strangled. German and american military police Are continuing to investigate the Case Tippelt said. Scientists ending efforts to to wild artificial heart  a Federal scientists arc abandoning efforts 10 develop aarm Pletchy artificial nurture heart after Spca diff More thana Quanor Billib a dollars Bechai every use of such devices Chi. Resulted in Jet eventual death of the patient. From now on will concentrate Mil pump thai can hassling heart. Of there Are sir a lot Kopro Blomi that cannot soon be solve with a lot Weart replacement de vice or. A fade Lenfant duh actor of the National heart Luk Gand  said thursday. Etc of attempt at total head rep Acemer has. In a patient dying of either infection or stroke caused by blood clots that develop within the mechanical heart said Lenfant. Font research support r on developing a smaller ther than replace a fail billion for the next fiscal year. The House passed its Bill wednesday and the sen ate is expected 10 piss its version this week. The approval of the Senate amendment came de spite the Pentagon s resistance to widening its cur rent anti drug functions which mostly involve surveillance and despite vociferous opposition from a few senators. I know when i see a steamroller going Down the Road said sen. John Glenn a Ohio who called the amendment absolutely ludicrous adding Here we Are with great drug hysteria  sen. Lowell p. Weicker a Conn accused his col leagues of trying to fight the War on drugs on inc  he said that if the Senate really wanted Loright a drug War it would spend 12 billion to s3 billion to educate american children and Ball the demand for drugs. Weicker and Glenn both warned of serious Lega questions that they said were raised by involving the military in what have Long been civilian Law enforce ment functions. One major difference will be the anti drug provi Sion. The House measure orders president Reagan to have the military substantially halt the flow Ofilley Aldrus into the United states. I think we have a chemical War being directed gains the United slates said sen. Sam Nunn d ga., chairman of the armed services committee. In Selling out the rationale for further involve ment of the military in hailing the drug flow the amendment Stales that the transport of drugs across the Borders of inc uni led slates constitutes a threat to the National Security and stipulates Ihal a mis Sion of inc armed forces will be to assist Federal Law enforcement agencies responsible for the interdiction of illicit drugs entering the United states by an aircraft or vessel. To also slates that the additional funds and re sources necessary to carry out Linese duties should be made available to inc department of defense but makes no mention of How much Money that will take or any explicit guarantee that Congress Wilt provide it. Last year the defense department spent $91. Mil lion on activities related to its current role in the fight against drugs including training and other assistance to foreign countries. The arrest provision was the key stumbling Block into Days of negotiations among senators sponsoring varied approaches to the new military role and be tween those senators and the Pentagon. The final language senators said appeared to be acceptable to the White House the Justice department and inc defense department. It would permit members of he armed forces As signed to duly on naval vessels to which a member of the coast guard has also been assigned to assist or perform any of the Law enforcement functions of the coast guard under certain specified circumstances. The military personnel would have to be specially trained in the Law enforcement functions of the coast guard and would have to be designated by an authorized member of the coast guard. The Pentagon has resisted a larger Rale in the War against drug saying the military i not trained or equipped for the assignment. The Senate anti drug plan was hammered out i three Days of meetings by senators who Pul together parti of two competing proposals. Also involved in the talks were defense Secretary Frank Cariucci and attorney general Edwin Mcnese Iii. Sen. Dennis Deconcini d-ariz., said we a vere ached a Point where drugs arc becoming an enemy equal to any foreign enemy. Sen. Pete Wilson a Calif. Will he formally opposed involving the military but said he changed his mind because the drug flow has reached flood  Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said the plan shows thai we re serious about drug,1 an 1878 Law the posse co Milatus act prohibit the military from enforcing civilian Laws although in was amended in 1981 to permit the military to provide More help to civilian anti drug agencies. Military planes Ana ships now pass along surveillance informs lion on suspected drug traffickers to Law enforcement officials. But the posse co Milatus act a Only effective inside the territorial Borders of the United Stales. One of the Pentagon s main objections to permitting military personnel to be involved in drug arrest was concern that they would then be required to make court appearances in any subsequent prosecution and could themselves become the subject of Legal claims by those who had been arrested. In an Effort to address this concern the amendment would permit the attorney general to treat any Legal action against a member or the armed forces arising from such an arrest As an action against the United slates and the United states would thus be substituted tic cording to Federal figures the military s do Mystic Ami drug efforts last year included 4,000 i hours of Border surveillance by a acs aircraft Pri Marily in the Southeastern part of the country and 6,700 hours in surveillance with other types of planes and helicopters. The amendment approved by the Senate would re quire the president to deploy radar surveillance air Craft in sufficient numbers to provide an appropriate increase in the flying hours dedicated to drug interdiction and an appropriate increase of flying hours dedicated to assisting civilian agencies responsible for drug  amendment does not specify the number of added hours. Nor docs in specify whether any in creased personnel should be devoted to obese functions voting against the amendment were both of Connecticut s senators Weicker and Christopher , a Democrat Glenn Bill Bradley . Alan Cranston a Calif. And Daniel j. Evans a wait. Of those voting against the politically popular men sure Weicker is the Only one facing re election in the fall Evans term is up this year but he is not seeking re election. Aids from Page table drugs. Male in cats outnumber females As much As 15 to i.  accounts for Small but growing Numbert cases. Areas of Central Eastern my Southern Africa and some Caribbean countries. In that areas most cases have occurred among heterosexuals list acting As Man women As men. In some Urban areas Refl archers Esti mate up to 25 percent of the sexually  infected with the virus Ihal causes aids. Areas of Eastern Europe the Middle and most of the Pacific there the aids Vir apparently not introduced until the Early Middle 1980, and Only Small numbers of car Nave Bee reported. Generally cases there have cited among people who have travelled 10 Alt endemic areas Oread sexual Contact with Pectol from such areas according to who. The cd  84,256 aids cases re ported to Whix Tough March 21, the latest data available at Chr Cine the report was prepared. In the Jurf Pericas 42 countries or territories haves 1,602 cases or 73 percent of the world s s the United slates accounted for 94,233 of those As of this week however the United slates has reported 7,363 More cases to the cd Brazil has reported 2,325 and Canada 1,517, eight other countries in the americas have Imore than 100 aids cases Haiti Mexico the i ican Republic Trinidad and Tobago Colombia Argentina and Venezuela a Africa has reported i0,973_or second to the americas Uganda Tanzania of go Kenya Burundi Rwanda Malawi and  each reported More than 500 aids  than 70 percent of Africa said cases  last year. For two african countries Ortyl kones have reported aids. In euj�e727 countries or territories have ,61 p7uds cases with the largest number in  with 3,073 West Germany 1,669 Italy 1.411find inc United kingdom 1,227, the lowest Rales have come from Eastern european countries Oceania has reported 834 aids cases including 753jn Australia White Asia has reported Only 231 cases bile Asia including the populous countries off Inland the soviet Union have reported Only a Beer of cases who director general half Dan Mah maid last year thai some asian nations were most Volnek to an aids epidemic because of weak health care s. The soviet Unn Wand China however both have very great social still Marc and social control As Well As health programs Fiat buld help prevent the spread of aids Mahler said. But even there they Are in very concerned nolo build up very rapidly a incr of surveillance Struc Ture to Deal with aids he said