European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 30, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 gis reportedly attacked in Panama by the new Yirk times american military documents de scribe nearly 300 reports of harassment of american servicemen in 1 Anania in 1he six months after the United Stales indicted Gen. Manuel Antoniu Noriega on drug chutes. The documents indicate Hal repealed american proles is Hiiva had no effect the documents in the form of fact Sheeh and memos compiled by the Southern Conid. The american military for latin America read like entries in a police blotter describing accounts of american officers who were Scalen kicked and sometimes shot by member of the defense forces the country s miliary and police. The documents were made available to the new York times. They show thai 300 cases of harassment described repeated official protests of the incidents to panamanian officials through Llie joint committee a United slats pants Man inn group that oversee the i Anama canal treaty largely have been ignored. Only a few of the incidents have been addressed by the panamanian authorities and in none of she cases have the authorities acknowledged wrongdoing by Panama s military or police officers according 1o the documents. Although the number of incidents has decreased somewhat since reports of harassment of servicemen surfaced last month a disinformation Campaign against american servicemen has intensified and the Issue of harassment continues to provoke considerable debate within the Southern come and Amon various government agencies in Washington. Southern come officials contend they arc doing All they can to protect Ameri can servicemen saying Llie incidents in lust rate How Little leverage they have with their panamanian counterparts in the current hostile atmosphere he i Ween inc two nations. Sending letters Back and Forth May be pro forma but Ai least it puts us on record on the Way thai business should be conducted said col. Ron Sconiers spokesman for the Southern come. The incidents Are very concerning. And every Day we review at the highest level Here what incidents Hare taken place and what action should be of other kinds of military actions there is Siulc we can Pentagon officials said there was lilt a the United slates could do. As the provi Sions of inc Panama canal treaty never assumed that relations with Panama would turn hostile i Don t think any of his was anticipated under the one Pentagon official said calling the current situation administration officials particularly in the slate department and mid ranking officers in the Southern come maintain that the command s leadership is More intent on carrying out business As usual with the Noriega re Gime than on vigorously protesting harassment of servicemen. Budgeting change l director James c. Miller Iii wors questions after announcing his resignation effective ocl is. He will be Rcpt owl by his Deputy Joseph Wright at right. His departure is nut expected to Haio a. Major effect on Llie administration s policies. Wright will oversee the drafting of kenyan s lust budget. Convictions hailed in agent s murder los Angeles a the conviction of three mexican nationals in a . Drug agent s murder in Mexico is being hailed by Federal Law enforcement officials As Only the beginning toward bringing All the killers to Justice. Our goal is to see that everyone who participated in the torture and kidnapping and murder of agent Enri que Camarina is brought to Justice . Attorney Robert Bonner told reporters after wednesday s Var Dick against the third of three defendants. In Washington John c. Uwin. Chief of the drug enforcement administration said he will press the crusade for Justice in Camarina i killing which authorities allege was masterminded by reputed mexican drug Baron Rafael Caro Quintero. The eight week trial included evidence that mexican police took bribes 1o protect drug smugglers and the Case strained .-Mesican relations. A . District court jury that deliberated six Days returned its last verdict wednesday find ing convicted drug trafficker Jesus Felix Gutierrez .18, guilty of Aid ing and abetting the 1985 torture murders of Camarina and his Pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar. Jurors concluded Felix Curierre. Helped Caro Quin Lero escape to Costa Rica after the murders. Authorities allege that Caro Quint pm wanted revenge for Dea raids on his marijuana plantations. Earlier the same jury in Guadalajara Mexico convicted a homicide investigator Raul Lopez Alvarez,28, and a drug trafficker Rene Verdugo Urquidi 36, of participating in the Kidnap murders. Nine men were indicted in los Angeles in the Mur Ders but Only three were tried. One was subsequently killed in a shoot out. Four including Caro que Micro were tried in Mexico. Sen. Adams account disputed us ii cd a Usu i f i r ii i Wright probe by father or alleged sex victim committee declines to Aid Washngton a p the House 1 n Lelli Genic committee ill a closed Doi in ses Sion voted wednesday not to give the ethics committee classified material for n requested investigation of i Louse speaker Jim Wright s disclosure of purported Cia activities in Nicaragua. The panel s fiction was scripted a Day before in a session of committee democrats the majority admonished members not to talk about what was done in the session angering some cop members. Wright told reporters last week that he had Clear testimony from the spy Agency that . Agents sought to provoke i Mon strut ions and civil unrest thai would Lead to harsh crackdowns by the leftist sandinista government. The aim Wright said was to sabotage faltering peace talks Between the government and the Contra rebels. Democrats argued they would not turn Over relevant information to the ethics panel in part because they had received no formal request for it. By the wish inulin i int Washington the father of former congressional aide who accused sen. Urock Adams of sexually assaulting her angrily disputed Adams account of the incident. It is difficult to express How betrayed every member of our family has Felt Badams actions said or. Jim Tupper the father of Kari Tupper the 26-year old former Capito Hill aide. Over the last two Days Brock Adams has alleged that Kari and our family have harassed him Jim Tupper said. Noth ing could be further from the Kari Tupper filed a complaint with District of Columbia police on july 24, i9b7. Claiming Adams d-wash., sexually assaulted her when she spent the night in his Washington Home four months earlier. 1 Glicco officials consider the matter closed but Tupper said wednesday he would pursue it. Tupper in 1980 Adams there was no discussion either by or. Tupper or me of the possibility of civil litigation Stan bearer a partner in Adams old Law firm told the Seattle times. There was no discussion of any terms or basis for settlement the subject of compensation was not raised either by Jim Tupper or Kari Tupper told police she was at Adams Home when he drugged her by placing something in a drink then raped her. Tupper said she arranged the meeting with Adams that night not because she was distressed by her Job As Adams has said but because she wanted to Tell him to Stop bothering her. Tupper said that at some Point in 1985 two years before the alleged Inci Dent at Adams Home the senator asked her to have sex with him Accord ing to the report. On the evening in question Tupper and Adams agree that they had arrange to have dinner at a Georgetown restau rant. They also agree she called his House believing he forgot the dinner. She went to his House where Adams was with several friends with whom he was planning to have dinner because his wife Betty was out of town. At some Point the friends departed
