European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. November 14, 198b the stars and stripes Paga 5 . War on drugs ineffective Gao says Washington a bolivian Farmers put three times As much new land under coca cultivation in 1987 As inc government of that country eradicated under an agreement with inc United Stales according to con Gressional investigators. Widespread corruption in Bolivia and the violence of the drug lords in Colombia along with greatly increased cultivation have rendered the stale department s anti drug programs in i Host countries ineffective investigators for the general accounting office said in a report. The Gao did not examine the programs of the drug enforcement Agency in Bolivia and Colombia Colombia it the world s largest producer of cocaine which is made from inc coca Leaf and the Wurche of 75 percent of the . Supply. Production capacity for 1987 was estimated by the state department at 143 ions. Bolivia is he second ranking producer with an estimated capacity of 99 tons. State department anti drag in inc two countries will total si06 million by the end of the current fiscal year with current annual spending about$10 million in each country. Spending by the drug enforcement Agency and drug related spending by the Agency for International development in Bot i coun tries add $1 $.6 million a year. A voluntary coca eradication program wiped out 2,570 acres in 1957 and Early 1988, an All Lime High for Bolivia but an estimated 8,150 acres were brought under cultivation making the total about 100,000 acres the report said. Bolivian narcotics interdiction efforts during 1987 were even less impressive since Only 2 percent of the coca paste produced in Bolivia was seized in addition to 326 pounds of cocaine the Gao report said Colombia Hai made a notable Effort to combat coca cultivation and processing and has been the most co operative of All andean countries but was unable to prevent banners from increasing coca area from 38.300 acres in 1985 to 61,800 acres in 1987, the report said. Colombian eradication fell from 4,940 acres in 1985 to 1,140 acres in 1987, while seizures of laboratories nearly doubled Tram 715 to 1,360 in the same Lime. The murders of judges government ministers police officers and newspaper editors has made ilex Tremley difficult for the government of Colombia to recruit qualified individuals to serve in police and judicial offices the report said. . Expectations May exceed the realistically Achie Vable goats and the a elect that a $10 million narcotics control program can have on a Well established billion Dollar Industry in Colombia the report said. Narcotics corruption is viewed As the largest single problem affecting . Narcotics control efforts in Bolivia. According to several , and bolivian officials corruption exists within All Levels of the bolivian government and very few government officials can be trusted the Gao said. The report said coca eradication efforts were bound to remain futile until an effective herbicide is used Iii aerials praying programs As Colombia does with marijuana. Cajun tips for soviet chefs cajun chef Paul pin Lhomme left trades culinary secrets saturday with russian chefs touring new Orleans As part of the soviet american culinary Exchange program. The 10 Mcm bar soviet group including Throe Moscow chefs and four Folk musicians began a id Day eight City tour of the United Stales tuesday in Washington. Man convicted in Philadelphia stalker trial Philadelphia a a Man accused of being the Center City stalker has been convicted of robbery assault and attempted rape in 10 attacks on women in downtown office buildings. Dozens of cases of Blue nun wine recalled after Glass found in bottles new York up the West German manufacturer saturday re called dozens of cases of Blue nun while wine after shards of Glass were found in bottles sent to Canada Northern Ireland Britain and possibly the United states. The wine that was recalled is in lots beginning with the numbers 4, ii a 15 or 20 near the Bottom Edge or the Bottom of. The bottle. John Rapp a spokesman for a Sichel Johnc the manufacturer said. He said the bottles were made of weak Glass that chips when the bottle i uncorked and drinking wine from the defective bottles could be potentially the chips Are Rathe Small he you d be Able to see is that the lip is damaged. If the lip in t damaged the wine is Safe to drink. -. The weak Glass was manufactured by. An Independent bottling company in Germany Rapp said. He said Blue nun wine was recalled in Canada Northern ire land and Britain and the manufacturer is trying to determine if defective Bollis were sold in the u piled states. Sichel will reimburse Consumers for the defective bottles he said. Of her Sichel wines Blue nun mag num. Blue nun Gold Blue nun spar Kling and Blue nun ovum were not affected by the recall. Girl killed in los Angeles gang shooting los Angeles up1 a 16-year-old girl was killed but her two friends escaped injury when their car was peppered with bullets by rival Gap members armed with assault rifles investigators said saturday Monique Murphy 16, of los Angeles died following the 11 . Friday attack outside a liquor store. Two gang associates Tanisha Lytic 18, and a i7.year old girl whose name was not released were hot hit detective John Bunch said. The17-year-old girl was wounded oct. 30 in another gang related shooting atthe same location in which a Man was killed Bunch said. The girls had driven up to the liquor store and one of them got out and went. Inside. When she returned several male members of a rival gang got out of their car walked up and fired about 20 rounds from two or three assault rifles the gunmen fled in their car and have not been captured Bunch said. The shooting appeared to be a act of gang rivalry. If you see someone from a rival Gan you shoot Bunch said. Police said there were 207 gang kill Ings in los Angeles during the first 10 months or inc year a 24.7 percent jump Over the 166 in the same period of 1987. In All of 1987, there were 205 gang slay Ings a record at that time. Being shown More than 100 pieces of evidence. One of the stalker s victims wept when the verdict was read Don t think i la Ever forget this the woman old the Philadelphia inquirer which did not use her name. I thought that i d be a lot happier. I really Don t feel thai Good 1 feel sad for three months the so called Stalke terrorized women who lived or worked downtown. He hid in stairwells and Hall ways in office buildings within six blocks Foci Myhall. Me used tricks or Force to get Young Vic Tims into out of the Way locations where he would Rob or so usually assault them. The defense contended police arrested disc wrong Man because officers were pressured to wrap up the Case. Attorneys leaned heavily on conflicting descriptions of the attacker from the 10 victims. Prosecutor Christopher Rooney characterized Gregory As a compulsive sexual deviate. -.-. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today nov. 14, 1948 the president of inc far East military tribunal labelled japanese emperor Hirohito As a Leader in War crimes but conceded that the emperor s immunity front trial was in the Best interests of the Allied Powers. 30 years ago today. Nov. 14, 1958 . Arms negotiators reassured tunisian president Habib Bourguiba that France would have Noth ing to say about whether . Arms would be sold to his country. 20 years ago today. Nov. 14. 1968 Indian prime Minniter Indira Gandhi was heckled by oppo sit Ion members of parliament while give in a speech defending the firing of nearly 10,000 government employees who had gone on strike. 10 years ago today. J. Nov. 14, 1978 after receiving an Anonymous Telephone lip Cossi guard officials. Seized s33 million Worth of drugs from a boat in the Jamaica Bay Section of new York City
