European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. August 17. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 go. Police bust huge cocaine ring Atlanta a police smashed a massive cocaine distribution network tuesday seizing drugs they said would be Worth $73 million on the Street and arresting three alleged conspirators in Clayton county. A. The confiscation of 321 pounds of cocaine tuesday from a recreational vehicle parked outside an apart ment was nearly seven times bigger than the Atlanta area s previous record. The drugs wrapped with color coded plastic in 146 kilogram bricks appeared to have been imported directly from Colombia through South Florida and Des tined for both Atlanta area and out of state markets. Clayton and Atlanta narcotics investigators said. Authorities confiscated the recreational vehicle As Well As nine other vehicles including a Mercedes Ben convertible about $25,000 in Cash and three weapons after a raid on the two Clayton Homes. For this area this is an extraordinary  said Ronald Caffry head of the Federal drug enforcement administration s Atlanta office. It Means this area i becoming More and More important in the National drug traffic As a Deposit site and distribution Center. A Well As serving As the traditional transit Hub for Points North and  police were searching tuesday evening for an fast Point. Cia. Businessman. He has rented the two bed room apartment in the Dahl Ridge apartments on Flat Shoals Road since Early 1986 at a rate of $495 a month apartment officials said. Then this Spring he bought and redecorated a $100,000 two Story House in a comfortable Riverdahl subdivision. Neighbors there who claim there is Little crime in the area began to suspect something was amiss in june when the Man installed an extensive burglar harm sys tem and rigged a surveillance camera above the doors to the two car garage. We thought something was going on but nobody could put their fingers on it said one Man who lives a few doors away from the Light Brown House. There was just so much strange activity people pulling up the driveway flashing their lights and getting let into the  the 25-foot recreational vehicle carrying the cocaine arrived at the Flat Shoals apartment just hours before police stormed it about i . Tuesday kicking in windows and lobbing a smoke grenade that shattered a neighbor s sliding Glass door. Arrested in the apartment and charged with cocaine trafficking were Mack Arthur Davis 48. Of College Park and David George tyndale 38, of Miami. Killed by terrorists a picture of Rita Susan Levine killed in a terrorist attack outside Jerusalem july 18, stands in front of her parents Sidney and Gertrude Levine during a memorial tribute to her tuesday in Philadelphia. Moshe Arad cent Eris. Ambassador to Israel offers his condolences to the la Vince. Quayle gives Bush goals to key civil rights group by the Baltimore Sun Atlanta vice president Dan Quayle tuesday outlined what he called sonic music and action in response to a Black Leader s character i action of presi Dent Bush s racial policy promises last week As merely the right  speaking in Atlanta before the annual convention of the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence one of the Veteran organizations of the nation Scivil rights move ment Quayle said Bush spoke for the both of us when he vowed to make America open and equal for  but Quayle said Quayle the administration and the civil rights Community May differ from time to time As to the course that this nation must  although we do not differ on the ultimate  it was the Rev. Joseph Lowery presi Dent of the Sulc who had said of Bush s speech before the National Urban league on the new administration s racial policies we have heard or. Bush say the right words. Now he must turn on the music and dance with  with Lowery seated next to him Quayle responded that he had heard some talk that the president s Kinder gentler rhetoric is not enough. That Black americans want to Sec some action As Well As some  Lowery had surprised other Black leaders by inviting Quayle to be the key note speaker at the Sulc convention. Quayle is regarded As a conservative on racial issues. But the Sulc president a close ally of the late Rev. Martin Luther King jr., often is a Maverick on civil rights issues. He was one of the Tew Black leaders to support the president s unsuccessful at tempt to name William Lucas As assist ant attorney general for civil rights. Poll bad news for Quayle by the Washington Post Washington a year after his selection As George Bush s running mate. Vice president Dan Quayle has failed to persuade most americans he is qualified to Lake Over the presidency and seems to be making Little Progress in improving his standing a new Washington Post Abc poll indicates. In the aug. 4-8 Survey of 1,022 respondents 52 percent said Quayle was not qualified to take Over the Oval office if something should happen to the presi Dent while 38 percent said he was Quali fied. The new Survey one of the first done on a vice president offers Little Good news to Quayle but does provide an opening Large numbers of those questioned do not yet have an opinion about him. Quayle s approval rating dropped Over the past two months but so did the number of those who disapprove of him while the undecided segment grew Quayle said he now feels confident in the Job. I think we arc off to a Good steady  among the poll findings some 43 percent of those questioned approve of the Way Quayle is handling his Job compared to 22 percent who disapprove while 34 percent had no opinion. That puts the vice president s approval rate some 25 Points lower than Bush a a drop of nine Points since March. Those questioned arc nearly divided on whether Bush made a mistake in choosing Quayle. Asked if Bush should pick someone else As a running mate if he seeks a Sec Ond term 43 percent said he should while 38 percent said he should not. . Airport gets plastic explosives Detector by the Washington Post Washington the newest generation in anti terrorism technology a $1.1 million machine capable of detecting plastic explosives in Luggage arrived anew York s Kennedy International Airport tuesday. The machine is the first of six purchased by the Federal aviation administration for installation by the end of the year at Kennedy London s Gatwick Airport and airports in Frankfurt West Germany Detroit Miami and san Francisco. The device at Ken Nedy should be operating by sept. 1. The 10-ton Thermal Neutron analysis device called Tea is billed As the first machine available to detect the Type of plastic explosives believed to have cause the Des Ruc Ion last car of pan am flight 103 Over Loc Cibie Scotland killing 270 people. The Faa must decide by the end of the month whether it will require airlines to install some 400 to a or similar machines at 36 foreign and Domestic airports to screen All . International flights. The proposed Rule would give the airlines three years to acquire the equipment. The airlines facing hundreds of millions of dollars in potential costs As Well As the potential delays involved in screening billions of bags have urged the Faa to slow Down. Teas Are among a variety of new devices called explosives detection systems that have ctn examined by the government and . Airlines since air India flight 182 was blown out of the sky in june 1985, killing 329 people. Plastic explosives Are Pult like chemical materials that can be folded into any form and Are virtually transparent to a Ray detectors. A Ray detectors Are use Ful for spotting weapons made of Metal or that have identifiable shapes