European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It Koreo unofficial publication for the . 1rmeo forces vol. 48, no. 130 Friday. August 25, 1989 i 5t 0.iy More than i million residents of three Baltic republics linked hands wednesday to form a human Chain across their tiny homelands a defiant repudiation of soviet Rule on the 50th anniversary of their lost sovereignty. Lithuanians. Latvians and estonians took up spots along a 370-mile route from the Gulf of Finland South to the lithuanian capital of Vilnius to demand that Moscow Grant More Freedom and admit it annexed their republics by Force. Organizers said they expected 1.5 million people about one fifth of the Baltic republics 8 million Resi dents to link hands. Initial indications were that More than i million took part. The official soviet news Agency Tass. Said 300.0 10 people joined hands in Estonia and nearly 500.000 in Lithuania. In Latvia. People s front officials said 400,000 participated. After decades of denials soviet officials have admitted that a secret Deal Between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler deeded control of the Baltic states to the Kremlin. But they maintain the nations voluntarily joined the soviet Union. In Moscow police arrested 75 people demonstrating in support of Baltic residents. In Vilnius about 5,000 people gathered in Cathedral Square holding candles and singing the song that was Lithuania s National Anthem until Stalin s tanks rolled into that country and the other Baltic states in 1940. Grazina Siani mitc a 15-year-old lithuanian student from Kaunas said the candles symbolic those who died in exile. When we Light the candles they will be with  Brone sur late 58. One of those exiled under Stalin As the communists set up a soviet regime held a card see Baltic on Back Page Colombia arrests 1 St big drug figure Bogota Colombia a police have reported the arrest of a Pioneer of colombian drug smuggling but those who now run the bloody billion Dollar cocaine Trade remained at Large. On wednesday the government declared its firm decision to extradite traffickers to the United states in the crackdown on the drug underworld that began after the leading presidential candidate was assassinated on orders of the cocaine Barons. Police said they arrested Bernardo Lon Dono Quimiro about 60, in a raid on his daughter s apartment in the Caribbean coastal City of Barranquilla on wednesday. He offered no resist once but a revolver was seized in the raid they said. He is regarded As a Pioneer of the colombian cocaine business which began expanding in the late 1960s, and was the Only person to retain some of his Power when the new in Mac violent generation took Over in the mid-1970s. Police also reported the arrest on wednesday of drug suspect Helena Boa Triz Rodrique. In the coastal resort City of Cartagena. They said she was wanted in the United Stales on drug relate charges but . Officials in Washington said they were unfamiliar with her. Also reported arrested was Rafael or Landes Gamboa for whom Bogota news papers said a . Extradition request is pending with colombian authorities. Officials at the . Justice and slate departments the marshals service and the drug enforcement administration said they had never heard of him. Eduardo Martinez Romero an alleged Money manager for the Meddlin Cartel was picked up during a weekend  and . Authorities said they were trying to arrange Speed extradition but the paperwork might take a week or More. The arrests came during an anti drug Campaign by police and the military prompted by the assassinations last week of a judge a National police colonel and sen. Luis Carlos Galan an outspoken foe of the cocaine lords who was expected to be Colombia s next president. President Virgilio Barco Vargas established emergency procedures for extraditing traffickers wanted in the United states. The supreme court nullified the extradition treaty with Washington in june 1987, after years of intimidation of the judiciary. At least 220 judges and other officials have been killed. Virgilio Barco also authorized seizures of traffickers possessions. Police and soldiers continued raids wednesday on mansions farms office buildings restau rants and other property believed owned by the drug Bosses. Carlos Limos Simonds the communications minister declared wednesday there s a firm decision to extradite suspects but the . Bureaucracy must act quickly. Eduardo Martinez Romero was arrested earlier. Rose faces indefinite suspension sports Page 17