European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o new rules help Consumers find Best credit cards Page 3 o drug accusations Cut support for . S Barry Page 5 d a one Way trip to Freedom Page 9 d notre Dame beats Virginia in Kickoff classic sports Page 21 the St is and ripes authorized unofficial publication Forth to . A it i 0 forces Good Tornina vol.48,no. 138 saturday. September 2. 198 25 of and Sumter d 8693 a gis headed for . To Send up to ? 00 advisers Ambia by the Washington Post Washington As Many As 100 . Military personnel will be sent to Colombia Over the next tour months to help train police and military units in that country s Battle against the drug cartels the defens department said thursday. Administration officials also confirmed drug enforcement administration agents working with police forces in Peru will resume paramilitary strikes in the next few Days against drug traffickers in the country s coca growing upper Hua Llaga Valley. . Officials said the Valley is effective by controlled by the far leftist san Duro Luminoso shining path guerrillas. The two developments highlighted the escalating . Role in the latin drug conflict. Although Whitehouse officials announced a $69 million emergency military Aid package including military advisers for Colombia last week. Pentagon officials thursday Dis closed for the first time the deployment of a Large contingent of . Support personnel under the super vision of the Southern come in Panama. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said some where Between 50 to 100 . Personnel will be Dis patched to Colombia perhaps starting sunday when two already scheduled c-130 cargo aircraft carry Mili tary equipment to Colombia. The . Forces will include munitions specialists communications officials computer operators Supply specialists logistics personnel and other support personnel but they May not All necessarily be there at any one Williams said. The Aid package including helicopters fixed Wing air Craft boats Small arms and other equipment was approved by president Bush last week after individuals believed to be speaking for the Medellin cocaine Cartel declared what they called total War against the colombian govern ment in addition administration officials have confirmed Bush will announce an additional $250 million in military and economic Aid for Colombia Peru and Bolivia As part of a major new drug policy drafted by National drug control director William j. Bennett. The president is expected to make these announce ments in a speech to be broadcast nationwide tuesday. Pentagon officials said numerous details about Thea id package had to be worked out. Including where the . Personnel will be based. Who will protect the personnel. Which divisions will provide the personnel. Officials also said the Aid package is being revised see Colombia on Back Page . Military personnel will Aid training in Colombia. Blast hits Medellin paint factory Bogota Colombia not Colombia s drug traffickers continued their War against the country s establishment thursday with a powerful bomb in a paint factory in Medellin the drug lords main base of operations. At least four people were reported wounded in the explosion which caused extensive damage police said. Several buildings near the factory were damaged and about 30 cars were destroyed the police said. Israel ordered the families of about 40 israelis who live in Colombia to leave the country apparently out of fear of retaliation against israelis because of the reports an israeli mercenary May have trained colombian drug dealers. On wednesday the United slates announced that dependents of american diplomats were being ordered out. A spokesman for a National Security organization said i so american student leu in the last two Days. Since president Virgilio Barco declared War on the drug traffickers two weeks ago after the assassination of a leading presidential candidate Colombia s six leftist guerrilla groups have been quiet. But several incidents were reported thursday including the kidnapping of a ministry of Energy and mines official. Colombia s leading newspaper Al Timpo reported two clashes Between see bomb on Back Page is. Marshals escort Jim Bakker from his lawyer s office after he Nas found hallucinating in fetal position. Bake r mental evaluation Charlotte . A Jim Bakker was committed to a mental institution in Handcuffs and leg shackles thursday after a psychiatrist re ported the to evangelist was hallucinating and cowering in a fetal position in his lawyer s office. . District judge Robert Potter suspended Bakker s fraud trial and ordered him to the Fader Corric Vional Institute in Butner for up to 60 my apr psychiatric evaluation to determine a Cut a is competent to stand trial. Pleasea Boom to me a sobbing dishes eled Bakker As led from his lawyer s office by . In n i int Fuyii i Nihil Iii for proc Essing of the commitment old. After the paperwork was Cormac cd Bakker was taken to Butner to spend Hist a right behind bars since the pal scandal broke. inthe Back scat of a marshal s car when Bratchi and marshals helped him walk in a slow shul see Bakker on Back Page
