European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes o drug slayings of police up sharply in  Page 5 o Agency halted Auto probes Nader group claims Page 6 o Florida state Ltd upset in College football Page 21 d tension rising in soviet area Page 28 authorized unofficial pubucat1on for the us armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 140 monday. September 4, 1989 of i a ii d 8693 a . Aid arrives in Colombia anti drug official ousted for cocaine link Bogota Colombia a the United slates on sunday began shipping a $65 million package of Mili tary aircraft and weapons to help Colombia tight its War against powerful cocaine empires. Also sunday. President Virigilio Barco tired the chief of the anti drug Effort in my Dullin. The headquarter for Many of Colombia s drug traffickers. An official source said he was ousted for having dealings with cocaine lords. Two . C-130 cargo planes arrived in the capital sunday along with other equipment Washington is sending to Colombia. . Ambassador Thomas Mcnamara. At a Bogota military air base where the transports landed said the big jets Are in excellent condition and should serve the colombian armed forces for Many  the commander of Colombia s air Force. Gen. Al Fonso Amaya Maldonado. Said the c-l30s will be used in the fight in which we Are engaged. To re establish  the High tailed c-l30s can take off and land on 3.00n-Fooi runways even those with no paving and presumably could be used in raids on Remote coca Leaf plantations and Clandestine cocaine refining laboratories. By contrast passenger jets such As 747s and dc-10s need runways of 9,000-10,000 feet. Also on their Way to this South american country according to the Pentagon were five us in transport helicopters and eight a-37 reconnaissance jets. The a 37s can he outfitted with machine guns and lockets. The United states also has promised Colombia rifles pistols machine guns rockets and grenades even bulletproof vests for colombian officials and judges who prosecute drug traffickers. The government gave no reason for removing police col. Antonio Sanchez As chief of a special 4,000-Mcm bar anti drug unit in Medellin. An official at National police Headquarters in Bogota said Sanchez was ousted see Colombia on Back Page West German motorists wander amid a tangle of dam aged cars after being caught in a Chain reaction pileup collision course near Munich Imol Ting us u Hicls. It occurred on the Nornberg Munich Hight a and left 26 people injured sunday. The collisions blamed on Drivers Ravelin Loo fast in a heat rainstorm created a 12-Milc-Long traffic Jam. 2-Day-old Panda cub Dies of infection Washington up1 the cub born to giant Panda Ling Ling died Early sunday morning Over whelmed by an infection it got from its Mother a National zoo spokesman said. The spokesman Mike Morgan said the 3-Ouncc cub died at i . He said the infection it contracted from its Mother simply overwhelmed it and it  Ling Ling s four other cubs have All died during or soon after birth. Zoo officials removed the cub from its Mother when the infection was discovered soon after its birth Fri Day. Panda experts at the zoo had anaesthetized Ling Ling Friday afternoon to give the tiny cub an injection in a risky Effort to boost the cub s immune system but discovered that an infection already was present. The procedure had never been tried on endangered giant pandas but was decided on in an Effort to thwart a repeat of 1987, when the aging Ling Ling s longest surviving cub died of an infection four Days after birth. Following the injection the White cub about the size of a Slick of butter was kept in an incubator receiving oxygen and nutrition intravenously. Meanwhile Ling Ling although not Back to her nor Mal self was up walking around and eating a Little Morgan said saturday. Ling Ling 20, and Hsing Hsing 19, arc the Only giant pandas on permanent exhibit in the United Stales and the oldest living pair in Captivity outside of China. Giant pandas have been artificially bred successfully in Captivity in zoos in Madrid Tokyo and Mexico City but Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing arc the Only Panda pair Breeding naturally Stevens said. Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing were gifts to the United states from China in 1972. Animal experts have said Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing Are reaching the end of their reproductive years and Stevens said Ling Ling is the oldest known Panda to give birth 10 a live cub. Ling Ling s first cub died of prenatal pneumonia three hours after birth on july 21, 1983. A second pregnancy ended in Stillbirth in 1984. And in 1987, Ling Ling had wins the smaller one dying at birth from Lack of oxygen and the second surviving four Days before dying suddenly of what later was found to have been an infection