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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 of the stars and stripes wednesday september 6,1989 2 med in Airport shoot out in Colombia Medellin Colombia a a narcotics Campaign began on aug. 18. Col. Luis Camejo. Commander of a terminal when the shooting Start Man toting an automatic Rifle and Wear so monday the beginning of $65 Lional p0" " for Antioquia province said Only about 20 still were lined up i ing military fatigues opened fire at Pas sengers crowded outside the Airport Ter Minal building in this cocaine trafficking Center monday killing one Man before Security forces shot him to death. Fourteen people some Only 15 feet away were wounded before the assailant was lulled a police official said. Doris Vargas a police spokeswoman in my Dullin. Said the victims were lined up for a Security Check before being Al Lowed to enter the terminal. My Dullin 150 Miles North of the Capi Tal of Bogota is Home to the world s larg est drug cartels and has been subjected to bombings and other violence by narcotics traffickers since the government anti narcotic. Als monday the beginning of $65 million Worth of shipments of emergency . Military Aid continued to arrive in Colombia to help in the crackdown. Civil aviation officials in the North Western City of Montria said a c-123 transport plane of the . State depart ment s International narcotics division was firebombed Early sunday. The . Embassy said monday it could not confirm the bombing but acknowledged the plane was badly dam aged by fire. In my Dullin the attacker who has not been identified pulled up to the terminal Entrance in a Renault car left the motor running stepped out then started firing police said. Col. Lui tonal polices i the gunman began to fire indiscriminately with a g-3 Rifle an automatic weapon manufactured in West Germany. Six Security guards who were frisking passengers and checking hand Luggage at the doorway killed the gunman Vargas said. The assailant wounded three of the Security agents she said. He was Only four to five meters 13 to 16 feet away when he opened lire said Gladys Gil who works at the Airport s pub Lic Telephone area. Someone pushed me Down. That was the last i  Airport workers As Well As passengers were required to line up for the Security Check she said. Gil said hundreds of people were in the Termina started but on t l on the pavement outside the door. The gunman struck at 7 15 a.m., during the morning Rush As passengers crowded in for three flights to Bogota and one to Miami on Colombia s Vianca airline Vargas said. Caracol. A National radio Chain identified the dead passenger As a 27-year-old administrator for pint co the country s largest paint company which is based in my Dullin. The pint co factory was bombed thursday in an attack blamed on drug Deal ers. A business executive who escaped injury said everybody panicked and just threw themselves on the floor including  he said the attacker appeared to be 18 to 20years old. Cuban air crash toll s to 1 50 As bodies recovered from Homes Cuba Sas the jetliner pm official c it said co City up the death toll from air disaster Rose monday to at least 150 s of Al Casl 25 people killed when a cuban led into their Homes were recovered the news Agency Prensa Latina said  a 126 people aboard the Chart Rcd plane most of to Nam italian tourists were tilled in the crash. The sole surviving passenger a reported in serious condition. \ / the chartered Cunan jetliner carrying 115 Passen Gers and 11 Crew members to Mila Otilly. Struck Power lines during a thunderstorm sunday and careened into the boy Cros Neighb orhoo  
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