European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 281 the stars and stripes monday. September 11,1939 Colombia seizes More properties Wug re ated terror attacks continue Bogota Colombia a the army has Sci cd More properties believed to belong 19 Colum bids fugitive drug Kingpins including swimming pools cat Lac and fighting Cocks it was reported sunday while Tyror attacks continued in the cocaine can tar of my Dullin. The Bogota newspaper d esp Ecuador which drug terrorists born cd sept. 2, reported details of raids by the 14tharmy brigade on 42 ranches covering 17,500 acres in Central Colombia s co Caine processing one. The country s two Moil wanted drug Bosses Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rod Briguc. Gacha. Said to a top leaders of the Medellin cocaine Cartel arc Amon the presumed owners Brig. Gen. Carlos Julio Gil told the news Piper. President Virgilio Barco assumed emergency Powers Ana ordered seizures of suspect Bank accounts and property thought to be tied to Fie drug Trade Fol lowing last month s Assisi nation of Lead ing presidential candidate in. Luis car los Galan an outspoken j foe of drug cartels. The armed forces and life police have made Public numerous Gojii Scatch documents showing the purported multinational holdings Worth millions of dollars of Colombia s most notorious drug Barons All currently in hiding drug terrorists have retaliated with in Cassant attacks on government and other institutions. Late saturday and Early sunday i Medellin Colombia s f second biggest City a dynamite bomb dam aged a liquor factory and hooded assailants set a City garbage truck on fire police said. Medel Lin authorities said Trie also defused bomb at a Branch of the Caja agrarian a government run farm savings Bank and a recent target of terror isl a saturday army rain in puerto Boya Ca 95 Miles North of Bogota in the Noto rious Magdalena Mudio cocaine lab zone found a ranch i Fence posts marked Greg pres Mab for Gonzalo Rodriguz. Gacha Al esp chador reported. Colombia has offered $250,000 for information arrest of Escobar or re who also head the unite a Reward of Cading to the Gucz Gacha states list of tradition on colombians wanted for drug trafficking charges., Colombia supplies 801 percent of the cocaine reaching the United states. At a nearby ranch which colombian authorities say May have been used for paramilitary training for the Medellin Cartel s so called hit squads the army found a cockfighting ring with electric clocks and betting paraphernalia and a Corral for raising the fighting Birds Al esp Ecuador reported. / the newspaper  14th brigade s list of property con placated in the past week in the Magdalena Mudio including ranches registered to Escobar and Rodriguez Gacha included 600 head of Atlle 200 exotic Tropf Tal Birds 80 fight ing Cocks olympic is swimming pools show horses Pudig Rcd dogs electronic alarm systems and i Greg branding  saturday the colombian press citing inside Milita 1 sources told of army raids in the cd inc lab zone town of pacho 40 Miles Ort cast of Bogota that seized 49 Velides allegedly belong ing to Rodriguez g Cha. Two were bulletproof Mercedes it Lury sedans. The army also port idly found computer floppy i c purporting to show Rodriguez Gacha St ownership of a total of 374 radio equip Ped cars trucks and vans Worth some $ 0  week Barb administration re moved the elected mayors of puerto Boyaca and Paclo and replaced them with military officers. But the actions taken under emergency Powers were re versed hours later following complaint that they violated the colombian Constitution. News briefs 151 on Rorty sought after Vienna Austria searching for 151 Passyn Manian ship collided Situ boat in the Danube Sank the official Ager pc the Accident of Curry lion he said. 4 soldiers die 4 injured in Honduras copter crash Tegucigalpa Honduras a a Bolt of Light Ning downed a helicopter during  Mili tary Maneu vers killing four honduran soldiers an injuring four the government said saturday. Military sources said the Accident occurred Friday night during a heavy thunderstorm near the Small Vil Lage of san Antonio de Masada 180 Miles Northeast of Tegucigalpa. The source also said that the honduran air Force Bell chopper was returning to the air base Atman Pedro Sula 120 Miles North of Tegucigalpa. The victims were identified As it. Col. Daniel Arturo Tabora Talbot it. Col. Wilfredo Mendoza Garay capt. Luis Felipe Reyes and it. Nelson  military said that three soldiers and the Pilot were hospitalized in stable condition on saturday. Military from Page 1 Crous situations in third world coun tries where they can be shot at or accused of unwarranted interference. In Peru the potential hazards to . Soldiers arc aggravated by the pics Csc of shining path guerrillas who have made the upper Wallaga their principal staging area. The andean program was described by administration officials several weeks ago As a Keystone of the president s drug control program and potentially one of its costliest elements. About $261 Mil lion in . Military and Law enforce ment Aid More than twice the current level will immediately be offered to the three andean nations hopefully prompting them into tougher actions against drug traffickers operating within their Borders. Over the next five years the . In vestment in the Region could become far greater. To the extent that each of the three nations makes Progress in at tacking the traffickers they will be offered Large amounts of economic assist Ance to Cushion them from social an economic disruptions. The Bush plan envisions As much As $2 billion in total a Dover the next five years. Few specifics about the program including the number of . Military personnel who will participate and where they will be deployed have been Dis closed. Those details will be spelled Outin an implementation plan expected to be completed within the next two wee Sand Are being coordinated by the office of National drug policy director Williamj. Bennett an administration official said. However the outlines of the program were embodied in the directive a document described by officials As a follow up to an earlier directive on drugs signed by former president Reagan in april1986. That document declared the flow of illegal drugs into the country As a National Security threat. Administration and congressional sources say the new directive has two parts. One is a general Section that Call for enhanced involvement by the Penta gon and . Intelligence agencies in the drug Effort. Although there arc few specifics in the document the implementation plan forthe intelligence agencies is expected to include expanded use of . Spy satellites to locate coca growing laboratories electronic intercepts to identify drug smuggling planes entering the country and other efforts to help Monitor the communications of major drug Cartel  second and somewhat More de tailed portion of the plan lays out the andean initiative. That Section Calls for $90.2 million in Aid for Colombia $97.5million for Bolivia and $73.4 million for  of this Aid about $141 million will come in the form of military equip ment such As helicopters patrol boats and ammunition. Also included is $13.5million in intelligence Aid radar Elco tronic sensors communications gear an computers to store information about the traffickers. The andean portion of the directive also includes language that loosens the rules for . Troops in the Region sources said. For the last two years a rotating team of about 12 military personnel from the . Southern come in Panama has been based in Bolivia Schaparo Region to help train that coun try s anti narcotics police known As the  existing rules those troops have been prohibited from accompany ing the leopards on  directive relaxes those rules per mitting the . Military to accompany troops on routine patrols but not on direct raids or attacks on drug labs or trafficker hideouts one official said. In Addi Tion for the first time the directive would permit the deployment of . Troops in secure areas of the upper Wallaga Valley including a newly Forti fied base at Santa Lucia that is used Ashe staging ground for joint raids by peruvian police and a Small team of Dea  internal debates Over strategy Dea and some state department officials have argued strongly against the deployment of any . Troops in Peru on the grounds that it would play into the hands of shining path rebels by offering them american targets. But officials said this argument was rejected in part  of an emerging consensus that the existing Dea state department program has been unsuccessful in stopping the flow of coca paste from the Valley