European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday september 12,1989  join raids on Peru traffickers from Page 1 in moving out of base Camps into so called secure areas american forces would be More vulnerable to attack. They arc under standing orders to shoot Back to defend themselves in such situations officials said. Details of the directive were first reported on sunday in the Washington Post. An administration official defined a secure area As one where government forces maintain control and where there was no physical threat or narcotics threat to those forces. Officials said they doubted that any american advisers had yet been moved into such areas under the directive. There arc now 50 to 100 american advisers in colom Bia involved in anti drug operations one official said adding that there May be a Small number of advisers i Peru under a program run from the . Southern come in Panama. Officials said More advisers might be sent to Colombia. Peru and Bolivia under expanding anti drug operations but denied that the total could reach the hundreds. Administration officials initially said that the directive signed by Bush while he was on vacation in Kenn chunk port. Maine allowed american troops for the first time to take part in patrols but not on direct raids on drug Labo a atones or against drug traffickers. Officials said later that there were no plans for Ameri can troops to engage in patrols. There is no plan for any forces to accompany troops in Peru or Bolivia into combat missions William j. Ben Nett the Federal drug policy director said on the Abc news program this week. However sen. Joseph r. Biden d-dcl., chairman of the Senate judiciary committee said on the same pro Gram. I do not dismiss the notion of using . Troops in certain circumstances in the andean  he added that it May be a Good  the missions against the peruvian drug traffickers took off from the newly fortified and expanded base at Santa Lucia in the heart of the Valley with american piloted helicopters armed with machine guns ferrying units of six peruvian police officers and two . Drug enforcement administration agents on each of the strikes a peruvian official said. The self contained base at Santa Lucia is protected by mine Fields and an underground electronic Security sys tem. Gen. Juan Zaratz director of the peruvian drug police said the increase in . Funding announced by president Bush last week is vital to the new initiative but he emphasized that it will fail unless it is accompanied by eco nomic development Aid. Peru is the world s main source of coca leaves grown by tens of thousands of peasants and partially refined into paste before being shipped to Colombia for processing int cocaine. For years peruvian police focused their efforts on destroying coca Bushes but coca cultivation continued to expand and has reached More than 450,000 acres mainly in the upper Hua Llaga Valley on the Eastern slopes of the Andes. The eradication program alienated the growers who bore the Brunt of the program and increased support forthe shining path guerrilla movement that has formed a tactical Alliance with the traffickers. In february the combined threat from the two group forced Peru to suspend the eradication program and virtually no anti drug operations have taken place in the area since then. The shining path movement has been Able to build up support among the population because of the eradication program. The rebels exploited the Chance to appear As defenders of the people s interests by ambushing patrols and shooting at the helicopters. In the months since the eradication stopped Zaratz who is highly regarded by american drug agents said we have begun noticing a reaction of the people against the shining path because they attract More police and More army and they bring  the colombian offensive against the drug lords including the seizure of dozens of Small planes has dramatically reduced shipments of coca paste forcing the traffickers to build up stockpiles in Peru Zarate said. This is better for me he said. We will hit them with everything so that they lose  while he is pleased at the Prospect of getting More . Aid a fourfold increase to $261 million for Peru Colombia and Bolivia Zaratz said the Campaign also must provide an alternative livelihood for the coca growers. That Means offering alternative crop possibilities infrastructure and agro Industrial development he said. Peruvian politicians and analysts have made the same Point in reaction to the Bush program emphasizing the danger of strengthening the hand of the rebels by displacing those in the drug Trade without simultaneously offer ing them other options. Gustavo Garriti a peruvian journalist specializing in the subject of drugs said in an article in the july Issue of the Atlantic monthly that cocaine has revolutionized the economics of the andean countries generating up to $ 1.5 billion in income for Peru alone. He said that the mistake in the drug War has been to try to quell what is fundamentally an economic revolution by Means of punitive Law  Iran speaker attacks . Lawmakers Nicosia Cyprus a Iran s parliamentary Leader sunday condemned nearly 190 . Congressmen for endorsing iranian resistance groups and declared their moves will unleash unspecified  official Tehran radio quoted speaker Mahdi Karrumi As saying that ". Lead ers will take the wish of overthrowing the islamic Republic to their  in a letter to Secretary of state Jamesa. Baker Iii 121 democrats and 65 re publicans warned the Bush administration against continuing to speculate and Hope for the miraculous emergence of moderates from within the present ruling clique in Iran. Instead the congressmen asked the administration to work with its allies to impose an arms and economic Boycott on Iran and to actively support iranian Resis Tance groups. Their request came after president Bush adopted a conciliatory tone toward the new iranian government that took Power in Iran following the june death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Yeltsin says possibility of o coup in soviet Union pretty unrealistic9 by the los Angeles times new York soviet communist party populist Boris Yeltsin said sunday the Prospect of a coup in his country was pretty  and he said predictions of civil War growing out of violence among the res Tive soviet minorities were a scarecrow designed to frighten people. Related Story Page 2. Yeltsin warned however Ordinary soviet citizens Are losing Hope in per Stroika s program of economic reforms and its author soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev. I spent 2 i years in the politburo Andi know How that operates and i do not think the idea of a coup is Likely at  the 58-year-old outspoken politician told his first formal news conference during his first visit to the United states. Yeltsin said Gorbachev did not fore see massive unrest among nationalities when perestroika was introduced. The problem is perestroika was never thought through in a Complex Way before it was introduced he said. Yeltsin said he was worried Gorbachev s authority and popularity would decline. It is up to everybody in the country to do what has to be done to be sure we get better results from the process of per Stroika and people have More  Yeltsin arrived saturday in the United slates on a private visit which includes a Cross country lecture tour and meeting with congressional business and foundation leaders. The husky Gray haired Mem Ber of the supreme soviet immediately be came a Media celebrity mobbed by reporters and wooed by to producers. On lbs television s face the nation sunday he reiterated his theme that Gorbachev s popularity was ebbing and that soviet society was in crisis. He said however there there was no imme Diate danger of Gorbachev losing his Kremlin leadership. We Are in an economic and financial and social crisis. The party As Well the whole of society is in crisis he said. We have to Stop being so dogmatic As we were  Yeltsin Hopes to meet with president Bush during a visit to Washington later in the week. I have something to Tell him Yeltsin said refusing to elaborate. He added however that if he met with Bush among the topics he would discuss would be How the soviet Union should be encouraged to promote direct investment by american businessmen. I think a joint flight to Mars would be an area of joint cooperation he added. Asked whether he favored a Summit meeting next year Between the two Lead ers Yeltsin said he hoped a Summit would take place. Yeltsin spent his first full Day in the United states As a tourist in new York staring at buildings on fifth Avenue vis iting a korean fruit seller and circling the statue of Liberty twice in a helicopter. Yeltsin said 47 million soviet citizens live below the poverty inc. There arc measures that could be taken to improve the situation but we need a person who is More decisive than Gorbachev he continued. Refugees from Page 1 emotion tried to smile As tears rolled Down his Cheeks and could t speak. Dozens of people who had taken taxis from Buda pest waited to Cross into Austria on foot. A group of youths held up a sign saying give it up Erich refer ring to East German communist Leader Erich Honcock or. Once on the austrian Side of the massive Border Barrier Many East germans jumped from their cars and danced with Joy. In a Small tent on the austrian Side red Cross workers handed out steaming cups of Tea crackers and maps showing the quickest Way to the West German Border to anyone who asked. Crowds of austrians gathered to Welcome the Emi Grecs cheering and clapping As each car passed. A woman stood at the Road Side holding up a sign offer ing free Beds for a refugee family with children. A statement sunday by the official hungarian news Agency Mai said Hungary has decided to make it possible for the East German citizens staying in Hun Gary and refusing to return Home to leave to any coun try which is prepared to let them through or receive  Interior minister Istvan Horvath instructed the police and Border guards to let East German citizens leave Hungary with their East German travel documents at any Border Point. The hungarian foreign minister Gyula Horn suggested on hungarian to that tens of thousands of other East germans now vacationing in Hungary also May choose to leave for the West along with those in the refugee Camps. To make the exodus possible he said Hungary decided to suspend a 1969 agreement with East Ger Many a Warsaw pact ally saying Hungary should not take into account West Germany s claim to East Ger mans. There arc about 60,000 East germans now in Hun Gary Horn said referring to thousands who have not xer cd with the West German embassy in Budapest be and arc formally in Hungary As vacationers. I cannot Tell you How Long it will last but it surely won t be just for an hour Horn said when asked How Long the refugees would be allowed to leave simply by showing their East German passports to hungarian Border guards. Austrian television said a special hungarian train carrying Only East German refugees had left from a Camp in southwestern Hungary for the Border late Sun Day and four More trains would follow. In Frankfurt West Germany Federal railways spokesman Klaus Vollmer said that his austrian counterparts moved so railway cars with room for 90 peo ple in each to Border Points with Hungary. Also 40 West German Railroad cars were moved to Passau and Frei Lassing two bavarian cities near the austrian Border and 70 austrian buses were standing by Vollmer said. West Germany which offers East germans Auto Matic citizenship and help getting settled has set up refugee Camps in Bavaria. This is a humanitarian decision and an act of euro Pean Solidarity. I am deeply thankful to the hungarian government Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Ger Many said in Bonn