European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes big drug raid Renews Calls for Aid to . Los Angeles a the world s biggest cocaine bust prompted renewed Calls for More anti drug Aid to the los Angeles area which the Region s top Federal narcotics agent called the cocaine capital of the United  the 20 tons of cocaine was Worth $2 billion whole Sale and could have brought up to $20 billion on the Street if heavily Diu cd and sold in Smo Kably rocks authorities said Friday. That would be More than double the $9.4 billion the Senate approved last week to fight the War on drugs next year and enough dope to provide the 3 million Resi dents of los Angeles a Rock a Day for three months. Authorities speculated that the huge size of the haul could indicate that Colombia s crackdown on drug lords May have forced them to Combine their distribution net works. The raid thursday night at a warehouse in a quiet Light Industrial area 25 Miles Northwest of downtown also yielded at least three arrests extensive records of dealers and at least $ 10 million in Cash stuffed in boxes. In addition to the three men arrested in los Angeles the Las vegas Sun reported saturday that three others were arrested by Dea agents at an expensive Las vegas hotel Friday in connection with the drug seizure. The men one of them a former mexican customs official were arrested for investigation of importation and distribution of narcotics the newspaper said. Dea night duty officers in los Angeles and washing Ion said they could not comment on the report and la vegas police said they had no information about any additional arrests. I be been on this Job for 25 years and i be never seen so much dope in one place. I could t believe it said sunday. October 1,1989 probes work Friday near boxes containing 20 ions of cocaine seized at a warehouse in the los Angeles area. John m. Zinc tar the Dea s special agent in charge for los Angeles. This narcotics seizure of the largest amount of cocaine in the world should put to rest any further speculation about whether or not los Angeles has in fact become the cocaine capital of the United states Zinter said. Local officials renewed their Call for More Federal drug agents. The los Angeles Dea office has 110 agents Miami and new York have More than 300 each. Hey Washington listen to us we need your help police chief Daryl Gates said. We want you to sen double the number of Dea agents out Here. We need pulitzer prize winning composer Virgil Thomson Dies in new York new York a Virgil Thomson who won a pulitzer prize in 1949, died saturday after a Long ill Ness. He was 92. Thomson who also worked As a music critic in the 1940s and 50s. Died in his sleep about 5 . In room at Manhattan s Chelsea hotel where he had lived almost 50 years said his Secretary. Jay Sullivan. Thomson had a Long career As a composer of operas ballets orchestral and choral works As Well As film scores and incidental music for plays by authors from Shakespeare to Truman capote. He won the pulitzer prize for music in 1949 for his Virgil Thomson score to the documentary film Louisiana Story the Only time the pulitzer has been awarded for a movie score. In 1988, Thomson was one of 12 recipients of the National medal of arts an award created by Congress four years earlier at the suggestion of then president Reagan. He worked with several different styles deriving inspiration from such sources As Baptist hymns and 19th-Century popular music. Thomson born in Kansas City mo., Learned to play piano at age 5. He worked As a Church organist As a teen Ager. In 1922, he graduated from Harvard University and moved to Paris where he studied with famed music teacher Nadia Boulanger and met the iconoclastic composer Erik Static who was a great influence on him. While in Paris he met Gertrude Stein and wrote one of his most famous works the opera four saints in three  with her As librettist in 1928. It premiered in Hartford conn., in 1934. They also collaborated on the Mother of us All an opera about Susan b. Anthony that received its first performance in new York in 1947. He settled in new York in 1940 and joined the staff of the Tribune later the Herald Tribune where he was music critic until 1954. His newspaper pieces described As stylish Bright and deliberately provocative were collected into four anthologies. In 1982, he won a National Book critics Circle award for a Virgil Thomson  Thomson s latest Book music with words is to be released oct. 18 by Yale University press. Sullivan described it As a How to Book for composers people who arc interested in setting words to music or music to  Thomson who never married is survived by a Niece Betty Stouffer of Longwood Fla. He will be buried in a family plot in Slater mo., Sullivan said. A memorial service is planned at the Cathedral Oft. John the divine in Manhattan on nov. 25, what would have been Thomson s 93rd birthday. More customs. And we need More Border  mayor Tom Bradley said los Angeles has beefed up City s police Force to its highest level and still needs help. The 40,000-Pound seizure packed in cardboard boxes easily topped the previous . Record of about 8,700 pounds in fort Laud Crdal Fla., in 1987. It also surpassed the earlier world record a 12-ton seizure in Colombia. The three men arrested were to be arraigned  Day on drug charges. They were not identified. Loch Ridge said that although they claimed to be mexican their accents were South american. Loch Ridge said More arrests Are expected. Army Cuc Aracha named toughest Orlando Fla. Up a cockroach Fromin undisclosed army installation in Connecticut outlasted Roaches from four Florida cities an the . House of representatives on Friday to capture the toughest cockroach  bugs were bombarded for hours with four different pesticides at a training seminar for the Florida pest control association in a Light hearted illustration of How bugs arc fighting human attempts to control them with chemicals. What s been happening is people from All Over the country arc calling to say they re being held hostage in their kitchens and bedrooms at night by cockroaches that arc resistant to pesticides said an expert on Urban pests Phil  contest was sponsored by the . Depart ment of agriculture and the University of Florida Home of major cockroach research by Koehlor and other  wimp Cost Roach came from Orlando but that was expected because in the 36 years since it discovery the species has never been exposed to chemicals. Instead generations of the Bug have been kept Pristine and sold for research. The next easiest to kill was the Bug from the Halls of Congress. Rdc As it s known actually was found in Washington six years ago. Roaches fro Daytona Beach and Jacksonville lasted about the same amount of time. A Gainesville Bug was run Ner up to the Connecticut Roach. Although their origins were different each in sect in the contest was of the German cockroach variety the Critter that is found in 95 percent of american Homes infested with cockroaches. Two chemicals bin Diocar and malathion had Little effect. Two of the most widely used chemicals Chlop Trifos and  Man aged to wipe out All entries. But in one Case it took More than five hours for the Connecticu Roach to succumb. The country s Hope on the cockroach front probably lies in research of the Creepy crawlies. Perhaps a Way can be found to Block the enzymes that Roaches use to break Down pesticides. Or maybe a new killer chemical will be devel oped Koehlor said. Officials would not say where in Connecticu the winning Roach has infested. As Koehler put it it s a military