European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday. October 1,1989 end drug trafficker havens colombian president asks United nations a colombian president Virgilio Barco said Friday there must be no Safe havens for drug traffickers and urged All nations to sign a treaty allowing the seizure of the traffickers Bank accounts and property. So far. Only the Bahamas has signed the Vienna convention on narcotics trafficking under which signatory nations would also cooperate to seize smuggling ships and planes in transit. We. A Community of nations find ourselves under assault from an International criminal Enterprise that respects none of our norms of sovereignty frontiers or  Barco said in remarks prepared for delivery to the general Assembly. Barco has declared War on the colombian cocaine lords who have set off More than 100 bombs in Colombia and killed Many people. The drug traffickers also have proposed peace talks with the government which they regard As their equal. I Clicc bomb squad vans roamed the grounds of the . Headquarters. An ambulance was parked outside the general Assembly. Police sharpshooters perched on the roof of the Dag Hammarskjold Library. "1 am Here to Lay out the Stark realities of this War against drug  Barco said in his speech. In Colombia the casualties of our struggle have been mounting for some time. A month ago we suffered the tragic assassination of one of our finest National leaders Luis Carlos  a popular presiden tial candidate. But our War on drugs has been taking its toll for years he added. We have lost 12 supreme court justices our attorney general and minister of Justice. We have lost members of Congress and mayors. Scores of journalists thousands of soldiers and police men and Lens of thousands of colombian citizens who were committed to the cause of democracy he said. Drug users create the demand for narcotics which leads to the killing of people in Colombia and other nations where drugs Are grown processed and shipped Barco said. No doubt somebody a few blocks from this Gener Al Assembly Hall in one of this City s fashionable neighbourhoods taking cocaine in the civilized Calm of his living room would balk at this description. Yet. As surely As if he pulled the trigger he is the Slayer of those colombian judges and policemen who have paid with their lives for trying to uphold the Law. Now there must he no Safe havens for the Narco terrorists Barco said. In this War. The time has come for the Community of nations to choose  All countries must sign the Vienna convention on narcotics trafficking Barco said. The agreement binds nations to outlaw drugs within their Borders and close banking loopholes such As offshore accounts and it makes All drug criminals extraditable. Barco pledged to introduce the Vienna convention to Colombia s Congress for ratification upon his return to Bogota. S. African police Tell picnickers to leave Whites Only Beach Cape town South Africa a police drove vans onto the Whites Only strand Beach saturday and told mixed race and Black families with picnic baskets they were violating the Law. The families had marched from a Church in the Seaside town of strand As part of a nationwide Campaign of Defiance of Laws enforcing apartheid. South Africa s system of racial segregation. Cape town newspapers had quoted police saturday morning As saying they would not interfere with the picnic protest if no violence occurred. There was no explanation for their decision to act against the protest. A similar protest was called for beaches in port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape province but organizers there received a magistrate s permission for Black families to go onto White beaches. In Cape town about 50 people set out from St. An Drew s anglican Church and marched through the Small town toward the Beach. A police car followed them and officers used a Loudspeaker to Tell them to turn Back. The marchers ignored the order jumped Over a Small Wall and with children shrieking in Delight ran onto the Beach most were wearing yellow peaked Caps with the slogan free the beaches and to shirts saying All god s beaches arc for All god s  the crowd swelled to 300 people. Some people carrying flags of the outlawed african National Congress and other organizations waded into the Atlantic. After about 20 minutes police drove vans onto the Sand and told the members of the group they had three minutes to leave because their presence on the Beach violated the internal Security act. The Rev. Allan Loesak mixed race president of the world Alliance of reformed churches arrived and beckoned the crowd to follow him to another Beach area past the police vehicles. But the police moved on and stopped them again arresting several photographers and members of television  undercover police officers in Brach car told journalists to leave the area. Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu Center and others defy apartheid at the strand Beach saturday. World today at least 9 dead in fire at Taiwan radar station Taipei. Taiwan a at least nine service men died and several others were injured in a Ore at a military radar station that raged Tor six hours police reported Friday. Air Force officials believe an electrical Short circuit May have caused the fire which began thursday night. Local newspapers said Many servicemen were hospitalized with Burns. . Seeks food donors for Northern Ethiopia Nairobi. Kenya a the United nations appealed to International donors Friday Abr emergency food to Avert starvation by 1.7 million people in drought stricken and War torn Northern Ethiopia. The world food program a Branch of the United nations said in a statement issued in Nairobi that 221,000 tons of food would be needed for 1.5 million people in Ethiopia s northernmost Eritrea province. An additional 21,000 tons would be needed to feed an estimated 200,000 people fleeing to Eri trea from neighbouring Tigre. Which is controlled by the rebel tight people s liberation front Fol lowing a major offensive Early this year. The Wop statement said the Relief being sought is Only for residents of the province in Contact with Relief agencies and did not include people in inaccessible areas. 3 injured during dashes of prison guards police Paris a clashes Between striking Pris on guards and riot police left at least three peo ple injured in a work dispute that has affected one third of France s prisons since the beginning of the week the Justice ministry said  at the fresnel prison cast of Paris battled with the officers thursday night when the police tried to escort buses bringing new arrivals to the prison through barriers erected by the strikers. Three police officers and no strikers were injured in the clash said a Justice ministry official. However a spokesman for the Union rep resenting the strikers said 10 guards were Hurt inthe fracas with three requiring hospitalization. The guards paid Between $1,100 and $1,400 per month arc demanding an increase of the $47 in monthly overtime pay the government offered them in a contract last year. Swede makes his Choice turns Down bicycle test Stockholm Sweden Dpi a a vicar old swede with a heart disorder has made his Choice whether to lose his disablement pension or take a bicycle test his doctor says May kill him swedish daily  reported Friday. The regional social insurance office in Orebro South Central Sweden has demanded that Johannes Pind 60, undergo a a bicycle test to prove his claim for Early retirement. Pind has refused. Pind cites his doctor s report which says his heart is so weak he May die if he s forced to take the bicycle  the social insurance office s medical specialist Vcrne Rosl has demanded that Pind s heart disorder be objectively verified on a Bicy  can keep their Money. I will not do the test. I won t have much use for an Early retire ment pension if i drop dead on the bicycle Pind was reported As saying. Antarctic Oil spill May buoy Case for mining ban Paris a the disclosure of a i Csc Oil spill at a . Station at the South pole seems sure 19 fuel debate at an International meeting Here next month on Oil exploration and mining in Antarctica and May strengthen the hand of mining opponents an official in Paris said Friday. The National science foundation in Washington reported thursday that a Leaky pipe spilled 44,000 Gallons of diesel fuel onto the Frozen landscape around the United Stales Amundsen Scott South pole station on aug. 21. No Public announcement was made at the time although the leak was reported to the . Slate department a foundation official said. News of the incident comes 10 Days before an International conference in Paris that will pit those favouring con trolled mining in Antarctica against other nations wanting a total ban. The United Stales Britain Japan and new zealand favor tightly regu lated mining saying this is the Best Way to protect Antarctica s fragile environment. Australia France and a growing list of other nations favor comprehensive environmental Protection measures that for bid mining. The latest Accident adds to our Case said an australian Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity. It s an example of How easily accidents can  delegates from 33 nations will meet in Paris oct. 9 to review the 1959 treaty regulating activity in Antarctica and to consider recent developments