European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes a Trade deficit reached $10.5 billion in november Page 2 a classified ads Magazine a a visit to Malta in the med stripes Magazine a Noriega trial Date set for week of March 5 Back Page the Sim tripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 277 Friday january 19, 1990 w a 25 of it by and sunday d 8693 a Bogota Colombia apr the Medellin cocaine Cartel said wednesday the government has won the War on drugs and promised to halt its terror Campaign and Stop dealing drugs in Exchange Tor a Pardon. The Cartel released two Kidnap victims to Back up its offer which is similar to previous proposals that the government has rejected. The difference in the cartels defeat. Set Page 6. Also a colombian Broth and sister were flown to North Caroli e Cartel makes Lief wout Cheshut Down Fly pardoned a to face charges of running trafficking ring. 13 the number of to the United bull1 Ince president Virgilio launched the crackdown in August. Barco president Bush and the leaders of the cocaine producing countries of Peru and Bolivia have joined forces to fight drug traffickers. They arc expected to sign an Accord to that effect at a drug Summit in Cartagena Colombia next month. Patricia echavarri37, a a As kidnapped dec. 16 in Medellin daughter carried the 11-Point Nique when the two were freed we docs Day in Medellin. The communique like others from the traffickers was signed by the extraditable the name of the Medellin cartels armed Wing. Quot we accept the Triumph of the state a said the communique. A thus we will Lay Down our arms and abandon our objectives for the Benefit of the highest interests of the fatherland. Submit to the existing Legal Stab of obtaining from the society respect for our rights and our in my amur families and that has been the traffickers Way in see Cartel on Back Page soviet troops get of to shoot in Azerbaijan Moscow not a soviet troops Given official permission to fire their weapons if necessary tried to impose martial Law in Azerbaijan thursday As the country began to debate the causes of a blood Bath that seemed both unthinkable and inevitable. Sketchy initial reports from the combat zone said army and Interior ministry troops were being hampered by roadblocks in the Hilly Countryside of the Southern soviet Republic. The clashes Between azerbaijanis and armenians have claimed More than 60 lives most of them armenians killed by mobs in Baku the Caspian sea port capital of Azerbaijan just North of the soviet Union s Border with Iran. Authorities in Moscow underscored their determination to Stop the fighting by announcing wednesday night that army. Interior ministry and Kab troops had been cleared to shoot to defend themselves or to protect official arms caches. The announcement on television said troops had employed Quot maximum restraint a but Quot the situation has become Azerbaijan has been closed to foreign reporters since the first signs of unrest Early this month and the foreign ministry wednesday also banned travel to the neighbouring Republic of Armenia where angry citizens were reported preparing for civil War. But refugees reaching Moscow and official press accounts lot a of armenians burned stabbed and beaten to death and thrown from windows in Baku. Officials provided few details of How the estimated 17,000 troops now in Azerbaijan were being deployed under a sweeping emergency decree imposed monday night. But they appeared to have two main tasks to subdue and disarm warring gangs in the largely Rural West a Patchwork of feuding armenian and azerbaijani settlements and to halt House to House attacks on the armenian minority in Baku. Officials conceded that pacifying Baku probably Means evacuating the last remnants of an armenian minority that before the conflict flared two years ago numbered 220,000 in a population of 1.7 million. A majority of the armenians left the City before the latest disturbances exchanging their apartments for quarters in Armenia Russia or other republics. Azerbaijanis in the town of by Nadzha March in the wednesday funeral procession of a violence victim. The soviet news Agency Tass said wednesday night that 7,000 armenians had been evacuated by ferryboat Navy vessels and air planes since violence broke out Over the weekend. The evacuees of recent Days have abandoned everything with Little Hope of com see soviet on Back . Going ahead with 401 St move Washington apr the Bush administration is moving Forward with plans to relocate the 401st tac fighter Wing from Spain to Italy despite congressional Calls for reducing Active forces overseas a lawmaker said wednesday. Rep. Patricia Schmo Cdr d-colo., a senior member of the House armed services committee said she received a letter from defense Secretary Dick Cheney indicating that he is going full Speed ahead on Croton the j planned site in Italy for j the tactical Wing. A the average person seeing everyone pulling out. Will be Schroeder a a _. A. A longtime opponent of Schroeder relocating the tactical Wing said in a Telephone interview. A this in t even a War fighting in january 1988, the United slates accepted Spain s demands that the air Force withdraw the Wing of 72 f-16 fighter bombers from the joint air base at Torrejon Cardoz 15 Miles Northeast of Madrid. Italy agreed to provide a new Home for the jets approximately 3,600 troops and 600 civilians at Croton in Southern Italy about 200 Miles South of Naples. The Pentagon has estimated the total Cost of Croton at $885 million. Under the administration plan the United states would pay $470 million or 55 percent of the Cost with nato picking up the remainder. Historically the United states picks up 28 percent of the costs of such base construction under the nato infrastructure program. House and Senate negotiators who bad agreed on differing numbers for the . Cost compromised in the fiscal 1990 defense Bill and capped expenditures at $360 million limiting . Payments to 40 percent and forcing the administration to renegotiate with nato on the remaining Cost. That provision was included in the defense Bill that president Bush signed into Law late last Pitcher Dave Stewart signs record annual contract a Page j 7
