European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a the stars and stripes Friday june 15,1990 Medellin terror Leader killed in police shootout Bogota Colombia apr police have shot and killed the Mastermind of the Medellin cocaine cartels 10-month-old War against the government that has left hundreds of people dead authorities said thursday. The killing occurred wednesday night in an exclusive Medellin suburb and thursday morning a car bomb detonated near a police Post in the suburb killing at least two people and injuring 20, radio network run reported. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. John Jairo Arias Tascon considered the cartels no. 5 Leader was killed in the Al Poblador neighbourhood when police acting on a tip found him and tried to arrest him said Gen. Octavio Vargas operational police director. Vargas said the Cartel suspect died in a shootout while resisting arrest. The killing was the biggest Victory for the governments War on drugs since the slaying of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha the cartels no. 2 Boss in december. Vargas did not say if any police were Hurt in the shootout but he said four More Law officers were killed in Medellin wednesday night. Their deaths bring to 110 the number of Medellin policemen slain so far this year. Arias Tascon 28, led a terrorist organization that killed scores of colombians including an attorney general a state governor a judge and a leading journalist Vargas said in an interview with run. A the served As chief of the armed organization of the Medellin Cartel a Vargas said and was considered theitus never too late a if experience is the Best teacher then 100-year-old Selma Plaut stands at the head of her class. Fellow graduate Sadie Lewis congratulates the senior graduate after they received their degrees from the University of Toronto on monday. Plaut received a Bachelor of arts degree. Cartels fifth most important Leader. He said Arias Tascon was also responsible for two car bomb attacks on colombians secret police chief Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez. The blasts killed at least 70 people but Maza Marquez escaped unharmed. Authorities blame drug traffickers for killing More than 400 colombians since August when the government began a sweeping anti drug crackdown. Vargas said police relied on cooperation from Medellin a residents to locate Arias Tascon. He said the person who provided the crucial information will receive a $200,000 Reward. The terrorist Campaign came in response to a crackdown on the cartels that president Virgilio Barco began in August after a leading presidential candidate was assassinated and the traffickers were blamed for the killing. Since then Barcous administration has extradited 1s drug suspects and confiscated hundreds of properties belonging to the drug lords. On wednesday the government announced it Ould dispatch 570 More police officers and soldiers to the trafficking Center of Medellin where Cartel hired assassins have killed 106 police officers this year. Drug traffickers in april offered a $4,300 Bounty for each officer killed. Medellin colombians second largest City has about 3 million residents. At one time the Medellin Cartel was believed responsible for most of the cocaine that is smuggled into the United  cat gets Lucky break Adelaide Australia apr a Black cat that survived 48 Days without food or water while stowed away on a Container ship has won a last minute reprieve from being killed. The Young female cat sailed Halfway around the world to Australia while locked in a shipping Container with a Mercedes Benz. The roving feline was discovered by customs officials when they unloaded the Auto in Adelaide earlier this week. Quarantine officer John Holmden said records showed that the Container carrying the car was sealed before it left London on april 30, which meant the cat must have been inside for the entire voyage. The cat faced being destroyed if it were found to be a possible rabies earner but Holmden said it had been granted a reprieve. A after considering All the relevant matters quarantine authorities have agreed that the animal will be permitted entry into Australia provided it undergoes a total of nine months quarantine a he said. A we have tentatively named the cat Mercedes and she has already attracted a great Deal of  he said quarantine officials had already received several offers from sponsors who wanted to pay for the cats care while in quarantine. But at $5 a Day the nine months in quarantine will Cost More than $1,000, which will make the Young Black cat one of australians most expensive and Well travelled strays. World today France to spend billions to expand Tiv railway Paris a France plans to in pah i on billion francs $34 billion to expand its record set tag High Speed train network 2,175 Miles officials have said. A transportation minister Michel Delbarre said the expansion plans would require construe Tion of 400 new engines for the a trains a Trandes Vit esses Quot tvs or High Speed train Quot 8 an it Les Delbarre and Jacques Fournier president of the National railway declared at a news conference that the expanded network would make rail a viable alternative to Road and air travel the blueprint requires approval by regional officials Delbarre said. Vintners and others have already protested plans to Lay Tiv tracks through prize vineyards in Southern France. In Ltd tear  plan would begin in 1995, Delbarre said. The proposed expansion would extend the special track further along both routes to Marseille and Rennes. Whole new lines will stretch to Strasbourg Toulouse la Rochelle Calais Bordeaux and elsewhere. A the modernization will Cut travel time from Paris to Nice for example to four hours from seven hours.11 killed when landslide hurls boulders into town Beijing apr eleven people including seven children were killed when a landslide sent huge boulders crashing into a Mountain Village in Southern China the official Xinhua news Agency said thursday. Six others were seriously injured and 65 build a a june 9 _ Ngui a Gion the report said. It said Homes were demolished and Trees uprooted by boulders As big As 23 feet in  envoy to Norway Dies of heart attack at 63 Oslo Norway apr soviet ambassador Aleksandr v. Tetens died thursday in Hauke land Hospital in Bergen after suffering a heart attack the National Erk radio reported. He was 63. Teterin ambassador to Norway since 1987, had been taking part in an annual excursion for ambassadors organized by the foreign ministry. A soviet embassy spokesman declining to be named confirmed by Telephone that the embassy was informed of Teterina a  unemployment rate Rose to 5.7 percent in May London apr Britain a unemployment rate Rose to 5.7 percent in May from 5.6 percent in the previous month. The seasonally adjusted rate compared with 6.5 percent a year ago. The number of jobless Rose 4,400 during May compared with a Rise of 2,200 in april and a decline of 21,000 in May 1989. April a gain was the first in july 1986. The number of unemployed without seasonal adjustment was 1.58 million people in May compared with a revised 1.63 million people in april and 1.8 million people in May 1989. Ings destroyed in the june 9 disaster in Jiang Village in the Guangqi Zhuang autonomous re vietnamese hand Over Bones of possible mias Kuala Bumpur Malaysia apr nine vietnamese boat people have Given police the skeletons of 30 people they claim were from americans killed in the Vietnam War officials said thursday. Paul Blak bum charge do affaires at the . Embassy said wednesday that a it is possible but it is not Likely to be True that the Bones Are from americans missing in action. Embassy press officer Meg Gilroy said malaysian authorities would hand Over the Bones to the embassy soon. She said an official from either the joint casualty Resolution Center in Bangkok Thailand or the . Defense department forensic Laboratory would take them to Hawaii for tests to determine if they belong to . Troops. She said the embassy did not know yet How the vietnamese obtained the Bones which malaysian officials said were handed Over to police in the Kota Ting i District 150 Miles South of Kuala Bumpur. The newspaper new Straits times reported wednesday that police had found Metal tags on the skeletons. It quoted Deputy superintendent of police Roslan Dolah As saying a the tags had the names and unit numbers and addresses of the dead men believed to have been killed during the Vietnam  it also quoted Roslan As saying the nine vietnamese aged 18 to 56, told police they left Vietnam on May 30 and had to land monday at Kota Ting i when their boat sprang a leak. The vietnamese were sent to a refugee Camp in nearby Mersing. A we Are investigating the reasons for the refugees bringing the skeletons with them. We have not come across such cases before a the paper quoted Roslan As saying. It added a it is understood the Refu gees were in route to Singapore to hand Over the skeletons to the american embassy. By doing so the refugees not Only hoped to gain Refuge to the . But also to get some monetary Reward m Exchange for the  Singapore is about 60 Miles South of where they landed. In. The United states now lists 2, americans As missing from the Indochina War. These include l ,678 in Vietnam. Refugee officials said this was not the first time vietnamese refugees had claimed to have brought Bones of american soldiers. But the presence of Metal tags would make this Case different they said