European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 25, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5ex-aide to Noriega testifies on drug Cash Miami apr Manuel Antonio Noriega s former right hand Man testified monday that he delivered envelopes and suitcases stuffed with drug Money to his Boss and accompanied him to a meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Quot testifying in Noriega s drug trafficking trial for a third Day Luis Del Cid described himself As a confidential a errand Bov Quot for the ousted panamanian dictator. Del Cid also said the former panamanian ambassador to Paris. Caspar wit Green brought four a easy women to visit Noriega in 1983. The statement prompted an angry demand for a mistrial from Lead defense attorney Frank Rubino. After a Bench conference testimony continued but prosecutors did not follow up on the women s visit. The former aide s testimony finished on a dramatic note when prosecutor Myles Malman asked him to identify Noriega. As Del Cid pointed him out. His former cd Nymander stood up and Del Cid reflexively Rose to his feet in the witness Box. Del Cid said his first contacts with Colombia s Medellin cocaine Cartel came in late 1981 when under Noriega a orders he successfully mediated the kidnapping of Marta Ochoa sister of three Cartel leaders. She was released by leftist m-19 colombian guerrillas after the Cartel paid a $1.2 million Ransom. Soon afterwards Del Cid said private planes from Colombia began flying into Panama City s downtown Pattilla Airport. He said Noriega frequently sent him to Pattilla to meet with three pilots who worked closely with Noriega. On one occasion in their hangar Pilot Enrique pre text introduced him to Jorge Luis Ochoa one of the top Cartel leaders. Del Cid said that in november la 82. Noriega sent him Quot to Piek up an pm Elope with Money drug Money Quot from another Pilot. Floyd Carlton. Three months later Del Cid returned Tor another. Hea ice envelope. According to the indictment the second envelope contained $200,000 and the first $100,000, Del c id told the jury he also provided Security for the delivery of eight to 10 suitcases that Noriega s Secretary Marcella Lason brought into Panama. Quot it was supposedly Money a it could t be anything  Del Cid said. The indictment said Castro m ll>84 negotiated a dispute Between Noriega and the Cartel after panamanian troops raided a cocaine Laboratory near the colombian Border. Del Cid accompanied Noriega on a flight to Cuba and met Castro after the raid but said he did not attend the meeting Between Noriega and  traces spread of aids in Massachusetts Roy Doyon holds up his poster showing the route aids has taken in Massachusetts. Amherst. Mass. A a poster mapping out the spread of aids from Boston to Massachusetts hinterland worries some image conscious state officials. The poster developed at the University of Massachusetts shows that aids has touched More than a Quarter of the states 351 cities and towns. University cartographer Roy Doyon who based the poster on information from the state department of Public health plans to print 1,000 copies with $500 from a private College foundation. Officials at the Massachusetts aids surveillance program told him they have no Money to help. So he plans to deliver it himself to teachers and state lawmakers. Kathleen Gallagher state program supervisor wrote to Doyon that his poster which shows a set of maps could a actually be misinterpreted causing people to stereotype certain cities and  Gallagher later referred questions to Kate Mccormack of the state department of Public health. Mccormack said a putting a map up. In various schools requires an explanation of what the map Means. That requires further  Doyon believes the poster will help convince people that aids has moved beyond big cities and can strike anyone not just drug users and homosexuals. Denise Mcwilliams director of the aids Law project of the Boston based Gay and l lesbian advocates agrees. Quot i think people feel that ii1v is an illness that some lung is locked in a ghetto someplace a either a Gay ghetto or drug using ghetto or an Urban ghetto Quot she said. Massachusetts has 4,063 recorded cases in a population of 5.7 million. At least 27.1 00 people have contracted his the virus that causes aids. State officials expect about 3h.ooo reported cases by 1994. Doyon s poster begun in december traces the disease s progression across the stale since 1085. Only i i communities reported five or More eases in 1085. Compared with 83 communities As of february Downs with fewer than five eases were not included in the health department records. The poster shows aids moving Westward from Boston along major transportation routes and concentrated along the North South interstate 01 corridor that links Springfield. Mass., to Hartford Conn. In the stars and stripes10 years ago sept. 25,1981 a polish prime minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the army would support police in a Tough new Law and order crackdown on anti state and ant soviet  within hours of the announcement heavily armed troops appeared on Warsaw streets.20 years ago sept. 25,1971 a the British foreign office announced that a senior soviet Kab intelligence agent defected to Britain with documents on a soviet spy network Bent on sabotage. 30years ago sept. 25, 1961 a As East Berlin police continued to expel residents living near the Border of the divided City an angry West Berlin crowd gathered on Bemauer Strasse to jeer the operation. In nearby Side streets firefighters stood ready with escape nets to Aid those jumping to Freedom. 40 years ago sept. 25, 1951 the United nations demanded that communist korean forces agree to a new location for armistice talks citing that Kaeson was not far enough from Battle front. California growers give president Box of Small illegal nectarines Washington a California growers unhappy with Federal marketing regulations distributed boxes of Small and a a illegal nectarines on monday to president Bush agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan and congressional officials. % although the nectarines taste As Good As any at the grocery store the boxes they were delivered in warned that they contained an a illegal  the disgruntled producers complain that current marketing orders unfairly keep smaller fruit off retail shelves a at great Cost to them and higher prices for Consumers. A a it a hard to believe but the fruit in this Box cannot be sold legally and must be destroyed because the us a says it is too Small a the Label said. A obviously it is Small fruit. But what right does the fed eral government have to Tell Farmers what size fruit they can sell a mondays protest was organized by the Farmers Alliance for improved regulation or fair which represents about one third of the peach and nectarine growers in California. It came on the eve of hearings in Visalia calif., on whether the peach and nectarine marketing orders should be abolished or replaced with a state program. Jim Moody an attorney for fair said the California marketing orders were originally designed to ensure a stable Market for californians fruit growers but have since been corrupted by a the big  he accused the agriculture department of looking the other Way As Industry insiders develop rules on a fruits size and maturity that ensures they capture the Market and squeeze out smaller growers. But Dan Haley administrator of the department s agricultural marketing service said he has heard that a old tired accusation Quot for years. A and every time we be looked into it. We come up  Moody said regulations that govern the size of fruit that can be shipped have forced Many growers to produce a larger crop because they know that a share of their Harvest May not meet the marketing order criteria. A and therein lies the tragedy Quot Moody said. Quot there a nothing wrong with a fruit that s a Little smaller maybe a Little sweeter and a Little better. Some Consumers actually prefer a smaller  at Issue Are marketing orders for Only California nectarines and peaches. Criminal bombings jumped 21% in 1990 Washiington a criminal bombings increased 21 percent last year and authorities nationwide seized nearly 40 tons of explosives the government said monday. The Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms said there were 2,062 bombings and attempted bombings in 1990, up from 1,699 the year before. The explosions killed 22 people a 11 fewer than in 1989. Quot the 78,000 pounds of explosives recovered in 1990 is four times higher than in any of the previous four years Quot said Stephen e. Higgins the bureaus director. A it underscores the growing dangers posed by explosives outside of Legal  total included 8,000 pounds of explosives seized in 143 drug related cases. There were 74 drug related bombings. Up from seven in 1987 when the Bureau started keeping track of them. Bombers cited vandalism and revenge most often As their motives the Bureau said in a statement. Bombs were most Likely to be sections of pipe packed with explosive powder or bottles filled with flammable liquid. Homes were most frequently the target followed by vehicles and businesses