European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 16, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7ex-soviet citizens take up heroin Trade by the new York times new York a As heroin floods into new York Federal Law enforcement officials have discovered a new group of smugglers emigres from the former soviet Union. A the collapse of the soviet Empire has created some new opportunities for drug traffickers a said Robert c. Bonner the head of the drug enforcement administration. A before the Berlin Wall went Down and before the changes in Eastern Europe some of these things probably  have taken  in one indication of this emerging a soviet connection a Federal drug agents arrested 13 people in Brooklyn and Queens on tuesday nine of them originally from the former soviet Union. All were charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin. The suspects Are believed to be a a Small part of a growing russian involvement in heroin smuggling and distribution a one Federal agent said. Mark . Kleiman a specialist on drugs with Harvard University said the discovery of the soviet connection was important because it enables the Dea to try to a shut it  but Kleiman the author of a new Book on drug policy called against excess said there were a so Many sources of heroin coming into the United states now that one new Channel was not Likely to make the Short term heroin picture much worse. A the Supply of heroin is increasing a he said a and that will probably mean a growing number of heroin  with cocaine waning in popularity among americans heroin use is on the Rise drug experts said. It is being sold in potent blends that can be snorted like cocaine or smoked like crack so that newcomers no longer need to overcome fears of the hypodermic Needle. The soviet emigres join a disparate  of foreign heroin smugglers dominated by the chinese and other asians but also including italians nigerians mexicans colombians and other latin americans. Supplies of heroin in Asia and latin America Are plentiful and the drug Sells wholesale in new York for 10 times the Price of cocaine. A kilogram of cocaine 2.2 pounds Sells for $16,000 to $20,000. Dea agents said the soviet 6migr6s have been Selling kilograms of heroin for $165,000 to $185,000. Though expensive at the wholesale level the drug can be diluted Many times Over and typically Sells on the Street for $10 a dose. About 35,000 Tami gods from the former soviet Union now live in the Brighton Beach Section of Brooklyn. Future space taxi the hl-20 a a Model spacecraft built by the science faculty and students at North Carolina a and tech state University at Greensboro n.c., and North Caro teen charged in san Bernardino Calif. Up manslaughter charges were filed tuesday against a Las vegas youth whose truck slammed head on into comedian Sam Kin Nisono a car killing the comic and injuring his wife. The 17-year-old, whose name was not released because he is a minor was charged with one count of vehicular manslaughter with Gross negligence said san Bernardino county Deputy District attorney Frank Motikeit. The teen Ager was being held at san Bernardino juvenile Hall. A detention hearing was scheduled for wednesday. The youth and a Friend were driving to a truck show in Arizona when the Accident occurred Friday on . 95, Motikeit said. Their 1974 Chevrolet pickup reportedly was filled with Beer cans As they Tore Down the desert Road swerving into oncoming traffic near the California Nevada Border. A a we re still awaiting results of the blood test for signs of alcohol or drugs a Motikeit said. By new Day the  times has complained that some information in pulitzer prize winning articles by new Day reporter Patrick j. Sloyan had appeared first in its pages. New Day editors said Sloyan a reporting was his own. James Doyle vice president of the Independent weekly newspaper based in Springfield va., sent a letter of complaint to new Day on monday. Doyle said tuesday night that Sloyan should have Given the  times a a Liberal sprinkling Quot of credit. Sloyan won the pulitzer for International reporting last week for his stories about the persian Gulf War. A i think his digging was into our files a Doyle told the Washington Post. A i think we probably have been ripped  Lina state University in Raleigh a is on display at a amp to. Nasa is studying the Model for eventual use As a space taxi with the shuttle later in this  s death the 38-year-old comedian who had just returned from his Hawaii honeymoon with Malika 26, the Las vegas dancer and longtime companion he had married a week earlier was on his Way to a sold out show in Laughlin nev., when the crash happened about 7 30 . Near Needles Calif. Immediately after the crash Kinison appeared to be Fine said friends who witnessed the crash from a second car. Kinison managed to free himself from the mangled vehicle and apparently had Only some facial cuts lying Down Only when friends begged him to. After what his friends said sounded like a conversation with a the upstairs a Kinison a former preacher died at the scene from internal injuries. His wife was released from Needles desert Community Hospital on sunday a Hospital spokeswoman said. The two youths in the pickup were not seriously injured. New Day editor Anthony Marro said a the suggestion that Pat Sloyan a ripped off anybody a work is both wrong and outrageous. We never said that everything he reported was exclusive or that other people weren to also reporting on Friendly fire. We said that we believed paths was the most com Lete the most detailed the most compelling and the est Overall account and we still  the Sloyan articles cited by Doyle dealt mainly with the breaching of iraqi lines in which thousands of iraqi soldiers were buried alive and with casualties from Friendly fire during a major tank engagement known As the Battle of Norfolk. Sloyan said tuesday night that he had completed most of his reporting before he saw any mention of those subjects in the  times.  candidate pulls upset in new District from wire reports Houston a a non hispanic won the democratic congressional nomination by 180 votes tuesday in a new District that had been drawn to virtually guarantee a hispanic Winner. State sen. Gene Green received 15,843 votes or 50.3 percent to 15,663, or 49.7 percent for City councilman Ben Reyes a hispanic. Green a 20-year member of the legislature will face Republican Clark Kent Ervin a former White House aide in november. The District which extends Finger like into hispanic sections of the City is one of three new seats Given to Texas because of the 1990 census. Hispanics represent 55.4 percent of its voters Whites 33.4 percent and Blacks almost 10 percent. Green had finished second to Reyes in the March primary but neither got a majority forcing tuesdays  of churches jailed san Antonio a a Shoeshine Man who admitting that he had set fire to three churches a for the hell of it was sent to prison for 55 years. District judge Terry Mcdonald ordered Albert b. Morales 36, on monday to spend two consecutive 20-year terms in prison for burning Down two churches and 15 years for the  game kills officer new Haven Conn. An off duty police officer was killed with his service pistol Early tuesday when a Friend accidentally fired the gun while the two were playing with it police said. Luis Luna 22, died shortly after 5 . At Yale new Haven Hospital. His Friend Lucas Ortez 22, was charged with first degree manslaughter police said. Luna and Ortez were playing with the 9mm pistol loading and unloading it when the Accident occurred about 2 30 ., police  plea entered Laconia . The fifth and last defendant pleaded guilty tuesday in the Case of a school worker who seduced a teen age student and manipulated him and his friends into killing her husband. Raymond Fowler pleaded guilty in Belknap county Superior court to conspiracy to commit murder and attempted burglary. Sentencing will be held in about a month. Fowler 21, of Seabrook was accused of being involved in a failed attempt to murder Pamela smarts husband Gregory smart a month before he was killed May 1, 1990. Prosecutors said he and William Flynn Pamela smarts Lover borrowed her car but never reached their destination saying they got lost. Fowler also was accused of being in the getaway car a month later when Flynn and another teen Patrick Randall entered the condominium and shot Gregory smart in the head. Pamela smart 24, is serving a life sentence without parole for instructing Flynn Randall Fowler and Vance lattime to murder her husband. She was Media services coordinator at the Hampton High school the boys attended. Kinison will be buried in Tulsa okla. Army times says articles ripped off