European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the stars and stripes e world sunday february ?8 dutch counter euthanasia critics with Campaign Amsterdam Netherlands a the government is launching a publicity Campaign to counter what it says Are misunderstandings to outfits new policy on euthanasia. People think it s become a euthanasia free for All Justice ministry spokesman Victor hoi Tus said Friday. This is not True at  saying uninformed foreign journalists have distorted the new policy the government is translating a euthanasia fact Sheet into half dozen languages and distributing them to Media organizations and dutch embassies around the world Holtus said. The legislation passed earlier this month by parliament s lower House kept euthanasia a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 Yean imprisonment. But it said doctors who adhere to the Royal dutch medical association s strict euthanasia guidelines Are guaranteed immunity from prosecution. Squeeze on drug crime nets assets in puerto Rico san Juan puerto Rico a More than 100u.s. Agents and police on Friday seized millions of Dol Lars Worth of Homes businesses and islands owned by colombian led group of drug smugglers and Money  people were arrested in the sweep which followed an investigation of almost three years called operation Al Capone officials said. Officials from the drug enforcement administration said the group shipped heroin and at least a ton of co Caine to new York Boston Miami Philadelphia and other american  Dea s chief in san Juan William Mitchell said the cocaine shipments included 760 pounds in a six week period. Most of the cocaine was sent via couriers on commercial airlines which routinely do not Pas through customs checks on Domestic flights from the . Commonwealth to the .  drugs Are Here it s a snap to St. Louis or wherever Mitchell said in an interview. He estimated the value of the properties already seized at roughly $9 million but puerto rican police said up to $20 million in assets May be involved. Authorities said they included the Remote 75-acre boat cays eight Small islands mile off puerto Rico s South Central coast. Homes and 400 acres of Choice land near Cay Yand Jarome Alto two Mountain towns known for Flower growing and cattle grazing. An apartment building in colonial old san Juan a Home in the fashionable Condado neighbourhood of the capital and a business in the Hato Rey commercial Dis properties on the northeastern Island of Culebra which police said were to be developed into a tourist Complex. Several boats and cars including one Mercedes. All 10 people listed on arrest warrants were capture Friday according to a press release from . Attorney Daniel Lopez Romo. The release late Friday identified four  were from the colombian cocaine trafficking Center of Cali the major supplier of the drug to the East coast. All 10 were charged with conspiracy and operating a continuing criminal Enterprise. The Latte charge carries a maximum life sentence. Also arrested were 16 illegal dominican immigrant found on two of the properties Mitchell said. Increase in violence raises concern in Spain Madrid Spain a the discovery of the body of a teen Ager missing for More than a month made headline new across Spain on Friday underlining grow ing unease Over violence and social in Raveling in what is still perceived As a country of close knit communities. Although a Complete Coroner s  not immediately available the As sumption was that 16-year-old Susan Aruiz had been raped and murdered. Three teen age girls from the Small town of Alca scr in Eastern Spain also were raped and murdered. Their bodies were discovered buried in a Field last month 75 Days after the girls disappeared on their Way to a disco. The Man police believe raped and killed them is still at Large. Ruiz was last seen Early Jan. 9 As she walked Home from a party. Her body was found thursday half buried in a lot in a working class neighbourhood of Madrid. Although not startling by . Stan Dards the fact that 13 minors most of them girls have been abducted and Mur dered in the past five years in Spain was highlighted in a full Page report Friday inthe Barcelona daily la Vanguardia. Five of the victims were raped and killed in the past  1991, the last year for which figures Are available 908 homicides were reported in Spain a country of 39 million. That was 200 More homicides nationwide than reported a decade earlier. Sociologist Alberto Moncada says re search into the social aspects of Delin Quency As Well As the disappearances Oyoung people is underdeveloped. The murder of this girl Ruiz could have happened in Detroit but we just Don t know that much about these kinds of crimes he said. He cited the breakdown of parental discipline and Domestic violence As contributing factors but added that hereto statistics Are few and far Between. Sociologist Domingo comas Points out that crime statistics first were recorded in Spain in the 16th Century. However the19th and 20th-Century political crises and a 36-year dictatorship that clamped Down on crime also stifled criminology and reports of Domestic violence. Francisco Lobaton Host of who know where a television program dedicated to finding missing people agrees that re search and statistics Are inadequate. But he believes the emotional Impact of the rape murders on society is often High be cause of the time lapse Between the disappearance and the discovered  these were just casual murders that were known the same Day someone shutdown on the Street the reaction would be different. But Here you have entire communities hanging on the Fate of kids who disappeared. Tension builds  audience figures soar. Who knows where which devoted a program to Ruiz has the highest ratings in Span ish television. The Confluence of a rapidly changing society in which parents who lived under a repressive dictatorship arc loathe to rein i their children the availability of drugs and alcohol for people Over 12, and a night competitive television Market make such stones a major Media concern. Russian soldiers desert at space site Moscow a about 20 russian soldiers who said they were overworked deserted their posts at the Bitner soviet Union s main space Center and were later detained a news Agency reported Friday. The soldiers at the Bai Konur cosm drome where rioting by conscripts last year killed three people commandeered a military truck and headed out into the Barren Steppe that surrounds the Center itar Tass said citing a local newspaper report. The Center is inthe former soviet Republic of Kazakhstan a space Center official it. Col. Sergei Gorbunov said the soldiers were later detained according to itar Tass. The report did hot say when the soldiers left their Post at the Proton rocket launching site or How they were apprehended. Itar Tass said they were protesting an unreason Able work Load caused by under staffing. It quoted Gor a univ As saying Bai Konur military units Are at 62 per cent of their authorized strength. Several Hundred conscripts in a military construction unit at Bai Konur rioted for two Days last year to protest poor food hazing and beatings. Three people died in the violence. About 17,000 soldiers Are assigned to construction jobs at the space Center which is about 1,560 Miles Southeast of Moscow. Red army construction troops traditionally Are the worst fed housed and clothed units. Morale in the army has plummeted since the break up of the soviet Union. The armed forces Are Short of funds. Draft dodging is at an All time High even though the years ots months about a goo conscripts failed to Fanti a 6-Monlh-old elephant sits on a sofa in loud Popova a Kiev zoo worker took Fanti Home because report after the Spring 1992 draft officials said. Mila Popova s one room apartment in Kiev Ukraine. The other elephants were hostile toward him. Taking a Load off