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Drug crackdown nets 1,200 arrests i
WASHINGTON — More than
1,200 people were arrested this month
in a 30-nation drug crackdown un
precedented for its international
teamwork, Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh said Tuesday.
The operations, centered in the
United States and South and Central
America, led to the seizure of 11 tons
of cocaine and the destruction of 244
tons of marijuana, 118,000 coca
plants and 13 cocaine laboratories,
Thornburgh announced.
Authorities also demolished seven
hidden airstrips and seized $3.8 mil
lion in cash, he said.
The Aug. 1-28 campaign involved
a variety of operations, inclflding in
tensified border searches, the discov
ery and destruction of chemical
stores, and increased patrols of air
ports, highways and rivers known to
have been used for illicit drug ship
ments.
In Florida, Arizona and Texas,
about 100 members of the National
Guard helped inspect over 6,000
vehicles, leading to the seizure of
marijuana.
Thornburgh, revealing the opera
tion at a news conference, said “The
statistics are not as important as the
signal that has been sent to the drug
kingpins. Henceforth they will in
creasingly face the combined fury ot
law enforcement agencies of all na
tions whose people they victimize.”
He called the international coop
eration an “important milestone” and
the “first type of operation of its kind”
on the war against drugs. Regional
operations, those involving more than
one or two countries, have not been
tried before, he said.
The participating countries, all
members of the International Drug
Enforcement Conference, shared re
sources and intelligence and staged
cross-border operations. Officials
insisted that the United States did not
orchestrate the effort.
Walesa to meet with Polish leadership
GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity
founder Lcch Walesa will hold his
first talks with the Polish leadership in
six years Wednesday in a government
effort to end two weeks of labor tur
moil, his advisers said.
Walesa will confer in Warsaw
with Interior Minister Czeslaw
Kiszczak at a meeting attended by a
representative of the Roman Catholic
Church but will not call off the strike
at his shipyard in Gdansk, the advisers
said.
The announcement resulted from
four days of maneuvering started by
Kiszczak’s proposal on Friday that
officials and worker representatives
hold “round-table” discussions.
A communique from the Commu
nist Party’s ruling Politburo, distrib
uted by the official news agency PAP,
mentioned a round-table meeting,
endorsed it and said Kiszczak should
“carry on with the mission entrusted
to him.”
It was not clear, however, whether
the reference was to the Wednesday
meeting or the minister’s original
proposal on Friday. No other official
reference was made to the Walesa
Kiszczak talks.
Ten enterprises in Poland re
mained on strike Tuesday. At its
height, the current labor trouble in
volved 20 sites employing 100,000
people and was the worst since 1980.
Solidarity spokesmen said there
was no agreement for an immediate
end to the strikes, in which a central
demand has been making Solidarity
legal again. It was suppressed after
the declaration of martial law in
December 1981 and outlawed in
1982.
Tadcusz Mazowiecki, a senior
Solidarity adviser, called the decision
for talks “a historic moment.”
On Tuesday evening, Walesa left
the strikebound Lenin shipyard,
where he works as an electrician, to
confer with advisers and Bishop
Tadcusz Goclowski at nearby St.
Brygida’s church. He emerged from
the rectory with the bishop later to
cheers and chants from supporters.
Government spokesman Jerzy
Urban said earlier in the day that talks
could begin as soon as Walesa called
off the strike at the Lenin shipyard,
where the Soviet bloc’s first free
union was bom in the labor uprising of
1980, but aide Piotr Konopka said:
“For the present, the strike is still on.’’
He said Walesa would attend the
Wednesday meeting as president of
the Independent Self-Governing
Trade Union Solidarity, the labor
federation’s full name.
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Researchers say greenhouse effect can t be stopped
WASHINGTON—A group of climate researchers has warned that
the "greenhouse effect" warming of the Earth will continue e ven if there
are sharp cutbacks in the use of the chemicals which cause the problem
The heatup "appears to be inevitable, even with ... drastic, and
probably unrealistic reductions, of greenhouse forcing" by the release
of carbon dioxide and other gases, the scientists reported in the Journal
of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
The group, led by James Hansen of the National Aeronautical and
Space Administration, reached that conclusion after running computer
ized climate models in an effort to predict the climate in the future.
The models looked at the effectorchemical releases at three different
levels; continuing rapid release of the chemicals, as in recent years;
release at slower rates, and a drastic cutback in those chemicals.
In the first case, the Earth’s average temperature was calculated to
rise by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit within 20 years.
It would take 25 years for that increase in the second model and 15
years for a .8 degree increase in the third model.
Federal judge bars Eastern Airlines layoffs
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday stopped Eastern
Airline fmm firina 4 000 e.mnlovces but allowed the financially
strapped carrier to go ahead with cutting back service to 14 cities on
Wednesday as planned. , . „ ,
“Massive layoffs are not, and shall never be business as usual, U.S.
District Judge Barrington Parker said in a 50-page opinion.
“The Railway Labor Act requires Eastern to bargain with its unions
before taking unilateral action tocliminate 12 percent of its workforce.”
Eastern President Phil Bakes called the decision “gravely wrong”
and said the carrier would file an emergency appeal.
Death toll rises from airshow crash
RAMSTEIN, West Germany — The death toll in the worst crash at
an air show rose to 49 Tuesday, and officials feared some children
hospitalized with severe bums had been orphaned because no one
inquired about them.
The Pentagon said six Americans were among those killed when
three Italian jets collided Sunday at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, one
hurtling into the crowd in flames.
West German officials said two people died o( bums Tuesday,
raising their death toll to49. They said 14 had been identified, including
the three Italian pilots. None of the 14 was a U.S. citizen.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said the latest U.S. count
put the number of confirmed fatalities at 40, including six Americans,
four Germans, three Italians and 27 people of unknown nationality. Of
the six Americans, two were active-duty military personnel, three were
dependents and one is unknown, Howard said.
The latest Pentagon count also showed 363 individuals injured, of
whom 41 were Americans and 322 were Germans, Howard said.__
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