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Turtle stops construction
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - High
rolling developers betting on a
housing construction boom in the
Las Vegas Valley have been
stopped in their tracks by the des
ignation of a turtle as an endan
gered species.
The federal listing of the desert
tortoise - Nevada’s official state
reptile - prohibits disruption of the
animal’s habitat. That already has
blocked off-road races, and threat
ens cattle grazing on some federal
land and some military activity.
“The potential impact on Las
Vegas could be horrendous,” said
Paul Selzer, a Palm Springs, Calif.,
lawyer hired by local officials to
draw up and sell the federal gov
ernment on a plan to save the tor
toises while allowing develop
menl. “It’s now a crime to move
the tortoises from your building
site and it’s a crime to hurt them in
any way.”
Sclzcr set up a refuge for an
endangered lizard in the Coachella
Valley near Palm Springs that has
become a model for settling con
flicts over endangered species.
The Aug. 4 listing by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service was
brought about by biologists’ con
cerns that a respiratory disease is
killing off thousands of the bur
rowing tortoises, which live up to
80 years. The emergency designa
tion means all the protections of
the Endangered Species Act im
mediately went into effect for
eight months, pending further de
cisions.
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j Drug plan has secret part
WASHINGTON - President
George Bush’s battle plan for the war
on drugs has a secret section that
could expand the role of the U.S.
military, possibly sending advisers to
Peru and Bolivia, administration offi
cials said Sunday.
Drug czar William J. Bennett said
President Bush was willing to send
Special Forces advisers to the An
dean countries, but stressed in a tele
vised interview that the administra
tion docs not intend to send troops
into combat in Latin America.
As part of his anti-drug efforts,
Bush signed a National Security
Decision Directive outlining the
goals and limits of military involve
ment, said another administration
official, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Bush, in a nationally televised
speech last Tuesday, said S261 mil
lion in security assistance would be
available to Colombia, Bolivia and
Peru for their anti-drug efforts. Gov*
emment agencies will be working
over the next two weeks drafting
detailed plans for the use of that
money, me source saiu.
Bennett did not discuss details of
the classified effort, but he denied
published reports the administration
intends to send U.S. Special Forces
on drug-fighting missions in combat
zones in the two Andean Mountain
neighbors of Colombia.
“There is no plan for any Special
Forces to accompany troops in Peru
or Bolivia into combat missions,”
Bennett said in the ABC-TV program
“This Week with David Brinkley.”
Although U.S. troops may be
under orders to avoid combat, the
administration has dispatched secu
rity advisers to Colombia as part of a
$65 million package designed to as
sist that nation fight cocaine cartels.
“We sec now in Colombia the
presence of American trainers work
ing with the Colombians, giving
them advice, training them on equip
ment. This is the kind of thing we
would anticipate if Peru and Bolivia
take the steps,” Bennett said.
Bennett was responding to a report
in Sunday editions of the Washington
Post that Bush had signed a secret
uiivvuvv iiiwiuuiii^ iicvs rules of
engagement” for U.S. Special Forces
in the three Andean countries.
About two dozen members of the
U.S. Special Forces based in Panama
have been rotating into Bolivia’s
Chapare Valley, training anti-narcot
ics police there, but they have been
barred from patrols
The Post said the directive would
allow the advisers to accompany
Bolivian drug forces on patrol. How
ever, the administration source said
that ‘ The military is not allowed to go
out into the jungle on patrol. Thai is
the way it has been and the way it
remains.”
The Post report quoted an uniden
tified senior administration official
as saying that ‘‘several hundred”
U.S. military advisers could be sent
to the three nations under the “An
dean initiative” announced by Bush.
It said a secret section of the initia
tive would authorize the U.S. Special
Forces to accompany military patrols
into so-called “safe areas” in the
three nations.
Colombia to extradite 3 traffickers
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The Co
lombian government will extradite
three more reputed cocaine traffick
ers wanted in the United States on
charges of money-laundering and
drug smuggling, an official said Sun
day.
The announcement came after a
weekend of army raids on ranches
believed owned by the country’s top
two drug barons. Soldiers seized
property including cattle, tropical
birds and swimming pools, the army
and the El Espcctador daily said.
In Medellin, the nation’s second
largest city, a series of attacks linked
to drug cartels continued. A bomb
damaged a liquor factory, hooded
assailants set a city garbage truck on
fire, and police defused a bomb at a
branch of a government-run savings
bank. No injuries were reported.
In western Colombia, assailants
killed a foreman and set fire to the
ranch of a government official who
wanted the confiscated rural property
of drug traffickers distributed to
peasants.
A National Drug Council official,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
told The Associated Press the govern
ment has signed extradition orders
for three imprisoned Colombians:
Ana Helena Rodriguez, 37, jailed in
Bogota and accused of drug traffick
ing; Bernardo LondonoQuintana,47,
jailed in Bobota for allegedly laun
dering money; and Alberto Orlandez
Gamboa, 37, jailed in Medellin, also
for alleged laundering.
An army officer in Medellin, ask
ing not to be identified for security
reasons, said the properties seized
over tne weekend are believed to
belong to two of the most wanted
drug bosses: Pablo Escobar and
Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. They are
believed to be the No. 1 and No. 2
men in the Medellin cocaine cartel.
Last month, after assassins work
ing fpr the traffickers killed Sen. Luis
Carlos Galan, the leading presiden
tial candidate and an outspoken foe of
drug cartels, President Virgilio Barco
assumed emergency powers and or
dered seizures of bank accounts and
property thought to be tied to the drug
trade.
Since then, the army and police
have made public numerous confis
cated documents showing the pur
ported multimillion-dollar, multina
tional holdings of Colombia’s most
notorious drug barons, all currently in
hiding.
Hungary to let East German refugees leave
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungary
announced Sunday that more than
7,000 East Germans who fled their
Communist homeland will be al
lowed to leave refugee camps for
West Germany beginning at mid
night.
Hungary thus becomes the first
East bloc government to help the citi
zens of another Communist nation
escape to the West. The mass emigra
tion of East Germans to West Ger
many will be the largest since the
Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stem
the flow across the border.
East Germany promptly attacked
the Hungarian decision, charging that
Budapest had “directly interfered’
in its internal affairs.
It said that Hungary, “under the
guise of humanitarianism, has en
gaged in the organized smuggling of
human beings.”
West Germany thanked Hungary
for what it called a “humanitarian
act. ,
The Hungarian foreign minister,
Gyula Horn, suggested on Hungarian
TV that tens of thousands ol outer
East Germans now vacationing in
Hungary also may choose to leave lor
the West.
West Germany, which olfers Easi
Germans automatic citizenship and
help getting settled, already has set up
camps in Bavaria to receive the reiu
kccs. _
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