2 M^TArc 1 Associated press Nebraskan - X W 2$ a F B ST: rT L Edited by Victoria Ayotte Monday, September 11, ig89 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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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. _ Nebraskan Editor Amy Edward* 472- 1766 Professional Adviser Don Walton 473- 7301 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 1^a°“LS published by the UNL Publications Boaro brasKa Unton 34. 1400 R St.. 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