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Four associated with Noriega
convicted on smuggling charges
LAFAYETTE, La - Four men were
convicted Monday in a major drug
smugglirg operation with links to
deposed Panamanian dictator Man
uel Noriega, but 16 co-defendants in
the 2 1/2-month trial were found in
nocent.
The defendants, mostly boat cap
tains and truck drivers, had been
charged with conspiracy, importation
and distribution. Federal prosecutors
said they smuggled 48,000 pounds of
marijuana into North Carolina in 1982
and 280,000 pounds into Louisiana in
1983.
They planned to smuggle 1 mil
lion pounds into Missouri in 1984,
prosecutors said, but were foiled by
the arrest of ringleader Stephen Mi
chael Kalish. Kalish testified that what
he called the “Master Blaster” load
was to arrive a few days before he was
arrested.
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Kalish, who said his drug-smug
gling organization operated from the
late 1970s through 1984, is currently
in prison stemming from a guilty plea
entered in Tampa, Fla., in 1987 to a
charge of continuing criminal enter
prise.
Jerry Hughey, of Austin, Texas;
Jim Swope, of Texas; and Max Wade,
no address available; were found guilty
on 16 counts. Steve Ellendcr of Houma,
La., was found guilty on six counts
and innocent on seven others.
The same investigation that led to
the trial also led to Noriega’s 1988
indictment in Tampaon drug charges.
In his testimony, Kalish said he
had given Noriega a $300,000 “pres
ent” for helping arrange a Panama
nian banking network to launder drug
profits. He said the network he set up
with Noriega laundered $50 million
to $ 1 (X) million a month for the
Medellin drug cartel of Colombia.
In November, a pilot who said he
flew a private airplane for Kalish's
drug operation said Noriega was a
passenger aboard the plane several
times.
‘‘Kalish offered Noriega the plane
when he needed it,” Jay Foreman
testified Nov. 27.
Foreman said that after becoming
involved in Kalish’s operation, he
was able to avoid customs inspec
tions in Panama.
Counts one through six in the in
dictment were conspiracy counts
regarding the possession, importation
and distribution of marijuana. Counts
seven through 13 dealt with aiding
and abetting the importation and dis
tribution.
Hughey, Swope and Wade were
convicted on all of those counts, plus
three counts each dealing with wire
fraud, interstate commerce and the
illegal distribution of funds from the
conspiracy.
Ellcnder was found guilty on the
first six counts.
Thousands in E. Germany
storm police headquarters
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people stormed the headquarters of
East Germany’s hated secret police
Monday, official media reported, and
a prosecutor said he will indict for
mer Communist leader Erich Honccker
for high treason.
The charge, which also will be
sought against the former head of the
secret police, carries a minimum
penalty of 10 years in prison and a
maximum of death in “exceptionally
grave cases.’’
East German state television said
the situation at secret police head
quarters had gotten 4 ‘out of control. ’ ’
The reports forced a hasty suspension
of talks between the government and
the opposition.
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said lens oi thousands nao stormca
the building, while stale-run televi
sion spoke of 100,000 people.
The secret police are being dis
banded, following massive protests
from East Germans.
Cfcief prosecutor Hans-Juergcn
Joseph told officials at the govern
ment-opposition talks that Honecker
and former national security chief
Erich Mielke are being investigated
for ‘ ‘anti-constitutional association
and high treason. i
Honecker and Mielke already had
been under investigation for corrup
tion and abuse of power. Honecker
was removed as Communist Party
leader Oct. 18. |
Mielke headed the secret police, \
which has become a target of bitter j
criticism since the Communists were f
forced to share power in East Ger- (
many’s peaceful revolution.
Communist Premier Hans Modrow f
today promised to publicize details of r
how the secret police force is being t
dismantled and he appealed for an
end to strikes. c
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Chimpanzee goes berzerk,
bites off veterinarian’s ear
and fingers during rampage
LIUONIER, Pa. - A chimpan
zee went on a rampage as it was
being moved Monday morning and
bit off a veterinarian’s ear and part
of one hand, police said.
Dr. John C. Kelliher, 43, of Adel
phi, Pa. was helping William C.
Holmberg transfer two chimps from
their cages to a transport cage when
one of the animals forced its way
loose and attacked Kelliger, police
said.
Holmberg hit the a 20-ycar-old
male chimp with a large metal pipe,
said stale Trooper Clint Irvin. As
the chimp released Kelliher,
Holmberg managed to push the
injured veterinarian into an empty
animal cage and lock the door.
When police officers arrived,
Holmberg borrowed a gun from
one of them and shot the chimp
four times, but the animal remained
alive until another officer destroyed
it with one more shot.
Kelliher was flown toPresbytc
rian-University Hospital in Pitts
burgh, where he was listed in fair
condition. The thumb, fourth and
fifth fingers on one hand were
amputated, his left ear was bitten
off, and he was bitten on his face,
head, scalp and forearm.
Holmberg used to run a zoo at a
small amusement park in Westmore
land County, Pa., and has been
taking care of the chimps and as
sorted exotic birds since it was
closed about five years ago, said
police dispatcher Marilyn Sinsa
baugh.
The chimps were being taken to
a laboratory in Maryland when the
attack occurred around 2:15 a.m.,
Sinsabaugh said. She didn’t know
why they were going to the lab.
Victims found in ferry
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Salvage
workers pulled up a capsized ferry
Monday and found 16 bodies in its
lull, the government said. Newspa
>crs said at least 100 people were
eared dead after the collision with a
argo vessel.
Rescue workers called off the search
or bodies at dusk, but hundreds of
datives of the victims still thronged
he river banks.
“Have you seen my husband?”
>ne woman, Ranu Ali, asked the res
cuers. “He was on the ferry.”
When told her husband, Ahmed
Ali, was not among the survivors, she
began sobbing.
The single-deck wooden ferry
Ajmcri sank Sunday at the conflu
ence of the Dhaleswari and Shitalkhya
rivers near Munshiganj, 20 miles
southeast of Dhaka.
Police and other officials refused
to say how many people were aboard
the ferry.
Shipping Minister Korbal Ali told
Parliament the ferry was brought to
the surface about 15 hours after it
capsized. Authorities said it sank in
about 50 feet of water.
“Only 16 bodies have been found
so far in the hull,” Ali said. Hedidnot
say whether the death toll was ex
pected to rise. One official said he
doubted more bodies would be found
when the search resumed at dawn
today because they may have been
swept downstream.
The government-owned Bangla
desh Times said there were 300 people
on board, while the independent II
tefaq newspapers said there were 150.
The ferry had a licensed capacity of
just 60 passengers.
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know what Otoe-Missouri tribal offi
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about when they say they want the
remains of their ancestors removed
from Nebraska museums.
Two Nebraska museum officials
said they don’t have the remains and
don’t know who does.
‘ ‘ I’ve got a big surprise for them -
we don’t have any,” said Hugh
Genoways, director of the University
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James Hanson, director of the
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Otoe Tribal Chairwoman Della
Cheryl Warrior recently learned from
Walter R. Echo-Hawk, an attorney
with the Native American Rights Fund
of Boulder, Colo., that some Otoe
skeletons from the 1300s might be in
the custody of the Nebraska State
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