TexasA&M - - V • The Battalion ol. 82 No. 178 USPS 045360 8 pages College Station, Texas Thursday, July 17, 1986 .S. military readies for Bolivian drug raids Whi. ’emh, .stros' .Tk 'all ir e [he antic- ;rsk ■thing : said A PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — U.S. heli- :opters with American military pi- are expected to begin Hying anti- ■g police on raids this week |inst cocaine laboratories hidden the Bolivian jungles, officials said Tdnesday. merican officials said six Black Hawk helicopters with pilots and iulport personnel were at a jungle ;amp in Beni province awaiting the ailer to begin operations against the clandestine laboratories. At least 100 American soldiers based in Panama were expected to arrive in the next B or two. j§\ U.S. Embassy officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said about 80 members of the Boliv- ■ anti-narcotics force known as the Hapards would take part in the raids, which could last up to two months. Olympic flame to visit A&M This impoverished, landlocked country of 6.4 million people pro duces half the cocaine that reaches U.S. and European markets, accord ing to U.S. Drug Enforcement Ad ministration figures. Edward Djerejian, deputy White House press secretary, said in Wash ington that 160 army personnel would participate, and confirmed that six Black Hawks were involved. He said President Reagan approved the operation. U.S. troops “will not participate in the actual operation, per se,” he said. “They’re in a support role, and I have to underline that. Every effort is being made to avoid placing U.S. personnel in situations where they might become involved in a con frontation.” American pilots will fly the heli copters, but Bolivian police wall di rect the operation, he said. The U.S. pilots have been ordered to shoot back if fired upon, one U.S. official in Bolivia said. President Victor Paz Estenssoro has given the soldiers diplomatic im munity. American officials here had said Tuesday that the U.S. Drug En forcement Administration would coordinate the raids. Djerejian did not comment on the agency’s role. About 15 DEA officers are in Bo livia. The American officials here said they were expected to go along on the raids. The operation comes one month after Reagan signed a directive de claring drug trafficking a threat to U.S. national security. Bolivian officials expressed anger about the breach of secrecy and an Interior Ministry spokesman said that consideration was given to call ing off the operation because the el ement of surprise was lost. Officials of both governments had requested a news embargo until the raids began, but reports appeared in Bolivian dailies Tuesday, citing the arrival of U.S. Air Force Galaxy C5- A transport planes carrying the heli copters. First reports of the operation from Washington came later Tues day. U.S. officials say this is the first time the American military is being used in anti-drug operations on for eign soil. Campaign against narcotics escalates MEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrival of U.S. troops and aircraft in Bolivia to help eradicate clan destine cocaine laboratories is the latest salvo in a war against the narcotics trade in the Western Hemisphere. Drug traffickers’ wealth and power are so great that Latin leaders suggest only an interna tional ef f ort can combat it. President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico has called for a hemi spheric conference of law en forcement officials this year to discuss the problem. “Any strategy that any country . . . attempts to develop in isola tion, would be, I fear, insufficient or ineffective,” Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez recently told foreign correspondents. Mexican officials also have ex pressed concern about using the U.S. military along the border to help stop narcotics traffic from Mexico. Major drug scandals have ranged from the Bahamas and tiny Belize to Panama and such major nations as Mexico and See Campaign, page 8 , By Mary Frances Scott Staff Writer a Na me a :ago's f the he Olympic flame will pass 1 through Bryan and College Station Thursday as part of its 4,600 mile re lay from its permanent home in Pikes Peak to the Olympic Festival in Houston. ■It will enter College Station about 3 p.m. at the Southwood Valley Ath letic Park on Rock Prairie Road and will wind through the city and parts ladin bflthe A&M campus. Hi he flame then will be carried to fhe Chamber of Commerce building on University Drive. ■The last leg of the College Station Hrtion of the route will be manned H College Station Mayor Larry r Rihger, City Manager King Cole and former Aggie football star Dave El- Hndorf. ■Elmendorf is a former AU-Ameri- , .rail in baseball and football for A&M '"'"'' who went on to play nine years as a an defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams. ;ed the»|.: The trio, along with more than 30 155, B'lfier local runners, should arrive at ■d State Be Chamber of Commerce at 4:45 tegories pin. for a celebration recognizing local athletes and coaches participat ing in the Olympic Festival. Music Hd refreshments will be offered ( ( free of charge. ark j ||HBy the time it leaves the area, I 1 more than 80 local participants will j f tdB ve P asse< d >he torch from hand to ^ e . Hud. After leaving Bryan the torch ' will continue toward Houston for iate,” is ies ed Open ield at s Cen- ber 0^ 500 in -arded n- ily 25 up at ice of Hub at /ay t 11 cot 1 ' Coach r 774- Soviets: Nuclear test ban talks to resume S’ LONDON (AP) — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said Wednesday that Moscow and Washington had agreed to resume nltclear test ban talks. §• A U.S. spokesman in Washington said, however, that the two countries had agreed to resume talks about liniiting nuclear tests rather than banning them. || Speaking through an interpreter, Shevardnadze told a news confer- • ence that Moscow had “fundamen tally an agreement from the United States to resume negotiations, to re sume talks in Geneva on banning nuclear tests.” White House spokesman Edward Djerejian made it clear in Washing ton that the United States has no in terest at the moment in discussing a ban on all nuclear tests, as the Sovi ets want. “A comprehensive test ban re mains a long-term objective of the United States,” Djerejian said. He said that in the meantime, the United States has to rely on nuclear deterrents to ensure international security. The United States, the Soviet Union and Britain broke off formal test ban treaty talks six years ago, af ter making considerable progress, because they could not agree on the issue of verification. In 1982, the United States de cided that instead of a test ban treaty, substantial cuts in super power nuclear arsenals would be sought. A British official familiar with the new accord said it was wrong to sug gest that the treaty negotiations will resume. The official, who insisted on ano nymity, said he understood that weeks ago the United States and the Soviet Union had agreed to hold “general talks including nuclear test ing issues.” He said there was no suggestion that formal treaty talks would re sume. A U.S. official in London, who also spoke on condition of anonym ity, said the talks would be held in the framework of regular U.S.-So viet arms control negotiations sched uled to resume Sept. 18 in Geneva. Inadequate wind shear training led to crash DALLAS (AP) — A weather expert says he agrees with the Na tional Transportation Safety Board’s finding that lack of wind shear training was partly to blame for the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191. Spokesmen for Delta and the pilots’ union have said pilots of the flight were unaware of the se verity of the storm and cannot be faulted. The airline and the union contend there was a break down in communication between government-contract forecasters and air traf fic controllers. But the board’s report Tues day found that inadequate wind shear training contributed to the Aug. 2 crash at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that killed 137 people. John McCarthy, a wind shear researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said he 'agrees with the board’s conclusion that inadequate wind shear training was one of the crash’s probable causes. “I believe that this was an ex ample where an earlier decision (to abort the landing) clearly would have saved the airplane,” McCarthy said. “In my opinion from reading the record, this in formation was available to the crew.” He said he believes wind shear was present at the time of the crash and said the crew did not recognize obvious signs, includ ing lightning, that it was hazard ous to enter the storm. Trio convicted of kidnap conspiracy Jury returns verdict in torture trial KERRVILLE (AP) — A rancher, his son and an ex-ranch worker were convicted Wednes- day of conspiring to kidnap drift ers and forcing them into slavery in a plot that led to the cattle- prod torture death of a hitch hiker. The three face up to 20 years in prison for their roles in the conspiracy at a Hill Country ranch. The jury failed to make a specific finding in connection with allegations of a conspiracy to commit murder in the torture death of Anthony Bates, attor neys said. They were convicted of con spiring to commit aggravated kid napping in the abduction of Bates, a one-eyed drifter from Huntsville, Ala., and three oth ers. Bates’ body, witnesses said, was burned on a makeshift pvre in March 1984. The jury deliberated 19 hours over three days to reach a deci sion in the 11-week-old trial of rancher Walter Wesley Ellebracht Sr., 54, Walter Wesley Ellebracht Jr., 33, and Carlton Robert Cald well. 21. Sentencing was scheduled for 1 p.m. today. Prosecutors relied heavily on tape recordings of alleged torture sessions involving Bates. Wit nesses identified voices belonging to Caldwell and the younger Elle bracht on the recordings. Defense attorneys did not deny that Bates and other workers had been abused. But thev contended there was no conspiracy to kill Bates and argued that Bates and other workers were free to leave the ranch at anv time. Prosecutors said it appeared the jury agreed with the defense on that count, while finding the def endants guilty of conspiracy to kidnap. Gerald Carruth, a Department of Public Safety attorney who as sisted in the prosecution, said, “They must have believed there was no intent to cause the death of Anthony Bates.” Defense attorney Richard “Racehorse" Haynes said, “I have been happier. I’m not in total agreement with that jury, but I live and die by the system, and I live and die by this jury.” He added that he would seek probation for his client, the elder Ellebracht. He also said the jury verdict appeared to have ac quitted the defendants in connec tion with Bates’ death. Defense attorney Scott Stehl- ing said that since his client, Cald well, has already served two years while awaiting trial, he could be released even if he gets the maxi mum sentence of 20 vears. Court refuses to rule: Miller still local sheriff AUSTIN (AP) — A divided Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it lacked jurisdiction to consider a legal challenge mounted by the loser of the November 1984 Brazos County sheriffs election. The 6-3 decision lets stand an ap peals court ruling that made Ronnie Miller the winner of the election. Howard Hill, loser of the election, had filed an election contest suit and won at the trial court level. But an appeals court later threw out the trial court’s order that voided the November 1984 election and ordered new balloting. Miller received 22,146 votes and Hill got 21.984 in the 1984 election. The trial court had ordered a new election after determining that enough illegal ballots in the general election had been cast to change the outcome. The appeals court overruled that decision because Hill failed to specif ically prove that enough illegal votes were cast in the sheriff’s race to change the outcome. The Supreme Court, in a majority opinion written by Justice Robert Campbell, said it only has jurisdic tion to review election contest suits in certain cases, and this one did not meet the criteria. The dissent, written by Justice William Kilgarlin and joined by Franklin Spears and C.L. Ray, said the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to review the case because the val idity of a state statute was an issue.