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100 U.S. military troops arrive in Bolivia
TRINIDAD, Bolivia (AP) — At
least 100 U.S. troops arrived here
Thursday and were making prepa
rations with Bolivian police to fight
the illegal drug trade.
By noon, about 60 of the U.S. sol
diers, some heavily armed and wear
ing helmets and knapsacks, boarded
the Black Hawk helicopters that ar
rived aboard a Galaxy C5-A trans
port plane Monday.
The helicopters were believed
headed for the Josuani ranch, once
the property of prosperous cocaine
traffickers and now the base for the
U.S.-Bolivian attempt to disrupt co
caine production and traf f icking.
The base, set up by U.S. soldiers
and Bolivian “Leopards” narcotics
police, is about 75 miles northwest of
Trinidad, in the midst of what is
known as the Beni flatlands.
Two U.S. Army trucks and a fork
lift assisted in loading the helicopt
ers. According to Jane’s All The
World’s Aircraft, the Sikorsky Black
Hawk helicopters have bulletproof
fuel tanks, can cruise at 184 mph
and are especially well-suited for
landing in adverse conditions. They
are armed with 30-caliber machine
guns and can carry up to 1 1 passen
gers.
U.S. pilots have been instructed to
shoot if fired upon during the
planned raids on cocaine labs.
Neither U.S. nor Bolivian officials
have revealed where the forces plan
to strike.
The arrival of the troops raised to
160 the total U.S. military presence
in Bolivia. It is the first time U.S.
troops have been deployed abroad
to combat the illicit drug trade, U.S.
officials say.
President Victor Paz Estenssoro is
providing U.S. servicemen with dip
lomatic immunity during the ex
pected two-month stay in Bolivia.
In La Paz, Interior Minister Fer
nando Barthelemy insisted that nei
ther U.S. soldiers nor the potent
weaponry of the Black Hawk heli
copters would be used directly in the
raids.
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Treaty to ease terrorist extradition
Gash in Titanic
to be viewed
by robot Jason
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate on Thursday ended a year
long debate and voted 87-10 appro
val of a treaty making it easier for
Britain to win extradition of sus
pected Irish terrorists from the
United States.
The new treaty has been sup
ported by the Reagan administration
as part of the international war
against terrorism, but it had been
stalled by Democrats from North
eastern states with large populations
of Irish descendants.
The treaty stands approved since
only the Senate ratifies treaties.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.,
told his colleagues he opposed the
pact because “it equates all political
violence with terrorism.. . . It’s a bo
gus proposition.”
WOODS HOLE, Mass. (AP)—Re
searchers two miles below the sur
face of the Atlantic Ocean con
ducted a post-mortem on the Titanic
on Thursday, preparing to survey
the fatal gash an iceberg inflicted on
the luxury liner 74 years ago.
Early prenatal diagnosis tests found safe
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — A
new technique that allows doctors to
check the unborn for defects very
early during pregnancy appears to
be as safe as amniocentesis, the tradi
tional method used later in the ba
by’s development in the womb, a
study shows.
The new procedure, chorion vil
lus sampling or CVS, is still consid
ered experimental and is available
only at a few major medical centers.
However, Dr. Laird G. Jackson,
who directed the latest research, said
he expects it to largely replace the
widely used amniocentesis over the
next few years.
Amniocentesis cannot be per
formed until about the 16th week of
gestation, while chorion sampling is
done at the sixth to eighth week.
Ballard told reporters in a ship-to-
shore news conference Wednesday
night that he would like to send his
remote-controlled, camera-
equipped robot to the bow of the
huge steamship to see if it can find
the spot where the Titanic collided
with an iceberg shortly before mid
night April 14, 1912.
This means that if the fetus is defec
tive, the mother can have an abor
tion during the first trimester of pre
gnancy, when it is easier and safer to
perform than later.
Ballard, who discovered the Ti
tanic’s grave last September as head
of a French-American team, said
there is one discovery he is glad he
has not made in the wreckage.
“I am very relieved to not find any
(human) remains,” he said.
World Briefs
10 Filipino nuns released from captivity
MARAWI, Philippines (AP) —
A U.S. missionary kidnapped by a
Moslem group warned he would
be killed if the military tried to
free him, while 10 nuns released
Thursday after five days of cap-
tivity pleaded for leniency toward
their Moslem captors.
1 he Filipino nuns said they
were treated well and given
farewell party the night before
their release.
The army, meanwhile, moved I
400 soldiers and armored vehi-B
cles to Marawi to put pressure on
the kidnappers of American mis-
sionarv Brian Lawrence, accord
ing to Maj. Gen. Jose Magno.
Nuclear accident damages predicted
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
catastrophic accident at any of the
nation’s 117 commercial nuclear
power plants would cause $300
million to $15 billion in damages
away from the plant, according to
a congressional study.
The projected bill could go
even hirrher if an accident oc
curred during bad weather, the
General Accounting Office said
in a report released Wednesday.
Lite GAO said the highest
damage cost would result fronu
major accident at a nuclear gen
erator located near a major pop
ulation area.
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CBS News cuts 70 staffers from payroll
NEW YORK (AP) — Seventy
staffers, including longtime cor
respondent George Herman
whose assignments have included
the White House beat and the
“Face the Nation” broadcast,
were told by CBS News Thursday
that they had been cut from the
pavroll and most were ariven two
weeks to clean up their affairs
CBS said the staff cuts were
due to the CBS Broadcast
Groups’s declining advertisiiii!
revenues and stagnant profits
CBS News will lose 20otherposi-
(ions through attrition and job
consolidation.
Help sought for drought-stricken farms
Officials of parched Southern
states turned to the federal gov
ernment, Midwestern farmers
and neighbors Thursday for help
in feeding livestock during a re
cord drought that has turned pas-
tureland to dust.
Atlanta residents faced the
prospect of water restrictions for
the first time in their history,and
no relief was forecast for the heat
wave blamed for 14 deathsasn
spread into the Midwest.
The heat has been blamed for
the deaths of seven people in
Georgia, three in North Carolina
and one each in South Carolina
Virginia and Louisiana.
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