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WASHINGTON (AP) — More
than 1,200 people were arrested this
month in a 30-nation drug crack
down unprecedented for its interna
tional teamwork, Attorney General
Richard Thornburgh said Tuesday.
The operations, centered in the
United States and South and Central
America, led to the seizure of 1 1
tons of cocaine and the destruction
of 244 tons of marijuana, 118,000
coca plants and 13 cocaine laborato
ries, Thornburgh said.
Authorities also demolished seven
hidden airstrips and seized $3.8 mil
lion in cash, he said.
The Aug. 1-28 campaign involved
a variety of operations, including in
tensified border searches, the dis
covery and destruction of chemical
stores, and increased patrols of air
ports, highways and rivers known to
have been used for illicit drug ship
ments.
In Florida, Arizona and Texas,
about 100 members of the National
Guard helped inspect over 6,000 ve
hicles, leading to the seizure of mari
juana.
Dukakis: Bush fails
test of leadership
Michael Dukakis said Tuesday
that George Bush flunked a key “test
of leadership” in the Iran-Contra af->
fair and questioned whether his Re
publican rival has the judgment
needed to deal with the Soviet
Union. Bush shot back that Dukakis
favors “unilateral cuts” in U.S. de
fenses.
The two contenders for the White
House swapped charges in their es
calating war of campaign words as
their top aides met in Washington
without agreeing on a schedule for
presidential debates this fall.
Bush campaign chairman James
A. Baker III said the Republicans
would accept two presidential de
bates and one confrontation be
tween vice presidential contenders,
but nothing before Sept. 22.
Dukakis aide Paul Brountas said
he favored a more extensive sched
ule.
“We want more debates, they
want fewer,” Brountas said. “We
want to start them earlier, they want
to start them later. We want to con
tinue them up until the election
takes place. They would like to end
them much earlier,” he added. The
two sides will meet again on Thurs
day.
Dukakis bargained through aides
with Bush over debates as fresh re
ports surfaced of lingering tensions
with Jesse Jackson. An anonymous
source said Jackson met with top Du
kakis aides last week and was an
gered when he was handed a list of
states to avoid during the fall cam
paign.
But Dukakis spokesman Dayton
Duncan called the report about the
list “absolutely false.”
Dukakis, who has sharpened his
rhetoric in the face of widespread
published reports that he has lost the
campaign offensive, said Bush was a
failure as a crime fighter and mis
guided on defense matters, and he
resurrected the Iran-Contra affair as
a campaign issue.
“Making tough decisions is a test
of leadership. George Bush en
dorsed the decision to sell arms to
Iran and in doing so he failed that
test,” Dukakis said.
Referring to the Iran-Contra af
fair, dealings with Panama’s indicted
leader Manuel Antonio Noriega and
Bush’s support during the early
1980s for ousted Philippines Presi
dent Ferdinand E. Marcos, Dukakis
said, “And he’s talking about
judgment, about negotiations, about
taking risks. I would be very con
cerned about someone with that
kind of judgment negotiating with
the Soviet Union.”
Bush kept up his own steady
drumbeat of criticism as he cam
paigned in North Carolina. “We
should not gamble America’s future
on another liberal governor coming
out of nowhere,” he said, likening
Dukakis to former President Carter.
Later, Bush said Dukakis wants
“to make unilateral cuts in our strat
egic systems, the MX, the Midget-
man, no testing, get rid of two (air
craft) carrier groups, as well.”
The vice president also cautioned
against complacency in dealing with
the Soviet Union. “I’m glad there is
change in the Soviet Union,” he said.
“But we’d better not let our guard
down.”
Thornburgh, revealing the opera
tion at a news conference, said “The
statistics are not as important as the
signal that has been sent to the drug
kingpins. Henceforth they will in
creasingly face the combined fury of
law enforcement agencies of all na
tions whose people they victimize.”
He called the international coop
eration an “important milestone”
and the “first type of operation of its
kind” on the war against drugs. Re
gional operations, those involving
more than one or two countries,
have not been tried before, he said.
The participating countries, all
members of the International Drug
Enforcement Conference, shared
resources and intelligence and, in a
few cases, staged cross-border oper
ations. Officials insisted that the
United States did not orchestrate the
effort.
John C. Lawn, head of the Drug
Enforcement Administration and
president of the conference, said in a
statement that several European na
tions and Canada stepped up mon
itoring of aircraft, boats and cargo
arriving from South America. Lawn
was in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday
for a conference meetimr.
DEA officials said there was no
central director for the dozens of op
erations carried out around the
Western Hemisphere. Instead, each
country drew' up and carried out its
own plan, sometimes in cooperation
with other countries.
For instance, Panama and Costa
Rica worked together to seize chemi
cals used for cocaine at points along
the border.
Panama participated intheo|*
lion as a member of the conferti
but did not receive any “central
intelligence" from the UnitedSli
Thornburgh said.
Panama’s military dictator,
Manuel Antonio Noriega, has
indicted by two federal grandj
in Florida on charges of drug
licking and money launden
Washington has sought his on
since early this year, applying
nomic sanctions that have hurt ft
ma’s economy.
Charles Gutensohn, chiefo[
DEA’s cocaine investigationsoS
said the simultaneous operati
were important because diet
added pressure on the traflidi
and of ten lead to valuable im
gence.
Many of the drug traffickers*
together, ignoring national bi
l ies, he said. He pointed to fi
where military authoritiesseizej
caine laboratories used by men!
of the powerful Medellin andt
drug cartels, based in Colombia
By destroying the labsintht
per Huallaga Valley, author
have sidetracked the Colonl
dealers, he said. Cocaine labs
were seized in Colombia itsd
well as Bolivia. In Colombia
Venezuela, military officials
both countries operated alon|
joint border.
As a result of information
tained in the operation, Gutein
said authorities in NewYorksd
two tons of cocaine and somej!
lion this month.
Economic indicators’ decline
most drastic in eight months
I
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government said
Tuesday its chief forecasting gauge of future economic
activity suffered the steepest drop in eight months in
July, but few analysts expect a substantial slackening in
growth anytime soon.
The 0.8 percent decline in the Commerce Depart
ment’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators was the
biggest since last November, when the index dropped
1.0 percent in the aftermath of the October stock mar
ket crash.
However, economists noted that the index posted an
exceptionally strong increase in June and cautioned
against reading too much into a one-month downturn.
In a separate report, the Commerce Department said
orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods
plunged 3.5 percent in July, the worst decline in 18
months. But that drop followed a very strong showing
in June and was heavily influenced by a wide swing in
orders for military equipment.
The economy, as measured by the gross national
product, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the three
months ended in June and at a 3.4 percent pace in the
first quarter.
White House spokesman B. Jay Cooper, in California
with the vacationing President Reagan, said, “The data
suggest continued economic growth in the months
ahead, although at a more moderate pace than in the
first half’ of the year.
However, the very strength that dispelled financial
markets’ worries about a recession is fueling concern
that the economy is expanding at a too-rapid pace that
will lead to faster inflation.
In an effort to ease inflationary pressures, the Fed
eral Reserve Board has been attempting to dampen
economic growth by pushing up short-term interest
rates since late March. On Aug. 9, it took its most dra
matic inflation-fighting move by raising the discount
rate, its key bank lending rate, by a half percei
point.
Lawrence Chimerine, chairman of theWefaGi
a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., economic forecasting
Tuesday’s reports should help encourage the Fi
hold off on any f urther tightening moves unless
evidence of inflation surfaces.
However, bond and stock traders had beenantio
ing the declines and the markets showed littlerei
in trading Tuesday.
In July, the weakness in the leading indicator
widespread, with seven of the available nine a*
nents registering declines.
The biggest drain came from an 11.3 percent
in unemployment claims. Without that, theovenl
treat of the index would have been only aboutOi
cent.
Other negative factors, in order of severity,
drop in new orders for consumer goods; a ded
building perrmts; a speedup in business deliveries!
sidered a sign ot slackening demand; a drop in
Standard 8c Poor’s index of 500 stocks; an infla
justed contraction of the money supply; and
drop in plant and equipment orders.
One indicator, a rise in prices for raw material!
read as a sign of economic strength. The lengthoi
average work week was unchanged in July.
The 0.8 percent overall decline left the
192.1 percent of its 1967 ba^e of 100.
The dip followed a 1.4 percent jump in theiri
June, the biggest since December 1986. Theindo
off a revised 0.7 percent in May.
Economists use the leading index as an advanft
nal of a recession. It has declined three timesina
six to nine months in advance of all eight rects
since 1948. However, on four occasions the it
declined three months in a row and only slowergrc
but no recession, followed.
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