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The drug was concealed inside 60 paint drums on the bed of a truck about 50 miles south of Matamoros, according to the Mexican Federal Roads Police, which made the seizure. A dispatcher with the Federal Roads Police said Monday the seizure occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday on Mexico’s Highway 101. The truck’s driver, 37-year-old Vicente Rezendiz Hernandez of Villa Progreso in the state of Queretaro, was arrested and turned over to the attorney general’s office for questioning, said Hector Arguelles, chief of the Federal Roads Police office in Matamoros. Arguelles said the seizure was made in coordination with the Federal Judicial Police and was the result of an investiga tion that began several months ago. Arguelles said international drug traf fickers, mostly from Colombia, have in tensified their operations and are hiring the services of Mexican middlemen. “We have information that these peo ple are operating on a very large scale here,” Arguelles said Sunday. “They have been shipping drugs by air, land and sea.” The chief said Rezendiz told authori ties that a man from the Mexican border city of Reynosa had paid him to transport a load of paint to the border. Police said they have the name of the suspect but would not reveal it. They also said they believe the Colombian co caine was flown into Mexico via Jalisco state, where it was loaded into the truck to be taken to the U.S. border. Congress rushes to finish drug bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Its election- year antennae in full working order, Congress is aiming to finish fashioning a something-for-everyone anti-drug bill and a $2.7 billion tax measure this week and then adjourn for the year. Both measures would satisfy a com pelling urge that overtakes lawmakers each election year: to chum out legis lation popular with a lot of voters. Work on both, however, is being in fluenced by another instinct that be comes unusually potent on Capitol Hill late in even-numbered years: the desire to flee Washington in time to campaign for re-election. Thus, when the Senate turns to the drug measure, legislators will be strug gling to finish their work quickly or going home with no bill at all. “Ninety-five percent of the good we’ll do with this bill is in the core bill,” in sists one of the sponsors of the drug leg islation, Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga. “If members from both sides continue to in sist on the more controversial amend ments, we won’t get a bill.” The drug bill is a two-year, $2.6 bil lion collection of programs ranging from an expansion of the availability of treat ment programs to a stiffening of penal ties for people convicted of distributing drugs to children. But lawmakers are lining up to offer an assortment of amendments that are so contentious that the bill just might be de bated to death. Senators and their aides spent the long Columbus Day weekend trying to figure out how to slash the number of amend ments the chamber will have to sort through, with Republicans ready to offer six to 10 amendments and Democrats poised to introduce more than 70 others. Among the more controversial amend ments are proposals to allow courts to consider illegally gathered evidence that police obtained in good faith; narrow the rights of prisoners to claim they were jailed illegally; require a waiting period for people wishing to purchase handguns and apply tougher sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa. An effort may be made to strip from the bill a provision that would allow cap ital punishment for drug dealers who or der killings, for hired killers who commit murder as part of a drug enterprise and for anyone who kills a law enforcement officer during the commission of a drug crime. Protests raise tension for Communist Party BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Communist authorities put more police on the streets and imposed unspecified urgent measures in Montenegro’s capital Monday, but protests fed by economic crisis and ethnic tension did not stop. Protest has swept much of southern and eastern Yugoslavia in recent weeks. Police used violent tactics for the first time over the weekend to disperse Mon tenegrin students and workers demand ing the dismissal of local Communist Party leaders. Workers and 2,000 students at Niksic, 30 miles north of Titograd, rallied out side a government building and in a steel mill where 2,800 workers were on strike for a second day, Tanjug said. President Raif Dizdarevic went on na tional television Sunday night to appeal for calm, warning of unspecified emer gency measures. Unrest continued Monday in Titograd, the capital of Montenegro 280 miles southwest of Belgrade, and the regional party leadership held an emergency meeting, the official news agency Tan jug reported. MSC TOWN HALL PRESENTS P A L 13 TUESDAY OCTOBER 25. 1988 G. Rollie White Coliseum 8:00 P.M. Tickets are now on sale. Good seats still available! Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office & Dillards in the Post Oak Mall For more Information call 845-1234 - Tickets are $14.00 Police said when the truck was stopped, they noticed Rezendiz started to get nervous while being questioned. in plastic. The total amount ofcjq seized was about 3,300 po said. They searched the truck and discov ered that 60 out of 150 paint drums in the back of the truck were stuffed with 55 nornids curb of rnr^ini* tiuhtlv wranned Police used clubs and tear gas to break up weekend crowds in Titograd and dis perse marchers in Niksic who were on their way there. The Titograd rally was an explosion of anger about hardships resulting from the austerity program the government im posed in May because of a $21 billion foreign debt and high inflation, which has soared to an annual rate of 217 per cent. The unemployment rate is about 15 percent. Tanjug reported, without details, that urgent measures were imposed Monday in Titograd. It said later 1,000 construc tion workers called off a strike after local party leaders promised to consider their demands. The cocaine, estimated to be percent pure, was turned overtoil tomey general’s office in Sunday night. Clocks symbolm growing changes for Baltic repubh TALLINN. U.S.S.R. (AP) — When Soviets set their clocks ahead next spring for an extra hour of day light, Estonia won’t switch with them. The tiny Baltic republic will no longer tick to the time in Moscow, 500 miles to the south, but to the time in Finland, 50 miles to the north. Thus, even the clocks will reflect the new spirit of independence among Estonians. Long viewed as one of the most progressive of the 15 Soviet repub lics, Estonia is trying in many other ways to set its own course. Its leaders hope to use their independence to demonstrate the effectiveness of Pres ident Mikhail S. Gorbachev's social and economic reforms. With the blessing of the republic’s Communist Party, officials are plan ning to open trade offices abroad, en ter joint ventures with Western com panies without Moscow approval, return to family farming, and even is sue their own currency that, unlike the ruble, could be traded on world markets. “The Communist Party of Estonia can be regarded as one of the front- rankers of the reconstruction drive. Estonia has been the initiator of many reforms,” Estonian party chief Vaijno Vyalyas said. Vyalyas, a Gorbachev protege, ap pears to have his blessing. But he and the Estonian activists leading the re form drive have been careful not to go too far, as they say the Armenians have done in their campaign for an nexation of a region in the republic of Azerbaijan. “At the bottom of our hearts, all Estonians want secession,” said Ulo Kaevats, head of the auditing com mission of the People’s Front, a grassroots organization pushing for reform. “But if we did put forward this question, we would have martial law, and we all know that very well.” The group’s blue, red and green emblem can be seen on posters, flags and buttons throughout Tallinn, Esto nia’s ancient seaside capital. State- run radio broadcast the front’s orga nizing conference live Oct. 1-2, and newspapers reported it on their front pages. Even in Moscow, the centrally controlled press, which has branded other such groups as “anti-socialist,” carried generally sympathetic reports on the People’s Front. The group, which formed in April and claims a membership of 60,000 in Estonia, approved a platform at its conference that, in effect, calls for Estonia to establish its autonomy from Moscow in all matters except defense and foreign policy. The People’s Front demanded de colonization and seeks local control of agriculture, industry and busi nesses without interference from “The Communisl Party of Estonia be regarded asoneol the front-rankers the reconstructioi drive. Estonia has been the initiator ol many reforms.” — Vaijno Vyalra Moscow. The group also want!Es man to be the republic’s officia! guage and proposes curbs ontii tlemcnt of non-Estonians, wtoi up 40 percent of the republic! ulation. The group also is after pd power. It has fielded candidate cal elections and plans to pump in legislative elections nextspni: So far, however, it has been ful not to challenge the Com Party directly. About 28 percent of its nest also belong to the party, andVyiii the party’s Estonian first seas sat through most of the front'sott zational congress, lending it at sure of official backing. In a Sept. 9 speech, Vyalyas the Estonian party’s CentralCou ( ide B Prot layers ay sc ; takeover!' angc ol the ision heati ioger tee that he endorsed the mands lor economic sdf-oflHlved, ment, “restoration of hi!!® one truth,” creation of Estonia: izenship. and preservation ofBs ans as the ethnic majority in fe public. To compensate for whatili 5 mistake of history, the People’s! wants Moscow to renounce the non-aggression pact with that led to the Soviet tonia and the other Baltic staE 1 Lithuania and Latvia. Unlit! smaller citizens’ group calledte Ionian Independence Party, ho* the People’s Front does not cal 1 return of Estonian sovereignty, Giving Estonia a measureof: pendence is not without risk, vict Union has more than Id alities and ethnic groups, their own concerns. The central ernment must perform a ancing act, showing tolerance(J : tional and ethnic goals whi the union together. The experiments could rewards for the republic i agricultural production inertasn foreign trade grows and if com goods appear in stores. But they also could benefit chev, who is trying to provetc servatives that giving Soviets responsibility and incentives»S prove life more than the central planning he blames fot)! of stagnation and political rep® PIZZA SALE! PERSONAL PAN PIZZA* qrjj READY IN 5 MINUTES.GUARANTEEB Just For One • Just For Lunch ,, Guaranteed 11:30 AM-1:00 PM. Personal Pan Pizza mikble'tlldM 5-minute guarantee appllea to our 2 aelection* on orient! 5 or le«« per table. 3 or less per carryout customer. r95< Personal I Pan Pepperoni i -Hut. Umit one per coupon Pr*«»rrt coupon v4>«n ordtrin?. 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