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The Battalion WORLD & NATION 9 Friday, September 1,1989 Source: limits in war against drugs will stay secret for security reasons WASHINGTON (AP) — Some sections of an emerging national drug strategy detail U.S. limits in at tacking drug traffickers, growers and users, but will remain secret lest narcotics peddlers benefit from the information, an administration source said Thursday. It had been learned previously that the revamped strategy Presi dent Bush will reveal next Tuesday will be tough on users, heavy on law enforcement and call for a new em phasis on treatment. Up to $260 mil lion in economic and military aid will be sent to Colombia, Bolivia and Peru to stop cocaine at its South American origin, sources have said. The administration source, dis cussing the strategy on grounds he not be named publicly, said Thurs day that portions of the document will be classified. “This would include any informa tion that would give an advantage to the narco-traffickers,” he said. “It’s a war, and you don’t give all your plans to the enemy. You don’t Moldavian people protest language compromise MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of people in the republic of Mold avia surged into the streets of its capital Thursday night to protest a legislative compromise that will keep the Russian language a part of their everyday life, activists said. Members of the southern re public’s legislature voted to sub stitute Moldavian — similar to Romanian —for Russian as the language of government and eco nomic affairs. But they ruled that both Russian and Moldavian could be used in everyday life. “The people are scandalized. We need only one language,” said Vasily Nestase of the pro-Molda- vian People’s Front, speaking by telephone from Kishinev, the capital. Nestase estimated tens of thou sands of people took to the streets outside the theater where the deputies had met, and he played a tape recording of the shouting masses. He said hundreds of police armed with clubs had formed a cordon around the building. “If this decision is not reversed, we will start a general strike,” he said. The next step, he said, is seces sion from the Soviet Union. “We are not a legal part of the Soviet Union,” he said, pointing to the Soviet annexation of Mold avia from neighboring Romania in 1940 under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, which also put the Baltic states under Soviet control. The legislators had been seek ing a compromise that would pla cate both Moldavian nationalists and Russian immigrants. The Moldavians are trying to shed what they see as decades of in fringement on their rights. The Russians feared they would be forced to learn Moldavian and went on strike at 200 enterprises in protest. want the narco-traffickers to know what the limits are,” the source said. “We can’t let them know how far we would go before retaliation or how far before we pump more money in.” As as example, the source said, the United States would not make public the government’s possible ac tions if assassinations continued against judicial officials in Colombia, where drug traffickers have killed scores of officials and vowed total war on the authorities currently con ducting a major crackdown there. *■ The source said the plan’s sections on intelligence operations also will be classified. The document that Bush will un veil in his first nationally broadcast address from the White House draws from suggestions submitted to drug control chief William Bennett from agencies ranging from the Na tional Security Council to the State Department. Sections of the plan will remain classified that deal with precise areas of drug operations and strength of U.S. anti-drug forces overseas, the source said. Some portions dealing with strategies at home also will re main under wraps. The plan attempts to lay to rest the political infighting among the various agencies involved in combat ing drugs. Sources say it calls for an increased role for the military, com- miting troops to more training of overseas forces and advising but stopping short of direct interven tion. The strategy, according to sources, delineates the overseas op erations of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the State Depart ment, which runs drug erradication programs, and the CIA, which gath ers intelligence data. OSHA establishes rule for worker protection Do you want to have a good start? Do you want to cut your study time in half & double your reading speed? 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