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Drug agent wounded
1.A PAZ. Bolivia (API - A U S.
Drug Enforcement Agency
agent was wounded when anti*
drug policemen and DEA
agents were ambushed by drug
traffickers in the heart of Boliv
ia’s cocaine-producing region,
U.S. Ambassador Robert
Gelbard said Tuesday.
Police and agents were on a
routine patrol in the Chapare
coca-producing region when at
least 20 heavily armed traffick
ers fired on them, the ambassa
dor told The Associated Press.
The Chapare is in the center of
Bolivia, about 250 miles east of
I .a Par.
Policemen returned fire and
at least one trafficker was
killed, the U.S. official said.
The ambush occurred Monday
afternoon but poor communica
tions from the remote region
prevented the news from reach
ing official circles until Tues
day.
The ambush was the most se
rious confrontation between
traffickers and Bolivian police
and DEA agents in recent years.
Traffickers also fired on IJ.S -
donated helicopters that were
sent in to rescue the wounded
agent, who was shut in the arm
and leg but was not seriously
hurt.
The traffickers utilized sub
machine guns in the ambush.
At least two Bolivian police
men also are missing.
Bolivian police units have
been mobilized in the area in
the effort to capture the traffick
ers.
Chinese execute nine
BEIJING (AIM - Nine people
wore executed in the south Chi
nese city of fjinton and four
others wen* sentenced to life
for nibbing passengers on long
distance buses, an official
newspaper reported.
The executions were the lat
est of a yearlong anti-crime
campaign that Amnesty Inter
national says has seen at least
500 people executed
Two county courts on Mon
day sentenced the 13-member
gang for 37 robberies in a 10
month period, the Canton
based Yangcheng Daily report
ed.
The highway bandits robbed
98 passengers of $36,544. Thir
teen people were stabbed dur
ing the robberies, said the pa
per, seen Tuesday in Beiiing.
Ringleader Gao Shiming was
responsible for 26 robberies,
during which he injured throe
people, the paper said.
Gao. Lin jinquan. Lin
Guanghong. Fan Tiansheng
and five others were sentenced
to death and executed. Four
other gang members were given
life senlences, the paper said.
Executions in China are usu
ally carried out with a bullet to
the head.
Haitian elections slated
PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti (AP) -
After scrapping together funds
and convincing politicians it is
safe to campaign. Haiti's Elec
toral Council set Dec. 16 as the
date for presidential and mu
nicipal elections, an official
said Tuesday.
The elections have been post
poned several times. They were
last set for Nov. 4. but the Elec
toral (knincil had to drop that
date because the impoverished
government couldn't provide
the money to organize the vot
ing.
Last week, the Haitian gov
ernment came up with $4 mil
lion The government will get
an additional $1.5 million
through the U.N. Development
Program and the U.S. govern
ment. West Germany and
France have made pledges as
well.
Jean Casimir, who heads the
Electoral Council, said the
Canadian government con
firmed paper to be used for bal
lots would arrive in Haiti the
First week of November. With
out Canada's contribution of
the costly, imported paper, the
election date could not be set.
he said.
Many leading politicians had
refused until recent days to par
ticipate in any elections organ
ized by interim President Ertha
Pascal TrouiHot, who was ap
pointed in March. They
claimed she was unable to con
trol the corrupt and violence
prone military.
Alleged assesain charged
BOGOTA. Colombia (AP) - A
judge operating in secrecy has
charged Pablo Escobar, leader
of the Medellin drug cartel,
with last year's assassination of
a presidential candidate during
a campaign rally, the court said
Tuesday.
Colombia's now president.
Cesar Gaviria, has said Escobar
would be extradited to the
United States if captured.
Escobar was charged with
planning and ordering the mur
der of Luis Carlos Galan, cut
down by automatic weapons
fire as he prepared to deliver a
speech in a poor Bogota neigh
borhood on Aug. 18. 1989.
The killing provoked then
President Virgilio Barco to be
gin a crackdown on drug traf
fickers that developed into a
bloody war with the cartel.
The name of the judge order
ing Escobar's arrest was kept
secret lest he be murdered, ac
cording to a communique from
Colombia's federal court sys
tem.
in the last nine years. 228
judges and other court employ
ees have been slain, mostly by
drug traffickers who could not
bribe or threaten them into si
lence.
Escobar also has been
charged in the March 1989 kill
ing of leftist presidential candi
date Bernardo jaramillo and in
the December 1987 slaying of
Guillermo Cano, owner of the
Bogota daily El Espectador.
He also is wanted for plan
ning a car bomb explosion
which killed 63 people last De
cember in front of the secret po
lice headquarters of Gen. Mig
uel Maza Marquez.
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