Show rrv' ffliwv rVVoC ¥ ¥ 'jliHT Szjt b ' in-'"--- ' ' '— ' -- S 'jvisj- — agj 4 4MM The Humid Jourriiil Loyin Ulili Monday Octobur SM Payo 5 IfKJfj World'! Nation’ Report: Drug ring didn’t funnel profits Two diug IOS ANUIIJS (AC) dealers cun Id mil luive liniino-- the d CIA-buckc- Contras in Nicaragua because they sH'iil nnisl of their money on high living and had investments the Log Anodes rimes reHrted today Noivin Menescs and Danilo Mlandon Have "well under $5000tr to the reliels lighting the Marxist Sandiuisla government in (lie l‘JHOx and wasied profits hy using drugs themselves an assoeiale ol the Iwo men told the newspaper "Not only was this the gang that that enuldn'l slay stiaighl ” said the assoeiale who insisted on anonymity 'Hie lepoil is the latest to lollow a San Jose Mereury News series that said the dealers sold Ions ol San I ruucisco-ure- a cocaine to Ixis Angeles street gangs and tunneled millions in drug piolits to a ( I guerrilla army The three-par- t series called "Dark Alliance” published in August hy the Mercury News alleged that Contra assoA-ri- m ciates trafficked drugs in the United Stales couldn't shoot stiaighl this was the gang 'Hie series has prompted investigations hy the ( IA Justue l)cjiilmrn( and lluiisc Inti lligrmc ( ommillee I lie senes Inggeicd widcspicad angel in the Mu k romimiml) ovci whether the CIA was dneetly icspmisihlc lot the illicit eiaek Unite although it lies ei makes that explicit ehaige Ihe limes simy said the associate ol the Nicniugiinn paii had access to their hooks timing the cnily I'JKOs A second siiiiicc coiiohoiulcd the estimate Ihe pnpci said Menescs ami lilamlon who weie civilian leadeis ol an anti communist com instj-galin- g mando gioup iiiii hy the CIA consumed so much cocaine themselves that they neai ly defaulted on what they owed to Colomhian supplicis the nsviciile told Ihe T imes Intense competition in the tocaine Hade and had investments also kept a lid oil how much they could send the Con Has lie said lilaitdon now an infoimaul tin the Diug linfoiccnienl Administration told a Icdcrul com I his biggest customei was a ctack dealer who sold cocaine to sheet gangs in the I ox Angeles aiea Cubans count the cost of Lili SANTA Cl AKA Cuba (Al) (ionalo Hernandez stood knee deep in (he water that was Hooding his ruined oops and like lens ol thousands of other ( iihaus look slock of Ihe damage wrought hy lluriicunc lili At fiist Cubans were relieved that lili did not strike Havana directly or kill anyone when it lore across Ihe island I'riday Mut hy Sunday Ihe extent of Ihe damage was sinking in Otficial Cuban damage e rcxrts indicated that Ihe hurii-c:m- might have caused serious hat m to an economy already severely strained hy the collapse of Cuba's socialist trading partners in I VKV and J WO Uprooted utility poles and I :lds ruined houses and damaged sugar mills hear witness to Ihe power of lili the first major Hurricane to punish Cuba since Kate struck Hooded sugar cane in l‘JH5 lili passed southeast of Mcrmuda and moved today into Ihe ojk'ii Atlantic where it was exK'cled to weaken Cuban officials said today they were sending emergency supplies of food and construction materials to seven provinces hardest hit hy lili Agriculture Minister Alfredo Jordan said Sunday that it would take more than a year to return to production levels recorded at the end of September "It will Ijc a heroic task" he said "far greater than that we undertook alter Kale" Hernandez's wife agreed lamenting that their rice crop was completely lost its kernels whipped from the plants hy I ili's lM) mph winds and blown into a lake of mud left hy torrents of rain “So we have no seeds to plant next year" Margaiila Cruz said Hernandez is a "machctcro” a cane cullci who has his own plot on a cooperative outside Santa (Tara 155 miles southeast of Havana T he couple's wooden shack was Hooded hy two feel of water when lili lore away half Ihe asbestos roof A mattress and cushions were set on a cactus hedge surrounding the home drying in the sunshine "Ninety percent of everything we planted this year is finished finished” Hernandez said jerking his head toward sugar cane the govivrjipiil' goal of inci easing overall economic production by 5 percent Wly jivsl I'llll cjivt’ cjivi it Aii rcVAi7Nrv Vm SNOWMOBILE llu " investigator Knlierl Hancock said “We're still working on what that event wax" T he approach light struck by Delta Air Lines I light 554 was just 40 feel above the livei and about 100 feel Horn the stall of Ihe runway Hancock said He said (he jet's main landing - -- weie sheaied oil as the plane barely denied the mil way wall and landed with spuiks flying he jet skidded 2700 led down I Ihe runway and spun ISO degrees The plane which leaked M000 gallons of fuel in Ihe accident aiiived limn Atlanta in the midst of a violent storm Saluiday that brought diiving ruin fog and winds ol up to 00 mph to Ihe New Yoik aiea Mut Hancock said he couldn't "categorically'' blame the weather Passenger (ireg (iumbcl an NIK' spmlscuslei said Ihe plane di i fled to ihe light as it approached Ihe lunway “and then something hit hard “ I lien Ihe plane started to skid to the light the back end came out and to Ihe light and we ended up going down Ihe runway side- ways" Della ollicials did not immediately respond to a request lor comment Sunday AP photo just-maturi- SE Needham Jewelers fl-tlu- SNEAK PREVIEW! one under each wing geai Green bananas lie ruined in (lie water in Deadman's Cay on Long Island Bahamas Sunday after Hurricane Lili devastated the islands' crucial banana crop Initial figures indicate that plantations were ravaged more than I million innsol food lili blew away crops were dcslioyrd Castro collet beans and seriously damsaid some of the counliy's best aged Ihe tobacco harvest which citrus orchaids and plantain was just licgiiiiiiiig wlun you ATV & 1WC NTSB: Jet flew too low sheared landing gear on approach National struck the runway Transportation Safety Moard trees denuded of their branches green oranges ripped from trees and pools of water that drowned root and bean crops “Iifc was hard before After lili it's going to he a lot harder" he said A lot harder too for an agricultural sector damaged by a UJyl storm and an already ailing economy 1 ili has struck a “very hard” Cubans were preparing for Ihe sugar cane harvest crucial to "I don't remember seeing anything I cdciul YORK (Al') know to want why i iiivestigalois Della jetliner was flying so low that it clipped an uppioach light at la(iuardia Airxul and sheared oil its landing geai on a conciele runway wall T he McDonnell Douglas MONO was lowed to a hangar loi investigation Sunday a day after it landed on its belly spun around and slopied just slioil of I lushing May four of the bT people on the lliglit were slightly injured slid ing down an emeigeiicy chute "When it got laiily close to Ihe runway an event occurred and it bent to the ground plantain testified that Mcncscs like that and I think I’d rcmcmlici it i had" said lormcr CIA Diiecloi Robert (tales NI-- post-hurrica- blow President l idel Castro said Saluiday when he toured ihe most devastated areas in central Cuba including Santa (Tuia The hurricane came as lilandon uppinachcd him in I ‘M2 to piosise they raise money loi the Contras hy selling cocaine Menescs denied it "I vcivihing that Mlandon said almul selling diugs is a lie" he told Ihe Times Irom a Managua piison (ioveinmenl officials said Ihe CIA had no knowledge of any ding money liemg used to help the Contras Celebrating 100 Years of Business SE Needham Jewelers is V celebrating 100 years of business The celebration will last throughout the fall The store dates it’s founding hack to 1896 the year Lulu Holt Johnson bought out her partner a Mr Ownby Until that time the business was called Ownby-Johnso- n Jewelers Later when Lulu married Sylvan E Needham the name of the store changed to SE Needham Jewelers The store has been in the family ever since and all of the successive owners have carried the same name SE Needham md I’M Tlmrxiav Oct 21(li 1VW I’romonfon Center (HaJIrooni) 0-1- 0 7'(1S llexi Western Ogden Park Hotel 1110 'lyd')- Jo Wo 1 'J 11 f I M T t fi'-f- Li I'M I PG3LRFH£ iitt : t l - 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