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A1 6 The Sioux City Journal, Thursday, August 24, 1 989 11 Colombia tic residents join ands in human chain i 2 i i $4 4 1 I i Ay i i i iii Finland jEsionla )f Latvia Panevezysi A Lithuania Jy- i soviet VilnluZ UNION poundV i 100 mlles i nabs drug pioneer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Police said they had caught a pioneer of Colombian drug smuggling Wednesday, but those who run the bloody, billion-dollar cocaine trade remained at large. The government declared its "firm decision to extradite" traffickers to the United States in the crackdown on the drug underworld that began after the leading presidential candidate was assassinated on orders of the cocaine barons. Police said they arrested Bernardo Londono Quintero, about 60, in a raid on his daughter's apartment in the Caribbean coastal city of Baranquilla on Wednesday. He offered no resistence, but a revolver was seized in the raid, they said. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Colombian cocaine business, which began expanding in the late 1960s, and was the only one to retain some of his power when the new, more violent generation took over in the mid-1970s.

Police also reported the arrest on Wednesday of drug suspect Helena Beatriz Rodriquez in the coastal resort city of Cartagena. They said she also was wanted in the United States on drug-related charges, but U.S. officials in Washington said they were unfamiliar with her. Also reported arrested was Rafael Orlandes Gamboa, for whom Bogota newspapers said a U.S. extradition request is pending with Colombian authorities.

Officials at the U.S. that was the number of Lithuanians that activists estimate have suffered repression under Soviet rule. In the southern Soviet republic of Moldavia, which also was absorbed by the Soviet Union at the same time, 10,000 people turned out in a heavy rain for a two-hour outdoor rally, said Moldavian People's Front spokesman Yuri Rozhgo. In this port city on the Gulf of Finland, the human chain began at a wind-whipped medieval tower where Estonian Premier Indrik Toome and other leaders headed the line of unity. "We are proclaiming to each other and to the whole world that we in the Baltic nations have never given up our freedom," Heinz Valk, a leader of the grassroots Estonian People's Front, said.

Lines of tens of thousands of solemn-faced Estonians, their hands clasped and four deep in places, stretched from the tower as far as the eye could see. "Vabadus," they said, passing the Estonian word for "freedom" down the line. The line was to snake southward through several cities, including the Latvian capital of Riga, and end in the Lithuanian capital. The chain climaxed a series of protests marking the anniversary of the Aug. 23, 1939, non-aggression treaty between Soviet Union and Nazi TALLINN, U.S.S.R.

(AP) Hundreds of thousands of Baltic residents linked hands Wednesday to form a human chain across their tiny homelands, a defiant repudiation of Soviet rule on the 50th anniversary of their lost sovereignty. Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians took up spots along a 370-mile route from the Gulf of Finland south to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius to demand that Moscow grant more freedom and admit it annexed their republics by force. Organizers said they expected 1.5 million people, about one-fifth of the Baltic republics' 8 million residents, to link hands. Initial indications were that more than 1 million took part. The official Soviet news agency, Tass, said 300,000 people joined hands in Estonia and nearly 500,000 in Lithuania.

In Latvia, People's Front officials said 400,000 participated. After decades of denials, Soviet officials have admitted that a secret deal between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler deeded control of the Baltic states to the Kremlin. But they maintain the nations voluntarily joined the Soviet Union. In Moscow, police arrested 75 people demonstrating in support of the Baltic residents. In Vilnius, about 5,000 people gathered in Cathedral Square, holding candles and singing the song that was Lithuania's national anthem 11 APPal Lyoni Route schematic 1 1 A -i 1 1 Ja i I i until Stalin's tanks rolled into Lithuania and the other Baltic states in 1940.

Grazina Staniute, a 15-year-old Lithuanian student from Kaunas, said the candles "symbolize those who died in exile. When we light the candles, they will be with us." Brone Surzilate, 58, one of those exiled under Stalin as the Communists set up a Soviet regime, held a card with the number 1.222,660. She said i 1 i ji Stations mum on price gap from page one 5 area towns because he pays more for gas from Amoco wholesalers. Other stations can buy from the supplier with the lowest price, he said. Two suppliers in Sioux City, Sioux City 66 Petroleum Products, 1719 Dace and Saunder's Oil Co.

3104 Highway 75 North, were either unavailable or had no comment Wednesday. The managers of Saunder's Oil Co. were out of town and Sioux City 66 Petroleum Products officials declined comment. unleaded to $1.17 Tuesday. The unwillingness of other gas stations to lower prices is a factor in keeping prices high, he said.

"I really don't know. People around here don't seem willing to come down (in price) so we're not going to come down until they do." Pete Block, owner of Jackon Street Standard at 14th and Jackson streets, said his prices of $1.16 for unleaded and $1.14 for regular have been steady for three weeks or better. He said his prices were higher than Justice and State departments, the Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration said they had never heard of him. Eduardo Martinez Romero, an alleged money manager for the Medellin cartel, was picked up during a weekend dragnet. Police and U.S.

authorities said they were trying to arrange speedy extradition, but that the paperwork might take a week or more. The arrests came during an antidrug campaign by police and the military prompted by the assassinations last week of a judge, a national police colonel and Sen. Luis Carlos Galan, an outspoken foe of the cocaine lords who was expected to be Colombia's next president. President Virgilio Barco established emergency procedures for extraditing traffickers wanted in the United States. The Supreme Court nullified the extradition treaty with Pizza treat Workers contacted at several Sioux City stations declined to give out prices over the phone.

Employees at the service stations were also reluctant to speculate on what causes the difference between Sioux City prices and prices in smaller area towns. A worker at Kenny's Apco, West Seventh and Cook streets, said the prices there dropped from $1.19 for Kids get free pizza from the Little Caesar's Love Kitchen when it visits the Gospel Mission Wednesday. The traveling kitchen gives pizza to low income families. (Staff photo by Mark Fageol) Iowa responds to prison needs, says Doyle North Central Correctional Facility, Rockwell City formerly the Women's Reformatory, the NCCF, constructed in 1918, has a capacity for 100 low-risk male offenders, and plans are under way to expand it to 125 beds. Clarinda Treatment Complex This correctional treatment unit opened in 1980 in a secure building on the perimeter of the Clarinda Mental Health Institution, which shares some administrative, maintenance, dietary and medical services.

It is a 120-bed medium-security facility for men who are alcoholic, mentally retarded, mentally ill or socially inadequate. Center This medium security unit opened in 1977 on the grounds of the Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institution, and has 144 beds. The main wing of the Mental Health Institution was converted to correctional use in 1984, bringing the design capacity to 528 inmates. Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison the state's maximum-security prison, built in 1839, houses repeat and violent male offenders, and has a design capacity of 550. In addition, there is the John Bennett Correctional Center, a 100-bed dormitory adjacent to the penitentiary, and two minimum-security farms a few miles from Fort Madison with a capacity of 130 beds, which are to be expanded to 170 beds.

Iowa State Men's Reformatory, Anamosa the largest prison in the state, on which construction began in 1872, is a medium-security institution. Its design capacity is 840. It also administers the Luster Heights Work Camp located in the Yellow River State Forest in an arrangement with the Department of Natural Resources. Its 60-bed capacity is to be raised to 65, with the help of an Iowa National Guard Construction Battalion. and rehabilitation programs.

"In Iowa, 86 percent of all persons sent into the criminal justice system are not in prison, they are on the streets, or in halfway houses, in community-based correctional facilities, on probation or on parole." The bad news Doyle sees is a new report from the firm which made recommendations to the Legislature on prison needs. That firm thinks Iowa will need 2,000 more beds over the number now being built. "I think the estimate is high," said Doyle. "But in any case, we are going to need more probation and parole officers than we have now." Overcrowding also is a problem for the women prisoners at Mitchellville. Authorities have been remodeling the facility to increase the present 100 beds by another 80.

There already are 186 female prisoners at Mitchellville, Doyle said. Other correctional facilities in Iowa: By Harvey M. Sanford Journal staff writer Iowa is responding to its acute need for more prison space, State Sen. Don Doyle, D-Sioux City, said Wednesday. "This year the Legislature provided that 150 beds be made available in Iowa communities," Doyle said.

"That would include 25 here in Sioux City, 10 of which are intended to accommodate those sentenced after three offenses of drunk driving. "I understand that negotiations have been ongoing with the private firm which built and operates the (community-based corrections) facility at 515 Main St. If possible, that firm will add 25 beds to its facility." In addition to the new community-based beds, the Riverview Release Center near Newton is getting ready for 100 more prison beds. Its original capacity was 96 men. The center prepares inmates of Iowa's correctional institutions for parole or discharge.

At the Iowa Medical and Classification Center at Oakdale, plans are under way to provide 125 more beds, Doyle said. The facility already has a 100-bed security medical facility and a 200-bed addition completed in 1984. The Oakdale addition includes 60 medium-security beds, and a 20-bed special management unit for high-risk female offenders, plus a 120-bed reception and classification center. All new inmates committed to the Iowa correctional system are received at the Oakdale reception and classification center. Doyle was among the legislators who helped establish the first unit built at Oakdale.

"Iowa has a different philosophy than California, which I understand is spending $2 billion for new prisons. But they sentence people to jail for writing bad checks there. Here, we set up community-based corrections KTIV-TV being sold to Quincy company Peterson says IBP's next challenge in supermarket Washington in June 1987, after years of intimidation of the judiciary. At least 220 judges and other officials have been killed. Barco also authorized seizures of traffickers' possessions.

Police and soldiers continued raids Wednesday on mansions, farms, office buildings, restaurants and other property believed owned by the drug bosses. Carlos Lemos Simonds, the communications minister, declared Wednesday "there's a firm decision" to extradite suspects, but the U.S. bureaucracy must act quickly. He said Barco's emergency measures empower police to hold suspected traffickers for up to seven days without charges, but then they must be freed. Lemos also asked that Washington provide more aid for the anti-narcotics campaign, and added: "The other help we need is to lower consumption and demand in the United States." At his vacation home in Ken-nebunkport, Maine, President Bush said: "They might need certain technical assistance.

"They can use training for some of their forces police, for example." Bush said Barco made clear "that he was not requesting United States troops." Consultant doubts costs of operation from page one estimated, but quickly added that that is not his estimate of how much it would take at Central. He said he doesn't have enough information to make his own estimate of operating costs. "In our opinion, it would be irresponsible to commit to the renovation and remodeling of Central High School as a cultural center without development of a detailed and realistic annual operating budget and projected income as well as a determination of how the income gap will be met." Regardless of what is decided about the rest of the building, Morison said, he is convinced that conversion of the auditorium into a viable concert hall-performance center will not work and should be abandoned. The stage area would have to be completely rebuilt with a foundation extending to the ground floor to provide a fly tower with enough load bearing capacity to support riggings, sets and lighting equipment for the wide assortment of shows and concerts needed to make it economically feasible, he said. The 1,000 to 1,250 seats seats planned in the performance center is an awkward number that is too many for plays and not enough for musicals, major concerts and traveling shows, he said.

The 1975 study recommended a performance center with up to 2,750 seats. The wood risers in the balcony may not meet building codes and it is By Associated Press IBP next fight may be behind a supermarket meat counter instead of with union pickets, the chairman of the Dakota City beef and pork producer said. IBP Chairman Robert Peterson spoke to about 200 investors Tuesday at Omaha in a wide-ranging discussion of the company, its future, and its history of problems with unions at its Dakota City plant. Peterson said IBP's problems with the United Food and Commercial Workers union stemmed from the company's refusal to let the union dictate how the company will be operated. "That was difficult for a union that had come up through the 1920s and 1930s to accept," Peterson said.

"They tried to thwart that. We have had five contracts expire at Dakota City, and we have had five strikes. "I'm tired of it. I don't want it. But they aren't going to tell us for the sixth time what to do." Peterson said that he doesn't expect another strike when the current contract at Dakota City Quincy Newspapers publishes the Quincy Herald Whig and the New Jersey Herald, Newton, N.J.

The company operates WGEM AM-FM-TV (NBC), Quincy; WSJV-TV (ABC), Elkhart-South Bend, KTTC-TV (NBC), Rochester, and WWA-TV (NBC), Bluefield, W. Va. KTIV is an NBC affiliate. In 1980, KTIV was purchased by American Family Broadcast Group, which operates seven other network affiliated television stations. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Family whose principal business is insurance.

Rumors that the American Family Broadcast Group would be sold prompted an increase in interest in that company on the stock market, broker Dan Pecaut of Pecaut Co. said. "It was listed at 16 a few weeks ago and then it surged up to 18 and got as high as 19'8, fueled by rumors that American Family might be bought out," Pecaut said. "The company announced today these rumors were unfounded and that all they were doing was selling one television station. The stock drifted back down to 17." "Our employees are the best people in the world," he said.

"Our people at Dakota City don't want to strike. Our people have been misused at Dakota City because of the international union." But he said the next confrontation may come when IBP begins to distribute to supermarkets meat products in table-ready portions. "Five years from now, 10 years from now, our meat is going to go into the back of Albertson's (food stores), ready for the consumer to pick up and run through a three-second radar range, he said. There will be fewer butchers needed in stores in the future, he said. "The efficiencies, the slicing on an automated program, will offset all those people.

That's progress, and there isn't anybody in this world going to stop it," Peterson said. Peterson said he believes that the union will seek compromises "because if they don't they will lose all their butchers. We are not against unions. We are against anybody telling us what we're going to do." IBP plans to continue to expand and to retain its position as the largest beef and pork producer in the world, he said. "We're building new facilities with new techniques," he said.

"Because there is already more production capacity than there are animals, somebody's got to go," Peterson said. "Our goal is not to get rid of somebody. But you're going to see much consolidation in our industry. There are going to be fewer farmers; there are going to be fewer packers." Peterson said he expects IBP's sales to increase from $9 billion in 1988 to $10 billion this year, and to $13 billion to $14 billion in 1992. IBP kills 8.75 million head of cattle, he said.

By 1992, that will increase to 11 million. The company's hog slaughter will increase from 10 million this year to 20 million by 1992, he said. Peterson said IBP's beef slaughter market share will increase from 24 percent today to 30 percent by 1992, and its share of the fresh pork market will increase from 11 percent in 1989 to 25 percent three years from now. Television station KTIV-TV in Sioux City is being sold to a firm in Quincy, 111., that owns other television stations and newspapers, it was announced Wednesday. Quincy Newspapers Inc.

has signed a letter of intent to purchase KTIV from American Family Broadcast Group Inc. of Columbus, Thomas A. Oakley, president of Quincy Newspapers Inc. said. The transaction, which is for cash, is expected to be completed during 1989 following the signing of an agreement and approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

FCC approval generally takes around three months, Ron Johnson, KTIV vice president and general manager said. KTIV employs about 69 full-time and part-time people. The purchase price was not disclosed. Oakley said, "We are pleased to have KTIV join our broadcast group and look forward to continuing to provide Siouxland with the best in news, public service, entertainment and advertising." Oakley said he sees many similarities between the Siouxland market and other television markets in which his company operates. azowiecki to find jobs for Communists WARSAW, Poland (AP) Prime Minister-designate Tadeusz Mazowiecki indicated Wednesday he would find more spots in his government for the Communist Party, offering compromise the day before he is to be elected the East bloc's first non-communist head of government.

At parliamentary caucuses, Mazowiecki stressed it could be risky not to reach agreement with the communists especially when they still control the army and security police. Mazowiecki 's olive branch followed communist demands for a full coali regard very." There were signs Wednesday that both sides in Poland are nearing an understanding. Mazowiecki said it might be a mistake to offer the Communist Party only the key ministries of defense and interior controlling the army and the police that had been promised in the first stages of negotiating the historic transition to the East bloc's first government led by non-communists. "Pushing the Communist Party into total negation would be a trap for the country," he said. The publicity given the call appeared meant to stress the Soviet Union's interest in having a strong communist presence in Poland's next government, but also that the communists should reach an accommodation with the Solidarity-led coalition.

President Bush praised Gorbachev's position Wednesday, calling it "a positive sign." "There will be bumps in the road as these countries move toward more democracy," Bush said. "But I feel the statement I saw attributed to Mr. Gorbachev was very positive in this tion partnership role. He made clear that offering the party such a role was realistic. "One cannot today form a government in Poland other than a broad coalition having the support of all forces sitting at the Sejm," he told Solidarity lawmakers.

But he also said he could not afford to give the communists too much. "We cannot allow the political forces which I represent and which nominated me as their candidate to be pushed into being (merely) symbolic things," he later told an evening caucus of the lawmakers from the United Peasant Party and the Demo cratic Party the two minor parties in the Solidarity coalition. The remarks came one day after a 40-minute telephone talk between Polish Communist Party First Secretary Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in which the two agreed it was "impossible" to have a government without the communists.

The call by Gorbachev, also head of the Communist Party, was the first direct comment on the events in Poland. It was highly unusual for the Polish party to publicize such a telephone conversation, announcing it at a news conference. doubtful that there is enough support below to replace them with reinforced concrete risers, Morison said..