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Medellin paint factory is bombed; traffickers vow to kill more people

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A bomb strapped to an ice cream vendor’s bicycle blew up at a paint factory in Medellin on Thursday, and drug traffickers vowed to intensify their terror campaign by killing more people. The attack on the paint factory in Medellin, the heartland of the nation’s cocaine trade, injured eight people, radio stations reported. About 20 cars were damaged, a police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity. THE BOMBING followed the first night of a curfew imposed in Medellin and eight nearby towns. Police reported a series of bombings that caused minor damage in Medellin as the curfew went into effect Wednesday night. About 530 people were arrested through dawn Thursday for violating the 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. In Washington, the Pentagon set Sunday as the target date to begin shipping weapons, aircraft and other supplies under President Bush’s $65 million military aid package for Colombia’s war on drug traffickers. THE BOMBING of the paint factory in Medellin was the latest in a two-week wave of assassinations, arsons and bombings by Colombia’s drug traffickers in retaliation

Bakker sent to hospital for nervous breakdown; trial delayed

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Jim Bakker was committed to a mental institution in handcuffs and leg shackles Thursday after a psychiatrist reported the TV evangelist was hallucinating and cowering in a fetal position in his lawyer’s office. U.S. District Judge Robert Potter suspended Bakker’s fraud trial and ordered him to the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner for up to 60 days for psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. “PLEASE DON’T do this to me,” a sobbing, disheveled Bakker said as he was led from his lawyer’s office by U.S. marshals to the courthouse for processing of the commitment order. He curled up in a fetal position in the back seat “Mr. Bakker, I’m going to have to ask you to sit up, please,” a

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for a government crackdown on the narcotics trade. The radio networks Caracol and RCN said they had received telephone calls from an anonymous man claiming responsibility on behalf of “The Extraditables,” a group blamed for past violence linked to drug traffickers. “At nighttime, when bombs are placed there are few victims, but there will be more victims now because we will place the bombs at daytime when there are more people in the city,” the caller told the radio stations. UNTIL THURSDAY, most of the bombings have been at night, although an Aug. 24 bombing of a political party headquarters in Medellin killed a passerby. The same group on Aug. 24 issued a statement declaring “total war” on the government in response to a crackdown on trafficking after the Aug. 18 assassination of Luis Carlos Galan, a leading presidential candidate. The group apparently speaks on behalf of the 12 Colombians that the United States wants extradited to stand trial for drug violations. Colombia’s Medellin-based cartels are believed to supply up to 80 percent of cocaine that reached the United States. Drug lords are trying

deputy marshal said. After the paperwork was completed, Bakker, bound hand and foot, was taken to Butner to spend his first night behind bars since the PTL scandal broke. Bakker, who founded PTL, is accused of fleecing followers of his evangelical empire. HE WAS LYING in the back seat of a marshal’s car when he arrived, and a marshal held him on each side as he walked in a slow, stooped shuffle into the prison. DR. BASIL JACKSON, a psychiatrist who has been treating Bakker for nine months, told the judge that Bakker began hallucinating Wednesday after a former PTL executive testifying against him collapsed on the stand. The witness was revived within seconds and said he was laid low by illness. “Mr. Bakker reported that when he left the courthouse Wednesday,

to force the government to abandon attempts to extradite traffickers and have killed scores of officials. IN AN EFFORT to protect jurists, Colombia’s Security Council decided Thursday to keep the names of judges handling drug cases a secret In the last 10 years, 220 judges and other court employees have been killed. In Colombia, judges handle both the work of a judge and of a prosecuting attorney in questioning witnesses and suspects, reviewing evidence and deciding whether someone should be charged. Under the Security Council’s decree, judges will remain out of view when questioning witnesses or suspects. THE BOMB THAT exploded Thursday at the paint factory was in a box on the back of an ice cream vendor’s bicycle, which had left leaning against a retaining wall around a paint storage tank, Colombian news reports said. Just before the curfew went into effect Wednesday night in Medellin, men threw grenades at a Medellin country club building. Two grenades exploded, but there was little damage and no injuries, a police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity.

suddenly people outside took on the form of frightening animals which he felt were intent on destroying him, attacking him and hurting him,” Jackson said. JACKSON SAID Bakker’s condition worsened overnight, even after he was given Xanax, an antidepressant sedative. Bakker was not in court for the hearing. On Thursday morning, Bakker “was lying in the comer of his attorney’s office with his head under a couch, hiding,” Jackson said. “He was expressing thoughts that someone was going to hurt him.” “To put it in lay language, the man is stressed out,” Jackson said later. PROSECUTION AND defense lawyers are under court order not to discuss the trial outside of the courtroom. But during the hearing. Assistant U.S. attorney Jerry Miller

About the same time in Medellin, men firing shoulder rockets narrowly missed gasoline storage tanks belonging to the state oil company Ecopetrol, the police spokeswoman said. POLICE SAID THEY assumed the planned attacks were the work of drug traffickers. In the western city of Cali, a bomb exploded in a union office Wednesday night, police there said in a communique. The bomb did little damage to the office, which was inside a soda pop bottling plant, the police said. Meanwhile, leftist guerrillas resurfaced after a period of quiet during the two weeks of bloodshed by drug traffickers. Army troops and gunmen battled in the northern state of Cesar on Wednesday, and troops killed five of the gunmen, news reports said. The radio network RCN identified some of the men and quoted military sources as saying the five dead men were members of a paramilitary group. The Justice Ministry said earlier this year that many of Colombia’s paramilitary groups are run by drug traffickers. The Bogota daily El Tiempo said Thursday that the men were leftist guerrillas.

described the psychiatrist as a "hired gun.” Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Scofield said most pretrial psychiatric evaluations take about 45 days. But the judge told jurors who were not told the reason for the suspension in the trial to report back to court in a week. Bakker and other PTL executives are accused of diverting for their own use more than $4 million of $l5B million raised from followers who gave SI,OOO for three nights’ free lodging each year for life at the ministry’s hotels. IF CONVICTED ON all 24 counts, Bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined $5 million. Bakker’s wife, Tammy, told reporters her husband was very distressed by the collapse in the courtroom Wednesday of former PTL executive Steve Nelson, a prosecution witness. “I knew when I talked to Jim last night that he was in a terrible emotional trauma and I prayed with him and we agreed that we would trust the Lord,” she said outside her home in Orlando, Fla. “1 would like to tell the people, you be in our shoes and see if you can hold steady for 2‘A years,” she added. Defense attorney George T. Davis told Potter that Bakker, 49,

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Typical heart disease patient: Over 65, not working and not rich

ATLANTA (AP) Federal researchers painted a statistical portrait Thursday of the typical American killed by heart disease: a man over 65, not working, suffering from high blood pressure and listing assets of less than $50,000. Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, killed about 765,000 people in 1986. THE TYPICAL victim had been hospitalized in the preceding year and paid most of his medical bills with Medicare, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The NCHS survey examined 6,665 heart disease fatalities in 1986 in an effort to “collect detailed information not otherwise available ... the health and financial status of persons who died from heart disease.” Findings were published in Thursday’s weekly report of the Centers for Disease Control, NCHS’ parent agency. Key findings from the study: • 52 percent of those who died of heart disease in 1986 were male. • 81 percent were 65 or older,

kept saying he wanted the trial to continue but was “on the floor in a fetal position.” “IF MR. BAKKER is handled gently and carefully he may be able to proceed with this trial,” Davis said. The defense had tried to persuade the judge to allow Bakker to stay in a private institution. Last year, Mrs. Bakker, described a similar scene, saying in a fund-raising letter to supporters that her husband had stayed in a fetal position for hours after he was forced to leave the ministry in 1987. She made no mention of Thursday’s developments on the couple’s daily religious broadcast. AS JESSICA HAHN, the woman whose 1980 sexual encounter with Bakker led to Bakker’s downfall, said in a 1987 Playboy interview that just after the tryst, a fellow evangelist who had just come from Bakker’s hotel

New drugs coming into U.S., Senate panel told

WASHINGTON (AP) A new generation of narcotics known as “crank,” "croak” and “moon rock” is invading American streets along with smokable heroin that addicts blend with crack cocaine, the Senate was told Thursday. “The drug cartel, like any successful marketers of a product, are constantly working on new and improved models,” Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told a hearing of his Senate Judiciary Committee on new trends in narcotics. DRUGS TO TKAE hold in the 1990 s could include an exotic South American compound called “bosco,” and already addicts are purchasing a synthetic form of heroin known as “P-funk,” witnesses told the panel. Already in use are “crank,” the street name for methamphetamines; “croak,” a mixture of crack and regular cocaine; and “moon rock” or “speedball,” a combination of crack and heroin, witnesses told the panel. Blending crack and heroin staves off the suicidal depression, or "crash,” that crack smokers ex-

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and 26 percent who were 85 or older. Women were older than men, probably contributing to the finding that 65 percent of the female victims were widowed. Nineteen percent of the men were widowers. •87 percent of heart disease victims were not employed at the time of death. For women, the figure was 95 percent. • 54 percent had high blood pressure, 27 percent had suffered strokes, 23 percent had angina, or chest pains, and 21 parent were diabetic. • 75 percent had been hospitalized or put in a nursing home in the year before they died. • 35 percent received help from others in performing the basic tasks of daily life, such as walking, eating and dressing. • The most common family income bracket was $9,000 to $24,999, reported by 38 percent; 82 percent had family income under $25,000. • 70 percent had less than $50,000 in assets at the end of their lives; 19 percent had nothing, and an 20 percent had less than $5,000.

room said he was “lying in a fetal position in his room, saying he’s happy.” Jackson said his initial diagnosis was that Bakker was “actively hallucinating,” suffers from “acute depression” and has episodes where he is unable “to adequately judge and relate to reality.” Nelson’s collapse came the same day that lawyers confirmed that another key witness in the trial,' former PTL second-in-command Richard Dortch, was being treated at a Clearwater, Fla., hospital for an undisclosed ailment MARSHALS SAID the shackles that bound Bakker are standard procedure for moving prisoners. A few supporters were on handto offer encouragement. “He will come back,” said Loretta Mays of Jacksonville, Fla. “Jim’s a fighter. He’s not a quitter ... but it will take time.”

perience almost immediately after the burst of euphoria they feci when the drug hits the pleasure centers of the brain, said Dr. Walter Faggett, substance abuse services director at D.C. General Hospital. WILLIAM HOPKINS, director of street research for the New York State division of substance abuse services, said heroin remains in wide use but is being sold in new forms. One is called “his,” or heroin in a straw. The powder is tapped into the straw and the ends heat sealed, he said. Hopkins said peddlers now sometimes hand out business cards stating the street comer where they can be found. The cards sometimes contain partial phone numbers. “At the last minute, they add two digits,” he testified. Shopping by phone is then possible. “You can order drugs and a kid will deliver them to you on a bicycle,” he said. When anti-drug rallies are held on notorious street comers in “drug copping areas,” customers are herded by “stecrers” to sites a few blocks away where sales are going on, he said.