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February 17, 198 7 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2523 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CASTRO AND CENTRAL To be exact, Castro's involvement in the That Fidel Castro is quite aware of the AMERICA narcotics trade is no accident. Communist American dilemma can be noted from a leaders throughout the world use all kinds broadcast over Colombia's Caracol network of illegal and inhuman business to finance on Jan. 16, 1983. The interview with Fidel HON. JACK FIELDS the destruction of capitalism. Their tactic is went like this: OF TEXAS very simple: Whenever their con game is ex "Q: What should the United States do to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES posed, they loudly claim that their con demonstrate that it wants peace, the first science is clear, and pin the blame on "U.S. thing that it should do?" Thursday, February 17, 1983 imperialism." "A: They <the Americans> have had a e Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, Ameri There is irrefutable evidence that Castro's great experience in Vietnam on how to re navy was behind the transportation of at treat. (laughter>. I think they must first cans in general, and Texans specifical least 5 million methaqualone tablets and persuade themselves that they are losing ly, should take great interest and con 1,000 pounds of marijuana to Florida. That the war; that they are losing their hand. cern over the anti-American activities has not prevented CUban officials from re Their interventionist policy is being defeat of Communist Cuba and Fidel Castro. torting that the whole affair was a CIA fab ed: I think this is the first thing about As we hear increasing discussion of rication. which they should persuade themselves." normalization of relations with Castro, A North Korean ambassador to Norway The defeatist psychology-and that is and Sweden was expelled in the wake of a what it undeniably is despite White House we should remind ourselves of his dan huge smuggling racket involving liquor, gerous activities and influence in the would-be interventionist policy-is now cigarettes and marijuana. Interpol docu widespread in Washington, due in large part Western Hemisphere. Toward that ments showed that all North Korean diplo to State Department officials like Asst. Sec end, I insert in the RECORD the follow matic installations in Northern Europe, es retary of State Thomas Enders and his ing two articles from the Times. pecially in Copenhagen, Oslo and Stock Latin American desk. CFrom the Washington Times, Feb. 16, holm, served as smuggling centers. But the Whether Enders reflects the policy senti North Koreans kept saying they were slan ments of Secretary of State George Shultz 1983] dered, and the diplomat-contrabandist was CASTRO'S NARCOTICS TRADE is unknown to the writer. However, State promoted to a higher position-that of for Department mainstream opinion is, to put it <By Bui Anh Tuan> eign affairs vice minister. bluntly, to follow the Fidelista prescription Four close aides to Fidel Castro, including Six years ago, communist Vietnam made for retreat as desirable prudentialism. two influential members of the Central public the initial results of an "investigation The department's institutional memory Committee of Cuba's Communist Party, into war crimes committed by American im has turned Vietnam into the eternal buga were indicted recently on federal charges of perialists and their puppets." The United boo, even though Central America is some smuggling narcotics into the United States. States was charged with a dozen crimes, in what closer to U.S. security concerns than The report caused indignation, but not sur cluding that of narcotics trafficking. The was Vietnam. prise, because as Florida Sen. Paula Haw truth is that during the Vietnam war, most But there is no point in blaining Enders kins, whose people "have been the target of illicit drugs sold and used in the south were and the Latin American desk for our misfor Castro's aggression for many years," put it supplied by traffickers having ties to the tunes in Central America. this was "but the last of a long list of ac Hanoi intelligence service. The rot is to be found on Capitol Hill, tions by the communist dictator, which in China was a major supplier, too. Mengku Hsiaohsi, a pro-Soviet Chinese language where the big issue for men like Sen. Chris clude the illegal shipment of criminals and newspaper in Mongolia, once accused topher Dodd and his allies in the House of mental cases to our shores." Peking of operating heroin refineries in Representatives is not the future of democ As chariman of the Senate Drug Enforce southern China, and of planting poppies in racy in Central America but the wounding ment Caucus, Hawkins has called on Presi state farms in Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kwei of a U.S. serviceman in a helicopter over an dent Reagan to conduct a "reassessment of chow provinces. El Salvador jungle; not loyalty to those U.S.-CUban relations." Such reassessment is Due to the competition between commu Hondurans and Salvadorans who are com all the more urgent since propagandists and nist traffickers, the flow of illicit drugs has mitted to fighting a Communist uprising apologists in the media and on Capitol Hill not abated. Their sales in the United States and anybody who thinks it is anything else have begun reactivating the "normalization have exceeded $80 billion a year. The but a Communist rebellion also believes in of relations" ploy. Reagan administration has launched a the tooth fairy-but to a policy of neutral Is it time to lift the U.S. economic embar major effort to stop the drug flow. Another ism which means another country falling go and reestablish full diplomatic relations spectacular effort is sorely needed to find into the hands of Castroism. with Havana? Well, before answering that out how much of this $80 billion is being The rot on Capitol Hill is abetted by the question, let's consider the case of Chang used to keep Americans in a state of politi silence of important spokesmen for a tough Chi-fu, the notorious drug trafficker in the cal narcolepsy. minded foreign policy, one for which there Golden Triangle, an area with forests and could be popular support if only there were mountains bordering on Thailand, Burma CFrom the Washington Times, Feb. 16, as much political courage among the hard and China's southern province of Yunnan. 1983] liners as there is among Dodd and his allies The Thai government has posted a $25,000 as they press for a retreat from Central reward for Chang's capture. The United CENTRAL Alo:RICA-"Too BIG To DENY, Too America. States has encouraged Southeast Asian SMALL To WIN" Anyone who has followed Soviet-Cuban countries to step up enforcement activities, <By Arnold Beichman> foreign adventurism knows that the conse eradicate poppy crops, restrict the availabil The reason for the imminent Andropov quences of American defeat in Central ity of acetic anhydride, a chemical used to Castro victory in Central America and America and of an Andropov-Castro tri process heroin, and destroy clandestine defeat of democratic hopes for that embat umph would not be just local, leading-yes, "heroin refineries." tled area can best be summarized in a sen Virginia, there is a domino theory-to Cas To a certain extent, Castro is a Latin tence a Washington policymaker recently troite regimes in Honduras, Costa Rica, American Chang Chi-fu. What's more, the used privately in discussing the crisis in the Guatemala and so on, but rather that the drug syndicate of which he is the kingpin hemisphere: "Too big to deny, too small to consequences would be global in nature. is many times more powerful than the gang win." For if the United States couldn't safe of armed outlaws, who call themselves Shan What the sentence means is that while guard its own backyard-the Cuban exam United Army, in the Golden Triangle. Thus, the Reagan administration is sending mili ple is bad enough-in Central America, who it is contrary to American ethics to seek ob tary equipment to El Salvador, it is unable would believe that it could safeguard any literation of a Southeast Asian contraband to send equipment sufficient to ensure the body else 3,000 or 4,000 miles away? And for ist while embracing the No. 1 drug traffick defeat of the Castro-controlled rebels in how long would Mexico stand up against er in the Western Hemisphere. Central America. such a Castroite encirclement? A Rapid De- e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 2524 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 17, 1983 ployment Force for the Middle East? How all its rates and charges for transpor bating or refunding any portion of the about a Rapid Deployment Force for our tation of cargo between U.S. ports and specified rates. own hemisphere? foreign ports. It similarly requires the In addition to stating what the bill We simply cannot go on this way, half-in, half-out. Are we to wait until, as in South filing of any changes in rates that does, I think it is worth outlining its east Asia, we see what a Communist takeov would result in an increase in cost to a limits and making clear what it does er means and only then try to avert the re shipper. The law requires adherence not do: pression and totalitarian rule by-what? by the carrier to the tariff as filed and As a practical matter, the bill only Resolutions? Refusal to give foreign aid to prohibits rebates and refunds.

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