The World - News from Nov. 7, 1986

The Bolivian government offered a public apology to the Roman Catholic Church for a police raid on a convent in search of an alleged patch of marijuana. Instead of marijuana, anti-narcotics police found herbs growing in a garden when they raided the historic Convent of the Recollect in Sucre on Oct. 29. Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy sent a message saying he “deeply regrets the raid” to Cardinal Jose Clemente Maurer, Bolivia’s highest prelate. He also told Maurer that an inquiry has been ordered and promised that those responsible would be punished.