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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, August 7, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 1987 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Cit ii is fit a. Is Rumi v s-.&. Ufi tvs to j uhf few retail a newest one sweeper and its skipper cmdr. Robert s. A was stands with then Vij $ newest mine sweeper the Avenger in the i wis where i i at Sturgeon Bay i win built. Raw is will 1 command of the 224-Fwrt-Lortj nid stip Tettimer. I is one of 14 new mine Swetten being built to n place lining ships. Five opposition leaders face rest in Panama Panama City Panama a fug Reading member of an opposition coalition Weru Elered a a cited wednesday after the Justice Toper said documents seized at the group s o Tice ipe owed it was conspiring to overthrow the govern i a pro government  a  linking the . And issador to the opposition group called the Nari Oart civic . The . Embassy termed inc Pao a report a lie Justice minister Rodo Jaf Chiari said the govern ment is seeking an  to close the National civic crusade s office Ahe group was formed two months ago by 107 to Metal parties labor student and professional groups Joeking the ouster of Gen. Manue Lantonio Noriega it defense forces chief and Strong in behind the Jive moment of president Eric Arturo Delvalle a Civ Feln. There wry a whole plan to overthrow the govern ment and shall Tell you thai we Are going to be very Lough  i gaming this since the crusade has Vic lied y penal code and ail the Laws of Panama Chiao Irold a news conference. Will i quenches Chiari added. He called the news conference at the Norney Gener Al s office hours after police and Security agents raided the coalition s Headquarters in the chamber of com Merce building. Attorney general Carlos Villelaz who was present at the news conference showed reporters some of the documents seized which he called highly  later a spokeswoman for the attorney general s of fice said in a Telephone interview that warrants were issued for the arrest of five coalition leaders. The attorney general s office said the arrests had not yet been made. The spokeswoman Clorica Centella identified the five As Aurelio barns president of the chamber of Commerce industries and agriculture Gilberto Mallo a former president of that chamber Rafael Zuniga the chamber s Legal adviser Eduardo Viii Arino president of the association of business executives and Roberto Brenes the association s vice president also wednesday Panama City mayor Jilma Noriega de Jurado said she was denying thursday to press for Noriega s resignation. She Saida Banning the rally to preserve Public order lotions Between Panama and the United slates have a Asl rained since the Start of the unrest. Organized More than a month of almost  in Panama City after june 8, when a Mccern a tired top military officer publicly accused Nori Fiir to omillion. Election fraud and in vehement in the Cwg of Noriega s predecessor and apolitical opposition Kubu. Retired col. Robent Scaz her Acra Noriega s for Mer second in command a bind Noriega was involved in the 1981 death in Wane crash of longtime Leader Gen. Omar Torrijos Alferie 1985 murder of political opponent Hugo Spadafor Diaz her rom and 45 other pop lever arrested in police raid on the colonel s Home Las Kek. Most re main in custody. Over the weekend inc government club Ted tha Diaz her Acra in a deposition retracted his Ace it ions against Noriega saying he had no evidence to them. Riti a  my by this government under Ulster police keep Eye on pro Ira group from . Belfast Northern Ireland up police arc keeping labs on a group of 50 american Ira supporters dubbed terror tourists by Proi Siam politicians As hey conduct an 11-day"frt-finding" tour of Northern Ireland auth Orilien said thursday. A police spokesman said they want 10ensure that Irish american lawyer mar Ting twin prohibited from entering the British ruled province because of his pro Irish Republican army Siangc does not break the ban As a propaganda Stum during the tour. Donning disguises he slipped across the Border with the Irish Republic in 1984 us 1983. Police killed a youth with a plastic Bullet during a riot that erupted when they tried to arrest him in 1984 As he attempted to Pipcak at a pro Ira rally in roman Catholic West Bel fast. Calvin 37, is the publicity director of the american based Irish Northern Aid committee. The group is known by its acronym no raid and each year it sponsors a Northern Ireland tour for members. Britain accuses no raid of supplying Money to the outlawed Ira which is fighting to end British Rule in mostly protestant Northern Ireland so it can be United wild the Catholic Irish Republic. And in 1981, the . Government charge Lonc of no raid s founders with conspiring to Supply guns to the guerrilla group but be was acquitted of the Hare. Calvin denies Graid supplies Money to the Ira but says it raises $300,000 in contributions annually to help the families of imprisoned Ira Freedom  a spokesman for sinn fein the Ira s political Wing said 52 no raid sup porters Are on the bus Lour attending workshops and learning Aboul life under the British  Peter King the comptroller of Nassau county just outside new York also arrived in the province wednesday to speak at a pro Ira rally scheduled for sunday. A police spokesman did we keep tabs on the no raid Lour. In Che past the Ira has liked to display its weapons to impress the americans sometimes getting on their bus and displaying their guns on a country roads the spokesman said. And Martin Galvin has been known to Pul in appearances even though he in under an exclusion order from altering the province. So we keep a general Eye on them. To them a a romantic thing but the support they give helps finance Ter  politicians pledged to re Taining f Roi Eimani domination of the province lash out at the misguided sup port by sentimental Irish americans for he Ira and one has dubbed them the terror tourists Galvin in a Telephone interview from new York recently said he would no seek to nuke an appearance in the prov Ince during the current Lour which ends aug. 11. But he said the tact the Grilii have such things Ai exclusion orders shows How repressive they Are and Haw they seek to censor free  it occupying Ibe i counties of Northern Ireland and brutalizing nationalists catholics and they justify their actions by calling the Ira terrorists he said. But Ira volunteers tre Freedom fighters. As american we should stand up for human right us oppose repression whether it s by the  
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