European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday april 6,1989 Panama Calls us. Actions intimidation Panama City Panama a Panama demanded on tuesday that the . Government end what it called actions of intimidation and pay Over due taxes from Panama canal employees. The foreign ministry also accused the u med states of another aggressive and insidious political Maneu ver by cancelling  of the bilateral Panama canal commission slated for wednesday and thurs Day in Baltimore. The commission supervises the canal. Commission president William Gianelli announced the cancellation of the quarterly meeting on Friday saying that canal operations were undergoing a Crit ical period and that it was not advisable Tor canal administrators to leave their jobs Gianelli also accused Panama of refusing to Issue 1989 vehicle License plates to Many of the canal com Mission s 6,800 employees in retaliation for . With holding of the employee lanes. A ministry statement denied the government was violating the rights of canal employees and said it was Only trying to enforce Panama Lan tax Laws it said the failure of employees to obtain their plates is the exclusive responsibility of the Panama canal commission for having decided to discount the taxes and retain  the ministry also complained about . Canal pay ments thai have been withheld As part of . Pressure to oust Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Noriega Panama s de Facto ruler is under indict ment in the United Stales for drug trafficking and drug Money laundering. He has denied the allegations. The commission has withheld at least $22 million in canal employee taxes and about so million in canal revenues since the sanctions were imposed in March 19s8.under the 1977 Panama canal treaties the United states is to turn Over control of the waterway to Panama on dec. 31, 1999. World today swedish group to flood soviet Union with bibles Stockholm Sweden a an evangelical group will Send 12 million bibles to the soviet Union by 1995,. Until last year. Bibles were carried individually into the soviet Union according to Josef Westby chairman of the swedish organization known As bibles to All. But it s a different situation now Pes by told the Dagon newspaper. When we were in Moscow for negotiations. No obstacles whatsoever were raised by soviet  the bibles in russian and ukrainian will be distributed by the soviet ministry for religion  program which will Cost Al 3 Millton will be funded by members of swedish evangelical congregations Westby said. Rift leads Romania to Call envoy Back from London London a Romania has recalled ambassador Stan Soare from London and accused Britain of menacing actions the government confirmed wednesday a government spokesman speaking on Condi Tion he not be identified further said state is believed to have returned to the romanian Capi Tal of Bucharest on tuesday. He said Soare left a note for the government accusing Britain of pursuing an Ami romanian policy and undertaking menacing revisionist actions with regard to the territorial integrity of to  _. Britain has frequently protested to Romani about curbs on human rights there most recently on March 19 when it also called for an end to the harassment of six lop romanian communists who had sent a critical letter 10 president Nicolas Ceausescu protesting his Lough policies. The government says it has no plans to with draw Britain s ambassador to Romania. Fire on the Rhine West German firefighters operating from a Rhine River fireboat Hose Down a Blue that broke out tues Day aboard the French Lour ship Alsace 1 near Cwi West Germany 25 Miles from the dutch Border. All 34 passengers and eight Crew numbers were rescued from the burning vessel. Six passengers had to be he pistil Izett. The cause of Ibe tire which badly damaged the Alsace is being . 1 in 8 soviet districts refused to elect anyone poll results show Moscow a voter in one out of every eight soviet parliamentary districts refused to elect anyone even though they had a Choice of Only one or two Candi dates according to official results released tuesday. The Tass news Agency released the Central election commission s final tally of the votes from March 26 elections for the country s new 2,250-Mcmber con Gress of Peoples deputies. One third of the new Congress will consist of deputies elected by the party and its affiliates Tass said that in 195 of the 1,500 geographical districts. Across the country no one got a majority of the Vole even though there were Only one or two candidates in those districts new electoral campaigns will be waged and a second election will be held May i 4, Tass said. Election results released earlier showed that in the first nationwide mull candidate election in 70 years voters rejected Many lop ranking communist party and government leaders. They included Yuri Solovyev a candidate member of the ruling politburo who ran unopposed in Leningrad. Among those who also suffered defeat were the Kiev party Leader and mayor the mayor and second leading party official in Moscow and a Host of regional party chiefs. In the majority of cases the reason for this is the striving of the people to quicken the process of restructuring More actively struggle with bureaucracy an command administrative methods of  election commission chairman Vladimir Orlov told Tass. Boris n. Yeltsin the former Moscow party chief who waged a anti establishment Campaign won his race with More than 89 percent of the Vole. Official figures released tuesday indicated that 87.6e or cell of those elected on March 26 were party Mem ers Orlov told Tass thai nationwide voter turnout was 89.8 percent.  9 of earlier for percentage of participation the previous mandatory measures practice previously were fully  Tass said runoffs will beheld in 76 districts sunday. 14 Hurt when Peru Jet crash lands Lima Peru a a burning peruvian jetliner crashed while Landing at a Jungle Airport injuring 14 of the 130 people aboard the Andina news Agency reported tuesday. It said the passengers and Crew scrambled from the Boeing 737 before it was engulfed. Some passengers suffered second degree bums or were injured when hey leaped from the plane. The Faucett airlines Jet crashed at 6 43 . Mon Day at the Airport in Iquitos 715 mites Northeast of Lima just As it was about to touch Down according to the government news Agency officials of Iquitos Airport blamed the crash on unfavourable climatic conditions and Strong tropical  Andina gave this account the Jet listed sideways 1500 feet from the runway and one engine exploded. The nose of the Craft rammed into the runway and both wings Tore off As the plane skidded along the Tarmac with some people leaping to safely even before it came to a Hall. Flames swept through the fuselage leaving it a Smol Dering  Agency said there had been to indications that the jetliner. Flight 302 in route to Iquitos from Lima had encountered earlier difficulties hunger strikers spurn Bonn mediation Bonn West Germany Dpi jailed members of the extremist red army faction have turned Down mediation1 by the Leader of West Germany s parliament and will continue a 63-Dav-old hunger strike even if it Means the starve to death by yrs said tuesday the lawyers representing the jailed Raf militants said the hunger strikers would Only give up their prison action  lobe grouped together in common cells is met. Red army faction members arc held in prisons throughout the country with other prisoners but the West German authorities have rejected demands that they be held together. The secretly organized hunger strike started two months ago with 38 jailed red army faction Mem Bers and sympathizers taking pan. The lawyers said tuesday that the left Wing extremists took turns in the action and that 12 of red army faction members were currently taking part in the hunger strike. Reiner Koch said his client Karl Heinz Sclitt o As Well As Christa Eckes had not eaten since the. Hunger strike started feb. 1. They will continue until their demands Are met even if it Means they starve to death he said at news conference in Bonn. Other lawyers said their clients were also prepared to starve. Dillwo 36, was jailed for life for a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm Sweden and Eckes 39, was jailed for eight years in 1984 for membership in the. Red army faction and illegal Possession of weapons. Koch said Dellwo iwas in reasonably Good health but can be expected to fall into a coma any  is reportedly in a critical condition