European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes monday october 2,1989 Thurman takes command from wire reports fort Clayton. Panama Gen. Maxwell Thurman took Over saturday As head or the . Southern come which controls All . Forces in Central and South America declaring that the United states is committed to democracy in although he did not mention Panama s Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega whom the United states has been trying to oust since february 1988, Thurman said the United states will not recognize a regime that maintains Power through Force and violence at the expense of the panamanian Thurman took Over from Gen. Frederickw Erncr who is retiring after a 34-year career. Thurman 58, had been commander of the army training and doctrine come in fort Mon Rcv va., since july 1987. He has been a commissioned officer for 36 years. Extradition planned Bogota. Colombia Colombia a Trabuc a second drug suspect to by Timpo the country s la rust newspaper said a urday. See related staff Page 8. The the Justice Nulf mistry on Friday told the suspect Toa Helen a Odriguez that she would be extradite a Ujj United states to fac charges in Florida. In Ecuador said Evaristo Porras Ardila a alleged Levdar of Colombia s my Dullin drug Cartel had been vesled and will be so a Colombia after an instigation is comp cd. A press spokesman for off aplomb i an embassy said Porras Ardila is want Lucy the United states on drug trafficking charges. Lebanon lawmakers meet talk. Saudi Arabia the speaker opted anon s a Diamont told the Assembly saturday that it has who inc but to find a of of end the nation s l4-Ycak�Cleofblc speaker shiite moslem told the deputies inv wire to resolve their differences would Jaff total loss of Hope in the devastated Cumry pc fighting has been halted by a Frap Fruce. A Christia Stind moslem Law Marks gathered Inthis mor main resort for their fix Mccuing in Moo Man a year arc divided Over Tel Jires Cnoc syrian troops in Lebanon and mos Mac ands for greater Power. Berlin Airt of s body drop re enacted 40 years later Bykens falstaff Writa Berlin an air Force Argo plane re enacted the Berlin Airlift s drop saturday and veterans of the i stoic Effort to save West Ber liners 40 years ago Isuf Butch chocolates to about100 children. Capt. Douglas St Ari of the 37th tac Airlift so at Rhein main a Cost Germany piloted a c-130 that dropped a dozen parcels by Parachute onto the Field at Tempel Jot Central Airport As hundreds of Airlift pc trans family members and Berlin citizen watched. Stewart j 5s accompanied on the flight by the original Cady bomber retired col Gail Halvorson. Then a Utu tenant Halvorson first dropped Candy by mint Turc parachutes to the hordes of children watching British and american pilots in their 15 Mon Effort to Supply Berlin during the soviet blow add of Western sectors of the City. In saturday veterans of the Airlift distributed Andy bars and other treats to More than 100 excited children from Ferlin orphanages and youth groups. A Tempelhof Rocc Tipp for the Airlift veterans saturday night ended a Flea Klong 40lh-anniversary tour by the americans. Wjk during a ceremony at the 8$rlin Airlift memorial a few hours after the re enactment. West Berlin mayor Walter Momper said Thero lift was an Effort that guaranteed he Fri conf of the cily. We could not anticipate the extent of International Soli Darity that the Airlift created. I Momper told hundreds of onlookers that the cold War must be forever past and that Berli should become a Region of peace and Good nigh wreaths were placed at the memorial at to Mecl Hof to Honor the 77 people who lost their lives Wir ing the Airlift. \ the Berlin Airlift began on june 26, 1948, aft the soviets Cut off Access to the City s Western Sec tors by the time it ended on sept. 30, 1949, More than 277,000 flights had delivered 2.3 million tons of food Coal and other supplies to the bar liners. Refugee from Page 1 Freedom Freedom Many of the East germans wept and embraced one another at the handsome baroque embassy com plex in the heart of the czech capital. We made it we made it they called to journalists outside the spiked Fence. They had been living under tents in rudimentary conditions worsened by cold Rains and a mass of mud and by the soaring number of incoming refugees. Genscher told the East germans that he first train to West Germany would leave at 8 . Local time saturday and the refugees began walking out of the embassy heading for Prague s Liben train station. Genscher said he had discussed the ref Ugee crisis at the United nations last week with the foreign ministers of czech Olova Kia Poland East Germany and the soviet Union. But he declined to give details of the talks. We agreed on Complete discretion he said. In East Berlin the news Agency adn reported in an Effort to end the untenable situation in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw the East Ger Man government has arranged to expel to West Germany the East germans illegally staying in these embassies by train through East German Czechoslovakia has a common Border with West Germany but Poland docs not. The rail transit through East German was viewed by political observers in Bonn As a face saving device by which the East Berlin regime could claim it was expelling the refugees from its own Terri tory rather than watching them flee through other communist countries. Czechoslovakia like Hungary has a Accord with East Germany to refuse to let East germans Cross its territory to the West without proper credentials issued by East Berlin. On sept. 10, the hungarian govern ment decided to suspend the pact in order to allow thousands of East Ger mans in refugee Camps there to depart for West Germany without exit visas. That action angered the East Berli government but the communist govern ment in Budapest evidently believed Thad More to gain from Western countries by its humanitarian actions than it lost in breaking communist Solidarity wit East Germany. Since then about 25,000 East Ger mans have streamed across the hungarian Border into Austria and then West Germany. The Bonn government recognizes All germans East or West As its citizens. Bomb from / official Liberty from Page 1 his wife and 5-year-old son. A woman with a 5-year-old son who got an offer to emigrate to Canada said Erich Honecker s East German regime has been changing too slowly to satisfy the Young people. I wish All the old folks All the Best she said. But the Young want to live their own lives and that is Why they i could not travel at All i could not think my own Way said Marcus Thiele 23. If you have not lived in East Ger Many you would not understand what such a life Thiele said he was satisfied with the agreement reached Between the two Ger Man states because his trip to West Ger Many is Legal and All the refugees will get documents allowing them to come Back to East Germany and visit their families if they wish. It was not immediately known if the agreement is Only a one time pact cover ing the East germans who boarded the train or whether it will cover new cases. Very soon More East germans will hop Over the embassy Fence one West German embassy official predicted. Anyway Honecker s regime has Al most collapsed and no measures liberalizing or tightening in can save it he said. Been Hunt Ifird and that officials Are now risking his Alibi. Both purees said the animosity believed Ain Jed at Rogers Wai Fiot related tothe operation of the Vince incs nor was it coming from a disgruntled Sailor. In july Rpgers was Given a routine change of assignment and took Over As commander Ofa navy1 training group in san Diego that-1cacb.cs tactics to senior officers. After an initial pan Diego police an bomb squad investigation the Fri assumed jurisdiction Fri officials Avi the bombing Yas an it was clcar.&6m the prism was Jhc major ligation. The bombing had labelled Ai a probably act retaliation for Rogers de Down a franian Airliner o Rogers told Navy invest lived the Airliner was an tary aircraft preparing to at tha Pentagon later concluded the. Ship s Crew made crucial i led to the decision to shoot _. Airliner Rogers was exonerated Iver affirmed that of terrorism but inning that tar of the invest immediately if terrorism in Ion to shoo the persian he be Mill that the use tic Airliner failed to respond to repeated warnings from the Vincennes. A
