European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday october. 1989 jamming of Voa draws Static in Congress Washington a the voice of America says it has taken care or a catch-22 situation in which its Broad casts to Angola were disturbed by a radio station run by  rebels. But rep. Mervyn Dymally d-calif., says he wants to know exactly what happened this summer when the voice of resistance of inc Black cockerel a Sta Tion experts say was set up by the Cia interrupted portuguese language Broad casts by the Voa. The  supported station that serves overseas listeners Dymally chairman of the House sub committee on International operations said last week hell Raite the Issue in panel hearings. I wrote a letter of pro test about it he said. The need is great for the Voa to have at this time unhindered and unhampered Access to its Consumers in Southern Africa Dymally said in a let Ter. The problem with the broadcasts is an outgrowth of the conflict in Angola where the rebels headed by Jonas Sevim by arc battling the soviet backed govern ment in Luanda. Sav Imbi who is visiting the United states this week receives american government Money to finance his group inc National Union for the total Independence of Angola known As Unita. Unita operates the Black cockerel resistance station which Gerald Bender professor at the University of Southern California said is a Cia supported Clandestine radio  initial reports first published in the Washington Post last month said the Unita station blocked 12 minutes of an aug. 18 Voa broadcast that included four minutes of a speech by angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Joseph o Connell a spokesman for the United states information Agency the Parent Agency of Voa said . Officials do not believe the Unita station intentionally fouled Voa broadcasts. We Don t consider it jamming he said. But the two stations used frequencies that were close to each other so the Voa listener could hear inc rebel station broadcasts at the end of the Voa pro Gram. You could hear their signature. It sounds like a rooster crowing he  eliminate confusion. Voa changed frequencies he said. Jardo Muckala a Unita spokesman in Washington denied the rebels interfered with the Voa broadcasts. But he charged that Voa s reporter in Luanda had prepared biased reports designed to imply the United states favored the an Golan  Connell said Voa has dismissed the notion the reporter is not objective. Behave been pleased with what he has done. We have not seen any Bias he said. 9 Noriega opponents arrested in Panama Panama City a Ricardo Arias Calderon a former opposition candidate for vice president and eight supporters were arrested sunday by the Panama Nian police an opposition coalition said. The civic democratic opposition Alliance said in a news release Arias Calderon and eight other members of his Christian democratic party were arrested while they toured the Countryside campaigning for the ouster of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega the country s Mili tary chief who controls the government. Adoc As the opposition coalition is known by its Spanish initials said the nine were arrested in the Western province of Vcra guas on orders of the Provin Cial attorney general for alleged subversive activities. We have received news indicating that or. Arias Calderon will be indicted during the night on charges of inciting civil disobedience subversive activities an Public disorder As Well As acting against the economic integrity of the state the news release said. It was signed by Guillermo Cochez and Arellano Lennox two Christian democratic party leaders. The party is a member of Adoc. Arias Calderon ran As one of two opposition vice presidential candidates in the May 1 National elections on a ticket led by presidential candidate Guillermo Endara. The government annulled the returns which showed the opposition winning by a landslide. A spokesman at the defense forces in Panama City said sunday he had no information on inc arrests and so did another military official in Vcra guas. Up to now we know nothing about that. We have no information said the duty officer at inc Vcra guas military Barracks about 190 Miles West of Panama City. No one answered the Telephone at the Vcra guas at Torney general s office. In a separate statement Endara called Arias Caldy Rqn s arrest another symptom of despair by the dictatorship of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega to re press the last vestiges of Freedom and democracy that remain in Panama Adoc led by Endara is mounting a Campaign urging people to delay paying taxes and Utility Bills to put economic pressure on the Noriega regime. The opposition is also telling people not to play the lottery or Gamble in casinos. Both the lottery and the casinos along with most of the country s utilities arc government owned. The no Riega Dom Natch government has been depending heavily on them for Money. The government has been Short of funds since the United states imposed Trade and other economic sanctions on Panama soon after Federal courts in Florida indicted Noriega on drug trafficking and Money Laun Dering charges in 1988. Endara was on the 12th Day of a hunger strike Sun Day in Panama City As part of the anti Noriega Campaign. He. Arias Calderon and his other running mate Guillermo Ford have demanded the government re Spect the results of the May elections. The United states refuses to recognize the Noriega dominated government. It considers Endara and run Ning mates As the legitimate leaders. Noriega has named his longtime Friend Francisco Rodriguez As provisional president. E. Germans from Page 1 nonetheless boarded the refugee trains in Prague. In addition there were reports that some East germans had jumped on moving trains As they passed through East German territory in route to Hof. From Hof the new arrivals were taken to reception centers at Clessen Schop Pingon and other locations. We made it we made it screamed one Young woman tears streaming Down her face As she was jostled in a teeming crowd of other refugees who were the first to arrive sunday. In All bavarian Border police spokes an East German couple Waves the West German Flag As they Arric from Poland. Man Klaus Pappenfuss said six train were bringing More than 6,000 refugees during the course of the Day. Well wishers handed out bottles of wine Champagne and fruit As the East germans got off trains in Hof. Red Cross volunteers also distributed Lea noodles up baby food and diapers to the Refu gee families. Many of the refugees quickly made their Way to a Bank of Telephone Booth sin the station in mostly futile efforts to reach relatives in East Germany. Most had Little or no West German Money and the few who did faced con Stant Busy signals from communist East Germany s overtaxed Telephone circuits. The East germans who showed up at the West German embassy in Prague sunday were like Many of the others who have fled West in recent weeks but stumbled into an entirely new strategy by the czechoslovak police. Since Early August when 20 East Ger mans first asked for Refuge in the embassy Here police had made no attempt to restrict Access to the building. They stood by and watched As East germans climbed Over the embassy s rear Fence at a rate of up to 30 people an hour. But by 6 . Sunday the police no longer were passive. They were denying All Access to the rear Fence and were checking the identity papers of anyone who tried to walk near the building s front Entrance. Sealing off the embassy however was not easy. It occupies the sprawling grounds of a 300-year-old czech Palace and is located in a crowded residential Quarter of twisting narrow streets and abutting courtyards. Besides East Ger mans there were thousands of residents of Prague strolling through the neighbor Hood to take advantage of a sunny Sun Day in the confusion the fleeing East Ger mans found their Way to the embassy front door where they sat Down and vowed not to move until they were Al Lowed inside. Another 200 or so Man aged to sneak into the embassy s Back Yard from adjacent buildings. The behaviour of the czechoslovak police meantime has angered the West German government. In Bonn sunday morning. Foreign ministry officials summoned the czechoslovak ambassador and gave him a formal protest note. We told him it was against the Vienna convention for diplomatic rights to restrict Access to an embassy foreign ministry spokesman Jurgin Chrobot said in a Telephone interview sunday night. Chrobot said the saturday agreement Between West and East Germany did not include any mention of restricting future Access to the embassy Here. There is no quid pro quo. There is no Deal. We never accepted that the in trance to our embassy would be blocked. This was a humanitarian solution Chrobot said. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev who has been pushing the reforms sweeping much of Eastern Europe will visit East Berlin this week for celebrations of East Germany s 4qth anniversary. His talks with East German Leader Erich Honecker Are expected to Deal with the exodus of Young people which has threatened the nation s already demoralized work Force. Moscow also criticized Hungary s actions last month although it so far hashed no comment on the East German decision to free the refugees from War saw and Prague. The decision came after hundreds of East germans who were allowed unhindered travel into neighbouring Czechoslovakia but did not have the necessary documents for Hungary began crowding into the West German embassy in Pra gue weeks ago. There they huddled in tents and cots in the embassy compound in Prague amid spreading disease worsening weather and a growing crush of people