European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday october 8,1989 Bush defends handling of Panama crisis Washington not president Bush Friday defended what he said was his decision not to allow american military forces to bolster the coup attempt in Panama tuesday against Gen. Manuel Antoni Noriega. I think the record will show that there was never a Chance to have him handed Over to the president said of the panamanian Leader. Members of Congress including several republicans have criticized the Bush administration s handling of the failed Pana Manian coup saying that confusion among officials Cost the United states an Opportunity to capture Noriega. The general who is accused of aiding drug smugglers is wanted in the United states on Federal conspiracy and racketeer ing charges and apparently was held briefly tuesday by rebel forces. As he emerged from Walter Reed army medical Center Friday afternoon after hav ing a cyst on his Finger removed Bush de fended his actions you know i reviewed All the information and i Don t Sec anything now that would have had me make a different Deci Sion then and i think the Senate and the House once fully briefed will but sen. Sam Nunn a a. Appeared notto have been fully convinced after the administration made its Case Friday to the sen ate intelligence committee and aimed services committee Nunn contended that the administration had failed to plan for the possibility that members of the panamanian army might heed Bush s Call for the overthrow of Noriega. I do not believe people on the ground had Clear policy guidance from washing ton Nunn said. We had a Public policy but no real plans for our people on the ground on How to proceed if it , who serves on both the Intelli gence and armed services committees said the problems were not what happened on tuesday but with what went indicated that the american Intelli gence system had gathered Large amounts of information but that it was not Clear that the crucial reports made their Way to senior officials in time. We did not have coordination of Intelli gence activities on the ground or Back Here in Washington Nunn legislators attending the joint ses Sion said that defense Secretary Dick Che Ney and Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff also appeared and essentially repeated their previous accounts asserting that contrary to the claims of Helms , the United states was never offered the Opportunity to take non a into custody. The officials reportedly also said that the administration did not encourage or help plan the officials said thursday however that . Troops in Panama had attempted to help the rebels by blocking two routes Norige might have used for panamanian general apparently used a third said that the confusion Over whether Noriega was offered to the United states has clouded the reaction. There was a report that he was offered tour military and they would t take him he said. Well that simply in t i would like to Sec him out Bush said but think any commander i chief must have the lives of american Citi Zens and of american soldiers Foremost i mind when he makes a Noriega foe takes Refuge at Vatican Mission Panama City Panama not the Leader of Panama s democratic opposition has taken Refuge in the Vatican diplomatic Mission Here diplomats and supporters said Friday. Guillermo Endara sought temporary Asylum thurs Day night after soldiers ransacked his offices and briefly detained him and 12 associates. Several times earlier in the Day government agents in civilian clothes fired in the air and prevented visitors from entering the political Headquarters according to witnesses. While the soldiers were tossing furniture files an telephones around the storefront Headquarters thugs with clubs chased journalists away stealing cars equipment and Money from several of them and beat ing an associated press photographer. Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega the panamanian Leader outlined a Campaign against his enemies in a speech thursday apparently in reaction to a failed news Brief Trost warns against fact sitting . Nava forces Hington up a Jim. Carlisle , the chief of . Navajo operations who is Schedu Coso visit the soviet junion this week said Friday he is wary of inc Wing naval forces in a .-Soyictarrhircductiqfagrccmcnt. One key fact Tanderes any argument against cutting . 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He assailed the United states for supporting the coup attempt and asked How can we have a democracy when we re under such pressure opposition leaders said they believed that Noriega moved against Endara who was the apparent Winner of the presidential election in May to Force an end to hunger strike that he started on sept. 20. Plo vows help to free 2 hostages a palestinian guerrilla spokesman linked the abductions to a lebanese shiite moslem Hijacker imprisoneds1don, Lebanon a the Palestine liberation organization will spare no Effort to free two Swiss red Cross workers taken hostage in the latest in a series of abductions blamed on a rival palestinian fac Tion a Plo spokesman said. Masked gunmen shoved the two Swiss workers into car Friday morning and sped into a palestinian Refu gee Camp outside this port City in Southern Lebanon police reported. In victims were identified As Emmanuel Christen 32, and Elio Erriquez 23, orthopaedic technicians at an artificial limb Center operated by the International committee of the red Cross in Sidon South of of Lebanon s armed factions claimed responsibility for the abductions. Gorbachev from Page 1 very close partners and we will solve our problems an struggles together Gorbachev told about 1,000 East Ger mans at a Monument for victims of re slaying Here several onlookers shouted. Speaking Friday night to the party Hierarchy and hundreds of invited guests Gorbachev said we have heard demands such As the .s.r. Should take Down the be Linwall and then people could believe in the soviet Union s peaceful Aims. Our Western partners should understand that questions regarding East Germany Are not solved in Moscow but in in a Clear reference to opponents of his reforms Gorbachev said those who grasp the impulse of society and base their policy on that have no reason to be Erich Honecker the 77-year-old who has run the coun try for nearly 20 years used his own speech to reaffirm the hard Tine and condemn International efforts toward the destabilization of the Public Welcome for Gorbachev appeared subdued in comparison with his enthusiastic receptions in the United states West Germany and elsewhere. Most people allowed on the downtown motorcade route were chosen by the first time in recent memory East German Tele vision did not carry a live broadcast on the soviet Leader s Berlin was decked with huge red banners flags and posters praising accomplishments of the communist nation founded oct. 7,1949. Church sources told the associated press that heavy police forces with clubs tear Gas and water Cannon patrolled through the country s major cities following the clashes. The sources said about 200 people had been arrested and at least four seriously injured in the clashes lat thursday. Up workers needed to crush opposition Magdeburg North of Leipzig police clashed with about 600 people who joined in a silent March through the City after a Church prayer late thursday. There was Street fighting in Dresden two times earlier this week As mostly Young citizens tried to Board trains carrying other East germans to a new life in the than 47,000 East germans have turned their backs to their communist Homeland since mid september in a mass exodus unseen since the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961. A train carrying 633 East germans arrived in West Germany Friday from Poland the latest in a wave of East germans who took Refuge in West Ger Many s embassies in Poland and Czechoslovakia hoping for permission to come West. Weekend e. Berlin travel discouraged Ber Tif has . Officials Are discouraging americans Frorer in6jing to East Berlin this weekend because of East Germany s 40th anniversary. It. Col. George Norton a spokcsmafrhlh.? .comd in Berlin said Friday the travel adv issued because of the National Day what he called increased tension san All military Community to Easterlin Between have been can celeb. Officials Aici hooted that museums stores Eastern sector of the City would be closed. Traffic also will be blocked incl town areas where Large Jujj a statement i of of " Berlin also appeared East German military Partick Ufa Iliff Parade planned As part of the Celebration. According to agreements Between the original rid War ii Allied Powers non Allied military pres a alas the demilitarized status of the City
