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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, December 20, 1989

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strikes d stricter Heathrow Security slows Christmas travel Page 3 d Alaska Volcano snarls air traffic Page 5 d saints upset eagles 30-20 sports Page 21 d Savannah ga., attorney killed by mail bomb Back Page authorized unofficial Puiu cation . Mid Force vol. 48, no. 247 wednesday december 20, t9 �. Of d 8693 a . Officer shoots panamanian Corpora seemed to reach Roc gun Panama City Panama a . Lieuten ant shot and wounded a panamanian car Oral near an american installation monday .   was the second shooting incident in  involving . And panamanian forces. A Southern come statement said that the am Roca was leaving a . Army laundry in the cur undo Aiea of Western Panama City when a uniformed Panama can signalled him to Stop and approached him. The area is near Southern come Headquarters and less than a mile from panamanian defense forces Headquarters. The statement said the . Officer tired when the panamanian appeared to reach fora  american responded defensively by pulling a weapon and fired two shots it said. The panamanian went Down then got up and left the scene. The extent of his injuries is unknown at this time.". Officials said the officer was being  capt. Moises Cortizo. Panama s chief of police said his office was investigating the incident. According to a command official the civilian Laun dry has a contract to clean uniforms for . Forces. In Washington a defense department official speaking on condition of anonymity gave this account a panamanian traffic officer signalled the americano Stop and approached his car. The panamanian pulled his weapon and the lieutenant did the same.", the american fired two shots and it was believed u c panamanian was wounded in a leg and an Arm. At the time of the shooting tensions still were High because of the killing of an american officer saturday near panamanian military Headquarters. Panama officials said monday the . Army command Panama had threatened an invasion. J5 american soldiers were put on Maxim Mottert after the officer was fatally shot and a  arrested and beaten saturday night not Foj from the Militar Headquarters of Gen. Manuel Monio Noriega the panamanian Leader. Of . Troopers in Batter year patrolled perimeter fences at their Basof conday. Panamanian troops blocked the Street if front of the military Headquarters but life appear woe Normal in the rest of the City. . And of Manian forces were holding a dialogue by mess Lajer panamanian it. Col. Arnulfo Castrejon told Nosner. He said the . Army South commander Gelli Marc Cisneros had threatened an invasion. He demanded an explanation. If not they would see shoots on Back Page sudden Snow fall eight Yew old Robyn Haynes tumbles from a skidding Saucer while sledding Down a Snow packed Street in front of her Home in Emporia kan., after a weekend storm of Snow and freezing rain. See Story Page 7. 2 f-16s collide Over Germany 1 of Pilot killed by Jensen a . Air Force it Jet was killed an another injured Mondt afternoon when their f-16c Jet fighters cited and fell across a wide area West t%3 North of Mannheim West Germany. Wreckage from one of the  into vegetable Market in the Maldon pwn Square but no one on the  local police said. The names of the dead Pilot and la injured Pilot were being withheld late monday. The injured Pilot who safely ejected from his aircraft was treated at the . Army Hospital in Heidelberg and released. Details of his injuries were not available. It was unclear whether the dead Pilot also had ejected. The aircraft were assigned to the 50thtactical fighter Wing at Hahn a West Germany and were on a routine training Mission when they collided at about 4 20 p.m., said Doug Moore a spokesman for Safe. The pilots were practising air to air tactics with an f-15 from Pitburg a West Germany. They were not Low level flying. That is not a Low level flying area Moore said. The crash interrupted the Silver anniversary plans of Peter and Margitta mopier of Maxdorf. They were returning from Mannheim when they saw their neighbourhood ringed with flashing Blu emergency lights. We did t think of an Accident. Rethought it might be a terrorist incident against the nato pipeline said . Arhe Mosiers who live about 200 me to from the crash site said debris was scanned throughout the area. One piece of Wrel Juge went through the roof of a Grec Hook other roofs and cars were damaged. We be Lily Here 19 years and cannot get acc Sotiria. To the planes mrs. Mailer said. Friedbert Jutzy Fuho lives across the Street from the  in Maxdorf said he was watching no vision when he Felt my House  Frehe plane bad fallen a few meters to the left it would see collide on Back Page Holiday Moil backlog Breaks floods med by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy just when military mail orderlies at the Naples naval support activity began to believe they were going to have it easy this Holiday season the deluge hit. Other mail units in the med will soon find them selves caught in the same flood that hit Naples Mon  cause officials have eliminated a backlog at Kennedy Airport that had dammed up mail heading from the states to Mediterranean military installations. The mail is usually flown from the mail Center a Kennedy to Rome or Madrid Spain on trans world airlines or pan american airways it. Paul Weishaup said monday. But the Christmas and new year period Means additional passengers Luggage and cargo for those carriers and less space for mail Weishaupt said. He said that on dec. 9 the mail Center stopped ship Ping mail on Twa and pan am and began shipping priority mail on a italia the italian National airlines. Priority mail is any letter or package that a sender pays to have shipped by the fastest possible Means. Weishaupt said mail usually takes an additional three to four Days during the holidays because of the increased volume. Letter mail therefore takes five to seven Days to go from new York to Mediterranean destinations. Mail to the Mediterranean is usually flown daily from Kennedy on Twa or pan am flights to Rome or Madrid where it is trucked to Naples or Rota Spain Weishaupt said. From those Points it is delivered to Shore base commands and flown to ships at sea  
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