European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Dodgers get free agent Hub a Brooks Page 26 authorized unofficial publication of the . Almeo forces vol. 48, no 250 saturday december 23. 1989 Good morning d 8693 a Panama fighting continues troops fac be dignity pockets rom hire report Panama City. Panama i a. Invasion forces completing the Conquest of Panama s military basis moved thursday into the rat aged streets of Panama City to Root out Cion. Manuel Anzoino Noriega s paramilitary battalions and end the Evans and looting that has d the panamanian capital. Late in the . Two i planes bombed san Migue Lito. A populated Low income neighbourhood and one of the strongest remaining pocket s of Resis Tance by troops Loyal to Noriega i was not immediately Clear whether the bombing attack caused civilian casualties of was successful in Flushing out the Noriega loyalists. Flares lighted the moonless sky and . Troops As tride armoured personnel carriers shouted Over Mega Navy team scouted Panama drug agents joined assault Page 3 . Dead identified returned Home Endara imposes curfew Page 4 mop up operations could be lengthy number of hostages unknown. Page 5 phones for residents near the Tina Ilas Garrison in san Miguelito to evacuate. Sporadic machine gun fire could be heard. The san Miguelito Force was believed to be com posed of fighters from the civilian paramilitary dignity battalions and other Noriega loyalists. Residents said people whom they believed to be panamanian combatants were fleeing to More secure areas and the poor were being evacuated. Machine guns rattled and explosions boomed near Cerro Pataconi a neighbourhood close to . Army communications installations. A cordon of . Troops ringed the nicaraguan and cuban embassies with armoured personnel carriers in Case the elusive Noriega was inside. Pentagon officials said . Troops had military control of Panama City. They said most units of Noriega s defense forces had fled into the Jungles and . Troops May be ordered in to follow them. They reported 21 americans killed. 208 wounded and four missing in two Days of fighting. Meanwhile looters swarmed the streets of the Capi Tal like locusts. Thousands from children to grandpa rents stripped store shelves Down to Bare Wood on Central Avenue. . Soldiers were too Busy with snipers and Small bands of armed Noriega loyalists to Challenge the loot ers Many of whom set up stands in alleyways and sidewalks to Hawk their wares to jostling hordes of an american Soldier walks past a poster of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega across the Street from the general s former Headquarters in Panama City. Christmas buyers. peddled designer brassieres French Champagne and Gucci watches at bargain prices. Ritzy stores on Avenida Espana. Panama s main thorough fare were stripped of goods. Look a Young Man said proudly showing a Gold watch. I bought it for $20. The Salesman did t even realize it is a figures for panamanian casualties were hard to come by. An official who works in the office of Leonardo Diaz medical director of the Santo Tomas Hospital said the Hospital had taken in so dead and More than 1,000 wounded. We have really lost count of the wounded she said refusing to give her name. She said Many of the wounded were civilians coming from areas of fighting see Panama on Back Page stops Low level flights in area of crash site by ran staff writer Ramstein West Germany . Air Force jets have been banned indefinitely from making Low level flights Over a 600-Square-Milc area in the Ludwigshafen Mannheim Region site of monday s collision of two f-16c jets. The announcement was made thurs Day by the 17th air Force commander maj. Gen. James e. Chambers who Mefi Fugh the crash occurred at an said the decision was based on conc Cirn affix Tudic above 10,000 feet it renewed for the residents of the Maxdorf Twat residents fears and objections to Low which was showered . Flying planes. Low level Hying has been debris ? crash caused classified As flights below 500 meters $200,000 Terf 300,000 damage to roof or 1,650 feet tops automobiles and other personal a previously announced suspension properly in the Maxdorf area but no " one on the ground was Hurt. V"a4fjesection of one plane slammed into the Market. A 29-year-old Steven , was killed in 1 the other Pilot maj. Kallman 36, ejected Safont a Josh pilots were Solh tac fighter of air combat tactics training also re Mains in effect said maj. Greg _ a 17th air Force . " he said Jyce in incr of Low level. rhe area is not tracked. A"""1 seven air Force Wing commanders Al still reviewing flight training proce urn Fajth said. Basic routine Fly ing is he said. The air Corri Dor for Ramstein Aff lydian. French and West German Canadian forces spokesman maj. When Paul Macdonald. He said the division has no plans to alter its flight schedules because of the collision. A spokesman for supreme head quarters Allied Powers Europe in Bel Gium said no other countries have announced a training suspension. In Maxdorf. Mayor Eckhard Leyser called Chambers decision a step in the right but he said the also Fly Over the Region. Ilij by Iii prohibition is not enough the 1st Canadian air div has Dis that monday s collision continued All its flying in Europe until occurred1 10,000 feet. Jan. 3. But such a suspension occurs Leyser said to have All every year around Christmas said a see flights Page
