European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 operation just cause Panama Burns a . Helicopter gunner looks As Parton Panama City Burns wednesday. The fire was burning near he Pana Manian defense forces Headquarters. Officials worried Panama cleanup could be lengthy hostages May be used As ticket to get out of town by the los Angeles times Washington president bus said thursday an undetermined number of americans May be held hostage in Panama by Manuel Noriega loyalist who Hope to use them As a ticket to get out of  at a White House press conference Bush predicted that if the ousted dictators captured remaining resistance to the . Invasion would collapse and most hostages would be released. But he con ceded that some of Noriega s supporters might attempt to Trade hostages for Safe conduct out of the country once his Fate is scaled. The Pentagon said it was investigating about a dozen cases of american civil ians who were unaccounted for and maybe held against their will. But adminis Sands of tire Talion officials said there was no fir information about How Many american or other foreigners arc captives. We Don t have a count Bush said. And if there arc a lot of them we Don know about  eleven scientists and technician working on a smithsonian institution project on san Bias Island off Panama were released thursday after having been seized by Panama defense forces troops wednesday. Lbs news said that one of its television producers Jon my Crohn was still missing thursday night. He has not been heard from since he was abducted by panamanian gunmen from the Panama City Marriott hotel wednesday morn ing. Two other people seized with him were later released. By Susanne m. Schafe Washington a military officials fear actions by panamanian troops Loyal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega could Force . Troops to trans form their operation into a Long term guerrilla  fear that unless Noriega s sup porters arc captured and disarmed the could continue to threaten panamanian citizens and the lives of the 35,000americans living in the country or at the least offer a serious disruption to an return to normalcy at the Panama canal and elsewhere officials said  highly place officer who spoke on condition he not be identified was asked How Long he believed the strike Force of thousands of . Troops will remain inthe country. I Don t think anybody Here knows he  that the forces were going House to House thursday in their efforts to clean out the remaining Noriega loyalists in Panama City and that the could be forced to search the Countryside for the deposed general the official said it s not just a mop up operation  if . Military units might be facing a protracted guerrilla Battle i Urban and country areas in their search for Noriega the official answered yes. It very Well May  president Bush asked at a session with reporters whether he believed the intervention would become a guerrilla operation said i Don t think so add ing that Noriega has been stripped of his communications capabilities and the support of military forces that would allow him to mount an opposition in the  has t been in a Jungle in a Long time. And it s Tough living and he s Bee living High off the hog off the panamanian people. And so we Don t expect kind of Mountain guerrilla organization to arise reminiscent of that led by Cuba s Fidel Castro in the 1950s, Bush said. Cheney defense Secretary Dick Cheney in separate session with reporters said while major resistance from the Panama Nian military had ended he could not Rule out any possibility of such things As terrorist  s still a situation in which in arc arc ongoing conflict Wand  said Cheney said acknowledging the possibility of individual terrorist strikes and the Tak ing of . Hos , we Haven t resolved Al the potential situations where there May be americans being held Cheney  a Public briefing thursday defense department spokesman Pete William struck a positive note saying that the organized resistance. Has ceased Attis Point and that the objective of the Day was to support the establishment Ofa democratic government under the newly sworn and .-Supportcd presi Dent Guillermo Endara. Williams did acknowledge however that there was some conflict continuing with some members of the Noriega s dignity battalions his armed supporters in civil garb that remain in Panama  the briefing army Gen. Tom Kelly the joint staffs director of operations advised reporters that there was no time estimate available for when the in creased . Forces might withdraw. On Capitol Hill sen. Robert kaslcn.r-wisc., expressed concern Over a Long term  there is a beginning Middle and end to american military  it is far better than having this thing drag Ging put Over weeks and months Kas ten said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1949 Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur urged the . Government to press the soviets for an inquiry into the dreadful Fate of hundreds of thousands of japanese prisoners probably dead on soviet  30 years ago foday dec. 23,1959 president Eisenhower and King Mohammed v of Morocco announced in a joint communique from Casablanca that . Forces would be completely withdrawn from Morocco by 1963. 20 years ago foday. Dec. 23,1969 by a 381-2 vote the House approved a sweeping tax Reform Bill that would mean tax cuts for Al americans and a 15 percent increase in social Security benefits. 10 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1979 . Air Force cargo planes began transporting British military equipment from England to Salisbury Rhodesia to Supply British peacekeeping forces there. Oas disapproves of . / of reference Washington a latin Amer ican states voted Friday an expression of deep regret of . Military Force in Panama and urged an immediate end to fighting  vote after a Marathon emergency session of the organization of american states also called for the withdrawal of troops used in the . Action but it did not condemn the intervention outright and sought no timetable for the Ameri can troops to leave. A Resolution by Nicaragua to condemn the use of Force to oust panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from Power was not formally  Maisto the . Deputy Perma nent representative to the Oas called the final Resolution a mixed bag. We re a Little disappointed. It certainly was t an extreme Resolution but it s Little detached from what is really Hap pening in  Oas political Council voted 20-1 to deeply regret the military intervention in  Spanish language version of the Resolution distributed after the vote use the words deploy a prof Namenie which translates More closely to  but James Todd a spokesman for the . Delegation said the stronger Spanish language was a mistranslation Ofa Resolution drafted in English and he expected a clarification later in the Day. The English version was circulated and voted on. We re using the English said  Resolution noted the serious events in Panama especially the armed clashes resulting from the military intervention by the United states and the deplorable loss of lives and  . Ambassador Luigi Einaudi cast the Only negative vote on the motion engineered by Peru Brazil Mexico Colombia Uruguay and Argentina. The Resolution urged the immediate cessation of hostilities and bloodshed in Panama and the launching of negotiations Between the various political Sec tors of that  there was not a condemnation Sai Maisto. It was just an expression of the need for withdrawal of troop which snot unlike what president Bush has called for when the Job is  a . Attempt to term the invasion a military action failed with Only three votes among the 26 delegates who at tended the 17-hour debate and negotiation. Only Honduras and Costa Rica supported the United  amendment by Costa Rica and Guatemala to blame Noriega for the chaos and anarchy that prompted the . Move was also deflected by a 7-2 vote with 12 abstentions. Venezuela was the Only leading latin democracy to abstain from the final vote. Venezuela has urged the Oas to express some form of recognition to the .-in stalled government of president Guillermo  Oas said it reaffirmed that solv ing the crisis Panama is undergoing Attis time necessarily requires the full re Spect for the right of the panamanian people to self determination without out Side interference and faithful adherence to the letter and spirit of the treaties under which the United states is to turn the Panama canal Over to Panama in 2000.the Security of the canal is one of the reasons cited by the Bush administration for launching the  also failed by an 11-4 vote with two abstentions in an attempt Todd to the Resolution a mention that the Oas charter itself allows each nation the right of  said that once Noriega declared a state of War against the unite states the . Government clearly had the legitimate right of self defense