European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday december 24,1989 hold All Rudolph s Calls Colorado Springs Colo. A a listing in the local Tele phone Book for Rudolph Reindeer is actually an unlisted phone number at nearby fort Carson an apparent Christmas prank that has gone Little noticed for seven years. The Telephone number Complete with non existent address was As signed to Rudolph on dec. 16, 1982, said Albert Chavez a spokesman for us West communications. It was a humorous stunt i would guess Cha Vez said. It s kind of amazing that it s lasted this Long and was not brought to our the base has nearly 6.000 Tele phone numbers assigned to different departments As needed. Base spokeswoman Ann Smith said Rudolph a number has been assigned to a weather station in a trailer on the base. A newspaper Story about the listing Friday prompted a flurry of Calls to the weather trailer said sgt. Mike Howard another base spokesman. They have received about 100 Calls from children to Chavez said it s too late to get it out of the 1990 phone Book but twill be pulled from future editions. Time picks Gorbachev As Man of the decade new York a Mikhail Gorba Chev whose political and economic re forms in the soviet Union sparked a Revo Lution that shattered communist control of Eastern Europe was named Man of the decade by time Magazine saturday. The soviet president previously named time s Man of the year in 1987, was chosen because he is the Force be Hind the most momentous events of the 80s this year As world attention ricocheted from the stirrings of democracy in the . To the massacre in Beijing and the peaceful revolts in Eastern Europe it be came Clear that we were witnessing a sequence of events that began Well before 1989 and whose Impact would extend into the next decade perhaps the next Century the Magazine said. Somehow confining our Choice to 1989 seemed inadequate and thus we named Gorbachev Man of the the Magazine said he has accelerate history making possible the end of one of its most disreputable episodes the imposition of a cruel and unnatural order on hundreds of millions of berliners take advantage of gateways Berlin a thousands of East berliners poured through new Berlin Wall Border Crossings at the Branden Burg Gate on saturday for a final frantic Day of Christmas shopping in the Well stocked stores of the West. Other berliners headed for Home after singing and dancing late into Friday night at the newly opened Gate which has been transformed from a Symbol of Germany s division into one of East West rapprochement. Although visa free travel for West germans to East Germany technically docs not take effect until sunday there were few formalities at the Brandenburg Gate for those who headed East on sat urday. Throughout the night Friday a steady link of Metal against Stone accompanied the merry makers As hundreds of Souve Nir seekers chipped away at the Berlin Wall near the Gate. West German television periodically carried live coverage of the festivities Friday night showing the crowd dancing on top of the Wall popping Champagne corks and waving sparklers. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and East German Premier Hans Modrow met Friday for the second time in a week at a ceremony formally open ing two Border Crossings in the Wall jus North and South of the Gate. Although More than 20 Border Cross Ings have been Cut through the Berlin Wall since East Germany opened its Bor Ders to the West on nov. 9, the opening of the Brandenburg Gate was the emotional Climax the City s residents were awaiting. Panama from Page 1 they said two civilian dependents have been reported killed. In Panama City it. Col. Jerry mar Guila spokesman for the . Southern come said 139 of Noriega s fighters had been killed. Although the panamanian defense forces were neutralized quickly by the . Assault that began Early wednesday Noriega s hit and run dignity battalions Are increasing their activities of harassing attacks with Small arms and mortar tire threatening the civilian population and hostage taking he said. At the Pentagon one military official speaking on condition of anonymity conceded the ferocity of the dignity battalions had caught . Commanders off guard. And he said that despite the . Seizure of several Large weapons caches it appeared that the Noriega die hards still had Access to fresh arms. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was at the Pentagon on saturday to keep tabs on developments in Panama As Well As the bloody revolution that ousted Roma Nian dictator Nicolas Caus Csc. President Bush was at Camp David md., where he worked on a Christmas eve address to the american military men and women around the Globe. Noriega meanwhile continued to defy capture despite a rash of rumours As to his whereabouts. It s simply a difficult operation. There Are a lot of places to hide it. Gen. Tom Kelly director of operations for the joint chiefs of staff said late Friday. The administration also offered what it said was new evidence of drug dealings by Noriega including a 110-Pound slash of cocaine found near Noriega s private office at a military Barracks. He is clearly not Only a Narco trafficker but apparently he condones and uses the stuff himself said Gen. Max Well Thurman head of the . Southern come in Panama. The Noriega Headquarters were de scribed As opulent containing a movie theater Jade Art and jewels. . Troops also found a picture of Adolf Hitler in a closet and an assortment of occult and witchcraft paraphernalia according to . Officials. Kelly said the . Military is looking at re establishing the police pfc. Sammie Clark of Springfield mo., holds what is believed to be the helmet often. Manuel Antonia Nortiga the Only known four Star general in Panama. he said his commanders Esti mated that Clearing the City would Lake five to 10 , in Panama City said More civil affairs units were being brought in to help re establish civil systems in areas of economics Public facilities an such special functions As displaced per sons refugees and was scheduled to make a 5-min Ute radio address Over the armed Force network on sunday. White House spokesman scan Walsh said part of the message would be directed at service members in plans to visit soldiers wounded in Panama in a Houston Hospital on dec.31. Panama s new ambassador to Washington Carlos Rodriguez moved into the embassy on Friday after meeting with Bush. The keys to the Mission were turned Over to him by a state depart ment official in late afternoon. Congressional leaders received Brief Ings about the situation in Panama by the Pentagon stale department Anocia. Sen. Sam Nunn chairman of the sen ale armed services committee said the briefing had underscored his support forthe operation and said the administration made a very Strong Case for Nunn said that beyond the initial Rea sons for the military actions cited by Bush there was evidence that general Noriega himself. Has been acting irrationally beyond his Normal were made to Noriega through diplomatic channels that he could leave for a third country one that has no extradition treaty with the uni cd states Nunn said. He was Given an Opportunity another course not to have to con front the United states the senator said it was Clear the invasion was launched without a Good fix on no Riega s whereabouts but called it a rare flaw in an otherwise Well run operation. Ceausescu from Page 1 being worked out with Warsaw pact allies and that special working group was monitoring events in Roma Nia. He provided no other was fierce in Bucharest where the army and civilians who took up arms were defending state television and radio Headquarters and trying to capture the fire gutted presidential Palace from Ceausescu Dawn broke Over Bucharest anti Ceausescu sol Diers posted atop the to building fought with pockets of loyalists in nearby apartment buildings in a firelight that lit up the morning radio reported intense combat in Brasov the country s second largest City and fighting in another Central City Sabiu. It said More than 12,000 people had been killed i Timisoara alone since the uprising began dec. 15 with demonstrations in that Western gunfire continued saturday in Timisoara and residents reclaimed the streets alter the army appeared to establish Slaughter of demonstrators by Security forces in Timisoara touched off the quickest and bloodiest Revo Lution in Eastern Europe this year. Among the Timisoara dead were 7,614 people who were first detained and then executed said a Bucharest radio report which was impossible to of people Friday were digging up mass Graves discovered in the area trying to find the re Mains of friends and relatives killed in last weekend s crackdown. Three such mass Graves Are believed to be holding a Many As 4,500 corpses of people killed last weekend and during the week. There was no Independent confirmation of the number of dead. West German television apparently showing foot age provided by romanian to showed muddied naked corpses being dug out and placed on White sheets one after the other. All had their feet tied together with wire. A dead boy about 3 or 4 years old was shown lying on the ground. The radio also announced that All political prisoners had been released. Early saturday morning a tank belonging to the anti Ceausescu army units crushed Veteran French television reporter Jean Louis Calderon during the chaotic fighting outside the Central committee read quarters. Calderon 31, was reporting on the clash when hews run Over by one of about 30 armoured vehicles that entered the in the capital an associated press reporter saw rebel soldiers bring reinforcements of tanks an heavy artillery to direct against the presidential Palace. Taxis with red crosses rushed the wounded to Hospi tals. In the City s emergency Hospital about 50 bodies were piled in one room. Most were radio said military helicopters piloted by pro Ceausescu forces dropped leaflets in the City Cente that warned the popular forces to Stop before it s too new government had arrested key figure from the ousted regime including the Interior minister an the chief of the secret police who later went on nation Al radio to urge support for the uprising. 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