European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Karl a la one scores career High 52 in jazz Victory see Page 21 the authorized unofficial full cation forthe . Ahmed Foh Cei Good morning vol. 48, no. 251 sunday december 24, d 8693 a Romania ousts dictator jubilant romanians wave to rebel troops Riding through the streets of Bucharest after they helped oust president Nicolae Ceausescu far left. Corneliu Manescu left will direct the provisional government until elections Are held. More troops ordered to Panama from wire reports the Pentagon ordered 2,000 additional troops air lifted to still chaotic Panama late Friday As president Bush shrugged off a latin american Appeal to end the . Intervention and declared that the troops would stay to do what is the decision has been made to bolster roughly 24,000 . Troops already on the ground trying to 3ucll the resistance being offered by forces Loyal toe posed dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega said a Pentagon source. The movement will be taking place in the near future he added. Renewed resistance in Panama City also prompted the Pentagon to give a new estimate of up to 10 More Days for american forces to seize Complete control of Panama s capital City. In Panama City meanwhile the senior . Mili tary officer said Friday that Noriega is believed to be personally directing a hit and run counteroffensive by armed civilians As he struggles to avoid capture. Speaking shortly after a nearby mortar and machine gun tire attack sent soldiers at the main Ameri can military Headquarters diving for cover at midday Gen. Maxwell Thurman commander of the . Southern come said the resistance . Troops were meeting was centrally As he spoke however the country appeared to be on the verge of anarchy As looters and roving gunmen still moved through the City and it was unclear whether any channels still existed for Central control to be exerted. Panama City a City of 1 million was littered with garbage Glass and rubble As looters plundered stores unmolested by troops or police despite a curfew or dered by newly installed president Guillermo Endara. In an interview with Abc to Friday Endara con ceded that he cannot walk safely through the streets of the capital but claimed to have the wholehearted support of the people. Underscoring the fragility of . Control Over events in Panama Noriega loyalists made a bold at tack on the National Assembly late Friday nearly assassinating the country s newly installed vice president before escaping. The official Ricardo Arias Calderon was leaving the National Assembly when members of a pro Noriega dignity battalion sprayed his car with gunfire. Arias was uninjured but two of his aides were wounded said an Arias aide Teni Deobaldia. Outside the City the commander of the key army base at David agreed Friday to surrender most of his 4,500 troops including two combat units that were key to no Riega s continued fight. It was not immediately Clear How Many of his troops would Honor the surrender. It. Col. Luis a. Del Cid head of the 5th military zone said he agreed to surrender his troops after holding Tele phone conversations with maj. Gen. Marc Cisneros see Panama on Back Page rebel soldiers civilians in Power Ceausescu flees from wire reports Bucharest Romania outraged romanians and rebel soldiers toppled president Nicolas Ceausescu on Friday in fierce Daylong Battles with troops Loyal to the soviet bloc s last dictator. Hundreds were reported killed in the fighting which continued Early saturday. The rebel army and the people were in control in most places with Only scattered resistance from pro Ceausescu Security forces said maj. Gen. Stefan Gusa the first Deputy defense minister who joined the uprising speaking on Bucharest radio. The rebels held the communications centers and arrested key figures from the Ceausescu regime including the Interior minister and the chief of the Saccu Ritac secret police. About 2 30 . Saturday Security forces opened fire around Romania s radio and television Headquarters about two Miles apart but rebel troops re pulsed the attacks. Dissidents and those trying to form a new leadership had been broadcasting from the to Center on Friday. Fighting also was reported late Friday night in the Western City of Timisoara. Where the revolt began on dec. 15, and in Romania s second largest City of Bra Sov. Yugoslavia s Tan Jug news Agency later reported that the fighting in Timisoara had died Down. The death toll in the fighting was believed to be in the hundreds in addition to the thousands of civilians reported killed since the Start of the unrest. 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