European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday december 25.1989 fierce fighting continues in Romania continued from Page 1 most of the night. At one Point fanatic Caus Csc sup porters reportedly appeared inside the building s corridors shooting and Stab Bing randomly before being subdued. The attack left at least three people dead. Two men were seen lying in the corridors with Stab wounds to the Chestand stomach while a woman s body bore Bullet wounds. People at the to building said no on knew where the attackers dressed in civil Ian clothes had come from. It was unclear whether they had penetrated army defences from the outside or had entered the build ing through a secret passage. Romanian radio said sunday that sol Diers found a vast network of Safe houses and secret tunnels crisscrossing the Cit that Ceausescu s forces had stocked with arms ammunition and electronic monitoring equipment in recent years. The tunnels some with entrances asked by nondescript panels in subway stations run for Miles linking Ceausescu s new Palace with party Headquarters and extending As far As a Lake in the Northern part of the City the radio said. Soviet state television reported with out elaboration sunday that Ceausescu and his wife Elena were captured sat urday at an underground Bunker about 30 hours after the couple were forced Toffee Bucharest by helicopter from their presidential Palace. Romanian radio reported later Sunda that Ceausescu s daughter Zoia also had been captured. Thousands of people have been killed since dec. Is when the defense of a de fiant pastor threatened with arrest turned into a mass anti Ceausescu pro test in said the Security forces opened fire on the Timisoara crowds in massacre that drove the oppressed bal Kan nation into revolt against Ceausescu who had ruled harshly for 24 years. The massacre also fuelled demands for re forms like those transforming the rest of the soviet the weekend fighting moved to the outskirts of Timisoara with army units apparently engaging fleeing Mccau a Csc loyalists the yugoslav news Agency Tangug reported. Timisoara Romania s fourth largest City is near the yugoslav order. Youths armed with clubs or Iron Barshad assumed control of the City and were directing traffic and performing other routine functions Tan Jug said. Romanian radio also reported fighting in Sabiu and Brasov both about 60 Miles North of Bucharest. In Bucharest sporadic machine gun and sniper fire could be heard near the downtown intercontinental hotel and a least two snipers were believed positioned on the hotel s roof. The army which has led the fight Over the last week against the Well equipped and fanatic holdout units of serum at Ceausescu s special police claimed control of All major strategic Points across the nation on romanian radio. Firefights raged Well into saturday night in Bucharest with intense Battles reported on the routes once travelled by Ceausescu Between his guarded private Villa and the communist party head quarters. The University Library and nearby buildings believed to be the stronghold of the Ceausescu loyalist forces were burning out of control and there were no attempts to put out the tires. Groups of teen agers armed with Auto Matic rifles and pistols they had taken fro the dead were trying to carry out a Ven Detta against the Securi Tate terrorists said Stephan Andreescu spokesman for the National salvation committee. These. Forces Are trying to escape and Are extremely dangerous he said. But he added that the army was in Complete control of the situation in the country. Close to Bucharest s downtown Post office pro Ceausescu men were shot dead immediately after capture saturday by forces backing the revolution. The terrorists arc believed to be hid ing in the subway and in secret under ground passages below the former presidential Palace Andreescu said. It will take Days before it is All the soviet news Agency Tass report ing from Bucharest said the resisting be Curi Tate units were retreating to cemeteries where there were rumoured to be hideouts among burial vaults and entrances to a system of secret under ground tunnels. The american embassy in Bucharest sunday was evacuating dependents and some staff in a Convoy to Sofia spokeswoman Agi Kuperman said. Meanwhile thousands of people were reported arriving in Bucharest from other cities and the Countryside. Roma Nian radio said most of them were flock ing to the capita to offer their help. Ion Iliescu a leading figure in the National salvation committee said in a broadcast Early saturday evening that Ceausescu was captured and would be tried. The committee communique sunday pledged that courts would mete out punish ments of the greatest severity to the Dic Tator and his former Iliescu s announcement of the capture saturday sparked a spontaneous outpouring of jubilation on Bucharest streets quickly dampened by fresh exchanges of gunfire throughout the City Center that sent passers by fleeing for cover. W. Germans forces from Page 1 Burg Gate. The new openings in the Wall arc at the place that symbolized the division of Germany. Until sunday. West germans were required to obtain a visa to travel into East Germany and were obliged to change 25 Marks Sis daily. Now West germans simply must show an identity card and fill out a Short form so the East Ger mans arc Able to keep track of the number of Visi tors. West German Border police reported that East germans greeted their West German neighbors with Flowers and a Welcome drink in numerous villages along the Border even before the new rules be came official at Midnight saturday. At Many Border Crossings East German Border guards simply ignored the rules and allowed West germans in before the new regulations went int effect. Still Border police reported sunday morning that the number of East germans heading West out stripped the number of West germans using their new travel freedoms in the other direction. But the number of East germans travelling to West Germany had fallen sharply in comparison with previous sundays. Border police attributed the drop to the fact that the stores were closed for Christmas. From Page 1 pledging allegiance to the Endara government before the uniforms ran out. Thurman said the first joint patrols made up . Troops and 160 former psf members who signed up Friday went to work sunday morning in Panama City. The government has matured rapidly he numbers of psf Are laying Down their arms and that s a Good in what Thurman called a Good news operation about 100 psf soldiers had surrendered in Colon Panama s second largest City after a fight that was resolved satisfactorily by american troops. Psf troops in David capital of Chriqui province along the Costa rican Border also Laid Down their weapons pledged loyalty to the Endara government and began policing the streets unarmed. Thurman said medical supplies and food Aid was expected to arrive sunday at Panama City s International Airport from the United Stales Spain colom Bia Al Salvador Costa Rica and the International red Cross. American officials have Given no accounting of civilian casualties but More Man a thousand panamanian civilians have been wounded according to local doctors and 200 bodies filled the morgue at the Capi Tal s largest Hospital. The fighting has turned thou Sands of panamanians into refugees. In one neighbor Hood alone the Al Chor Riho Section near Noriega former Headquarters 28,000 people were left homeless by the separate developments he said nine employees of Evergreen airlines who had been held hostage since wednesday were freed saturday and lbs producer Ron Meyersohn was released unharmed after having been kidnapped by pro Noriega forces. A previously unreported hostage Doug Mullen a get executive also was freed Safe and unharmed the . Embassy said. Meyersohn said his hands were tied during part of his detention but that he was not harmed. He said the ecuadoran embassy helped negotiate his release an that four people who released him surrendered and were taken into the . Embassy for questioning.. And panamanian officials said the new com Mander of the panamanian Force whose appointment has not yet been officially announced will be col. Roberto Anri Ijo a former police chief who remained Loyal to Noriega until . Forces invaded and deposed the general wednesday. Taking Over As his second i command is col. Eduardo Herrera Hassan a former ambassador to Israel who broke with Noriega last Yea Rand went into exile in Miami. I m going to do everything possible to re establish order in the capital which is the Only Point of conflict in the country Armijo said in an interview after re viewing a formation of the new Public Force. All were dressed in civilian clothes As they stood in formation on a parking lot in the cur undo . Housing area in the former Panama canal said the new Force is committed to civilian control. We re going to respect political Power he said. We consider that politics is for Alpine resorts fully booked despite Lack of Snow by the new York times Geneva Switzerland for the third year in a Row Mountain resorts in Europe s Alps were expecting a brow Christmas instead of a while one. In Switzerland virtually the Only ski ing is at Mcsons with ski runs on glaciers which Are open the whole year anyway and those with Snow making machines. But hotels Are filled and no one seem particularly worried. Generally even in the lower Altitude resorts the booking situation is astonishingly Good said Hans Keller of the Swiss tourist office. Resort officials and hotel owners say vacationers Reserve their accommodations for Between Christmas and new year s Well in Advance. They say there have been very few cancellations. And even if skiing is limited some vacation ers Are Happy just to sit in the Sun at outdoor cafes. Most resorts offer an array of alternative activities ranging from guided nature excursions to Fondue evenings Tohang gliding lessons. Many local tourist boards have halved ticket prices for ski lifts and Mountain railroads to allow visitors to hike or sight Sce. People won t spend their Money Onski lifts but they la still spend it on hotels Tea rooms Cinema said Daniel Max president of an association of inn keepers ski lift operators and sporting goods merchants in Chamonix France. The Only ones who Are suffering he said arc the lift operators and sporting goods stores. If there s no Snow people Don t buy new equipment he a jct. You hear people blaming All sorts of things like the global warming trend Orthe nuclear Power Plant Accident at chernobyl said Jean Brissaud director of the Chamonix tourist Board. But the meteorologists Tell us it is not at Allex a optional. Part of the problem is the popular expectation of deep Snow by Christmas. The idea of White christmases is a Bitof a fiction in the Apps said Cyril a bin a climatologist with the Swiss National Institute of meteorology. The Snow will arrive sooner or later he said. But no forecasters Are prepared to predict How this Winter will turn out. Last year it began to Snow heavily on Yin mid january and the possibility of a repetition worries innkeepers. After the traditional vacation week ends Jan. 1, people go to ski resorts Only to ski. If we have no Snow by the beginning of january that s when Well Start having problems Brissaud said. With billions of dollars invested in ski lifts hotels and Urban amenities resorts in the Alps have become More vulnerable to the caprices of nature. In former times people did t Recac like nowadays when there s such a lot of business involved said Joe Luggen director of the tourist office in Grindol Wald Switzerland. A Small but growing Alpine ecology movement is ulily critical of the con Crete vacation villages that have Bee built especially in the French Alps and of the defacing of Mountain slopes by bulldozers to enlarge ski runs. And environmentalists say the Snow making cannons waste Energy and water and that vegetation is affected by the unnaturally deep Snow cover
