European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 in stars and stripes monday tuesday december 25/26,1989 reinforcements an army Blackhawk helicopter is readied for loading into the maw of a giant c 5 transport at he Monterey calif., air port on Friday presumably for shipment to Panama. President Bush has ordered 2,000 additional troops to Panama in Cope with stubborn resistance from troops Loyal in Gen. Manuel Noriega and with near anarchy among the population reported. News briefs time names Gorbachev Man of the decade new York a Mikhail s. Gorbachev whose political and economic reforms in the Sovi " solution Whatel Union sparked communist control of named Man of the d saturday. The soviet president Man of the year in 19. Is the Force behind t of the 80s. Shattered Eastern Europe was Ide by time Magazine previously named time s was chosen because he most momentous events somehow confining inadequate and thus of the  the Magazine said 1 making possible the Vej table episodes the it natural order on Hunt or Choice to 1989 seemed be named Gorbachev Man in has accelerated history d of one of its most Dis rep position of a cruel and funds of millions of  l.a., san Diego fires Force evacuations los Angeles a a raging pre Dawn fire chased 106 residents from a 14-Story condominium burned two construction Sites and set the roofs of five expensive Homes ablaze before it was doused Early saturday. Seven firefighters suffered minor injuries and an 89-year-old woman was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. All were in Good condition said fire chief Donald Manning. A fire also broke out saturday morning on the lop floor of a 15-Story apartment building in san Diego. Six people were hospitalized with minor injuries and dozens were evacuated. Motive sought ind. Judge s bombing by the Ballin Hagerstown my. I into Friday s explosion that in judge will review recent drug any possible connection by two the judge s sentencing of d terms in prison sources said s Washington county circus p. Corderman was listed in. Washington county Hospital bomb exploded in his Lap. Co a Finger and was wounded in and eardrums Afier a bomb exploded when he opened tin to croon. He recently had Imp in drug trials sources said. A team of investigators Hea cd City police and members of in tend to go through those Ca in the bombing sources said the bombing May be a cop Alabama and an Alderman w a. Re Sun Vest gators looking ured a Hagerstown ass to determine i the bombing and g dealers to Long urday. Court judge John of condition at a saturday after a Erman lost part of in Abdomen hand ailed to his House aka go Friday of pm harsh sentences by Hagerstown a Bureau of alcohol. Tobacco and firearms s first As they search for a motive and suspects be of the possibilities being investigated is that at of recent bombings that killed a judge in i served As an a act attorney in Savannah the Low key pro in charge by he los Angeles times Washington when it. Gen. Carl w. St incr was named to  the . Invasion of Panama last week few of his colleagues were surprised. St incr commander of the xviii air borne corps the army s fast reaction Force that spearheaded the action has been at the Center of Many High risk Mili tary actions in recent years including the dramatic capture of the Achille Laura s hijackers in 1985. They could t have found a Heller Guy to do  said Edward c. Meyer former army chief of staff. He conies across like Jimmy Stew Art added another retired general. Stiner does t get real excited. He has a lot of patience such Unflat ability served Sliner Well on oct. 10, 1985, at the is Gonella naval air station in Sicily. Moments after . Navy f-i4 fighter jets had forced Down an Egypt air plane carrying several suspected terrorists thought to be the Hijack ers of the Achille Lauro Sliner s men had them in custody. As commander of the operation Stiner flew aboard one of the Navy jets. Eventually 11 palestinians were convicted of hijacking the cruise liner. The same source who praised Stiner s handling of the incident also added criticism however. He charged that St incr s Lark of appreciation for the complexities of Middle East politics May have contributed to the suicide bombing of the Marine Headquarters in Beirut that killed24\ marines. During his Brief stint in Lebanon As the representative of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Sliner in 1983 recommended that Navy vessels offshore open fire on moslem militias. Just Over a month later a suicide bomber in a Mer cedes truck levelled the Marine Headquarters in apparent retaliation. But Stiner is widely described As an officer with uncommon concern for his troops to the Point of advising sol Diers on family planning and budgeting. Panama from Page 1 planes dropped 2,000-Pound bombs on afield outside the Pofs Rio Halo com Pound a former . Airfield 75 Miles West of Panama City in a Surprise attack designed to stun the Noriega forces with out inflicting casualties. In Managua Nicaragua Nicaragua soldiers surrounded the . Embassy again saturday in an Effort to Force .soldiers searching for Noriega to end their blockade of Nicaragua s embassy in Panama. Although . Army commanders i Panama have described the resistance of Noriega s forces As much stiffer than they had anticipated the White House says that the fighting has developed Al most exactly As senior Pentagon officers predicted in their pc invasion briefing for president Bush. All of us find it almost unbelievable that it s going just about As  White House press Secretary Martin Fitz water said. Fitzwater said that Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Laid out the military plan last sunday and said the first few Days of the opera t on would be the easiest pan that sometime after that would be required to re store Law and order that there were risks of hostages and roving bands of dignity people and there would be a lot of Vio Lence and trouble getting snipers under control. So the president knew All that when he made the  despite an american toll of at least 26deaths and 238 injuries and a much larger casualty list for panamanians As Well As extensive destruction in the tiny country the White House described Bush As pleased with the Way the opera Tion has gone. Cd stator reported held frontage 1 entrenched. Send pm to ency Aid. But the delivery has been hindu Cpd by continued fighting. Britain  was sending emergency medical supp fms including equipment for treating gun Sun wounds and provid ing blood transfusions. Sweden s government said it had allocated $3.1 million in medical and food assistance. The International comm vec of the red Cross sent two Relief plants to the romanian capital Friday night carrying 4 tons of emergency medical Sunyich five doctors and nurses and three Olf car red Cross officials. A message the Teal sent through Swiss diplomatic channels saturday said it was blocked at the by Charcot Airport and began treating at300 civilians and combatants who wounded near the Airport. Meanwhile in another re Post from Geneva a newspaper said Sai Tupay there Are indications that i Haj Ceausescu family had stashed $400 a Pion in Gold Al Zurich Switzerland s financial capital. The Tribune do go nerf said a Zurich lawyer. Moriley.  is preparing to query the Federal Avern men about that report. There Jas no immediate comment from  and government officials. Fighting raged in Bucharest through out the Day fairday. Foreign and romanian to Clemion monitored in the West shool dramatic film of Anli Ceausescu a prices pinned on the ground by pro coins ecu snipers. Also shown were land pc and army and civilian riflemen returning fire toward nearby buildings where attackers were believed entrenched unarmed civilians Ryf through Thefield of fire to bring Yea to the television station s defenders. Before Dawn saturday Young people armed Only with homemade bomb nought beside soldiers against a furious onslaught by members of causes cur dreaded state Security forces. Clashes Cre reported in several other romanian towns. Among them were Timison where an estimated 100 elite Secu Defalc troops reportedly parachuted into the area from helicopters to re in Brycc comrades still holding out against army. Timisoara is the West romanian Tow where the current uprising began with a massacre of protesting civilians last kind. La deaths during three Days of figh Tim in the romanian capital were estimated at 1,000 or More. Television film spotted dozens of bodies piled in Hospital cok Dors for Lack of another place to put to Ion Iliescu Annam bar of the so called front of National salvation As the provisional govern ask is known announced on to in blk Harvst that Mccau a Csc was being  no details of the former strongman Tolj Piure. State television showed Ceausescu soon Nicu Ceausescu in Cudy Friday but by late saturday had offer Wio proof of his father s capture and no awas to where the deposed dictator my Jet beheld. On saturday radio Bucharest 7.614 people arrested in Timisoara been executed far greater than the hundreds originally reported killed