European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Yankees Billy Martin Dies in crash sports Page 21 authorized unofficial. Publication Foh the . Angueo Force Good morning vol. 48. No. 254 wednesday december 27, 1989 in a m a d 8693 a Ceausescu wife executed romanians rejoice As to shows bodies of couple romanian television broadcast this picture of a doctor checking Nicolae Ceausescu blood pressure just before the former romanian president was executed on monday. Bucharest Romania a government to tuesday showed the bodies of former president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife after they were executed by a firing squad and romanians rejoiced at evidence of the communist dictator s death. Television also showed a former Tor Ture chamber run by his dreaded secret police in the Western City of Timisoara. It said More than 12,000 protesters were killed by police since the popular revolt sparked unrest in the country last week. The new provisional government tuesday appointed its Leader Ion Ali Csc As chairman of the 37-Membcr governing Council. The government also named prime minister. See related Story. Page 3. The videotape showed the cause sous Bullet riddled bodies lying against a  earlier videotape showed the couple in Captivity. A close up showed Ceausescu lying with blood on the right Side of his head. The actual shooting by firing squad was not shown nor was its location Dis closed. Ceausescu. 71, and his wife Elena 72, were tried by a secret military tribunal and executed Christmas Day for Geno cide and other crimes. They were Cap tured saturday. I Day after a popular uprising forced them from Power. We Are people carried away by a very spontaneous process Iliescu told French television. So there was a Gener Al demand which pushed us to follow this process first of All under the pressure of the terrorist groups who wanted to free  the new prime minister pc Peroman told the network the tribunal sentenced Ceausescu to death because officials had information concerning possible attacks on the place where  by trying the couple putting them to death swiftly and showing the bodies the revolutionary government apparently was trying to persuade Ceausescu s Ruth less Security troops to surrender to the army which joined the people in revolt. Thousands have been killed since the re Volt began 11 Days ago. The new government blamed Ceausescu for the deaths of 60,000 people. The death toll was for the whole of Ceausescu s 24-year Rule said romanian source abroad and a correspondent for the yugoslavian state news Agency. Tan Jug. Reports have said As Many As 80,000died in the popular uprising. Hundreds were reported tortured and buried in mass Graves and thousands were killed see Ceausescu on Back Page 440 Panama loyalists caught Vatican harbouring Noriega Panama City Panama a More than 400 troops Loyal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega we recaptured in airborne assaults and scattered combat erupted overnight throughout parts of the capital . Military spokesmen said tuesday. Noriega remained in the Vatican embassy after seeking Asylum on Christmas eve. The United states has demanded his surrender to face . Drug charges but Church authorities refused. Spain has denied no Riega political Asylum and there was no new word about where he might go. Army la. Col. Jerry Murgia said 440 Noriega Loy Alist troops and about the same number of weapons were captured in airborne assaults monday on David 200 Miles to the West and la Palma just Southwest of Panama City. He also said Noriega s  chief col. Guil Lermo Wong surrendered monday. Wong had been arrested after a coup attempt in october but had been released. Murgia said that 30,000 pounds of emergency medi Cal supplies had arrived in the past Day and that civil Ian Relief workers would help distribute the items. Twenty three american soldiers arc known to have died and another 330 have been wounded Murgia said adding that the number of wounded Rose because of late reports. Two . Dependents were killed. See related stories on pages 7 and 28. Panamanian casualties were listed As 293 killed 123 wounded and 4,446 captured . Military authorities said. Panamanian doctors said More than 100 civilians were killed and hundreds More injured. Heavy fighting was reported overnight near a Down town sector where Many embassies arc located and the building housing the Banco general was burned. Ban officials and . Soldiers said the Blaze started after american troops returned fire coming from the build ing. Fighting also occurred near Santo Tomas Hospital close to the . Embassy. Caches of arms and ammunition have been found hidden in the Hospital in recent Days. Small arms and mortar fire was heard near the cuban embassy which was surrounded by . Troops As Well As the foreign ministry where the .-Installcd government of president Guillermo Endara is based. Cuba has demanded an urgent meeting of the . Security Council to discuss the presence of the .soldiers around its embassy the official soviet news see Panama on Back Page Jeff fire Walton sports Page 27 89the year in review editor s note today s Recap on Page 3 of espionage involving is. Morrice Stembers in Europe is the first article in a series looking Back at 1989 and the decade. In today s daily Magazine is a five Page chronology of the year in words and pictures. Tomor Row s stripes Magazine will offer the Best Pic Tures of 1989 by stars and stripes staff photographers. The decade in sports will be featured in the daily Magazine on saturday and sunday with stories on major events teams and personalities. Next wednesday the stars and stripes will publish a 16-Page special Section covering the tumultuous changes in Eastern Europe. Other articles will focus on the Dollar flight safety arms negotiations military personnel is sues the military in the 1980s and what the year meant to stars and stripes readers