European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse I. Vav the authorized unofficial publication Fob the a. Ahmed Good morning vol. 48. No. 255 thursday december 28, 199 w a. S,., d 8693 a writer Samuel Beckett Dies Page 8 a i 1 soldiers of the 7 h inf div from fort Ord calif., stand guard outside the american embassy in Panama City tuesday. . Asks european Banks to freeze Noriega s assets by the new York times Washington the Bush administration said tuesday it would ask several european countries to freeze More than $10 million in drug related asset that ousted panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega is believed to have deposited i their Banks. We will be taking Steps tomorrow to free a Noriega s Bank accounts in a number of foreign countries said David Runkl a Justice department spokes Man. What we arc talking about arc assets Noriega accumulated through his illegal drug activities. We have traced what we think arc most of his account through police investigations stemming from his indictments in Florida. We can legally take this action because these arc assets generated by Noriega on the see Noriega on Back Page Cheney says Pursuit wore out Noriega by he los Angeles times Washington a hounding Pur suit by . Soldiers succeeded in wearing out Manuel Antonio Noriega and forcing him out of hiding. Inc Pentagon said tuesday. The . Military did its Job said Secretary of defense Dick Cheney in a television interview. We ran general Noriega to according to Pentagon spokesman Pete Wil Liams a Noriega bodyguard who turned himself in see related stories on pages 4, 5 and 7 to . Forces recounted stories of Noriega s sleep less nights on the Lam. The panamanian body guard who was not named described Panama deposed Leader As so exhausted from the Chase he could barely speak when he arrived at the vat ican embassy Christmas eve to seek Asylum. During the five Day manhunt Noriega got Norest with . Troops constantly on his Tail Wil Liams said. It s Clear that Noriega was not in command of the psf panamanian defens forces during the Battle because he was too Busy trying to save his own skin and was moving around Pentagon officials acknowledged that . Intelligence a gems had pinpointed Noriega s whereabouts inc Day before the 24,000-Man invasion began dec. 19. But Noriega eluded his american pursuers and moved from hiding place to hiding place before seeking pre Lection from the Vatican. . Officials in Panama said that while on Therun Noriega lost some of his voodoo paraphernalia and wore red underwear to escape the evil news of Noriega s anguished Days on the run continued on Back Page Ceausescu bodies shown by the Baltimore Sun Bucharest Romania first there was a shout then a dozen or More doctors and nurses at emergency Hospital running at full Speed scrambled into a Small room not to save a patient but to watch the grisly final instalment of Nicolae Ceausescu s televised death. I m sorry the set is Only Black and while one of the senior physicians said As if to apologize for the relative Lack of Gore in the videotapes romanian to broadcast Early tuesday afternoon. It left no doubt that the former president and his wife Elena were dead. State television had announced their capture trial and execution sunday but had left lingering doubts about their Fate by conducting the executions in secrecy and failing to show their corpses. Romanians stayed up All night to be certain not Romiss the scenes finally broadcast tuesday. Govern ment officials said the delay was caused by gun Bat Leswith pro Caus Csc forces around the to station holding up delivery of the tape. In some portions of the tape the Ceausescu appeared to be clearly aware of their fall in status. But in other scenes they seemed to be argumentative Andun intimidated by their captors and by their new status As accused rather than accusers. "1 will answer nothing. I will sign nothing. I will no recognize this court Ceausescu says at one Point. See related Story Page 3 who ordered the shooting of the people the interrogator asks. "1 will not answer a single question Ceausescu replies. Do not interpret my silence As you destroyed the romanian people and their Economy the interrogator charges. Such things arc unheard of in the civilized world. We do not intend to argue with you Ceausescu says. The population had everything it his wife stared absently with apparent Lack of inter est As Ceausescu made it Clear he considered his Cap tors traitors in league with an unnamed foreign Power who helped perpetrate a coup d eat. I will answer Only to the people s parliament i connection with treason and the coup and How things happened in romanian history and you will All answer to the people Ceausescu says. Hours before they were stood before a firing squad Elena Ceausescu rebukes her husband for permitting the disrespect being shown him. How can you let them speak to you like that she asks Ceausescu on the tape. Will you allow them to continued on Back Page the year in review editor s note today s Recap on Page 3 of espionage involving us. Serve remembers in Europe is the first article in a series looking Back Al 1989and the decade. In today s daily Magazine is a fire Page chronology of the year in words and pictures. Tomor Row s stripes Magazine will Oner the Best Pic Tures of 1989 by Stan and stripes staff photographers. The decade in sports will be featured in the Dally Magazine starting sunday with stories on major events teams and thursday the stars and stripes will publish a 16-Page special Section covering the tumultuous changes in Eastern 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
