European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Stripes authorized unofficial publication to the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48. No. 257 saturday december 30. 25 Dwy ind sunday d 8693 a inside strides d Gen. Thurman a hard Charger in Panama Page 3 d group claims responsibility for fatal mail bombs Page 5 d reformer s cleanup Man prepares for exercise Page 8 d rescuers seek survivors of australian quake Back Page Ceausescu loyalists fight on from wire reports Bucharest Romania gunfire erupted in two parts of Bucharest thurs Day night As forces Loyal to executed Dic Tator Nicolae Ceausescu apparently ignored a government ultimatum to surrender or die. Members of Ceausescu s feared Saccu rotate or Security police opened fire near the communist party Headquarters in downtown Bucharest scene of past fight ing before the army brought the Situa Tion under control. Gunfire also rang out for 10 minutes in the neighbourhood of the television building which the pro Ceausescu forces had attacked last week in an Effort to abort the popular revolt that toppled Ceausescu. He was later captured and a secret military trial found him guilty of Geno army of Send Aid to Romania Pir Masens Wett Germany is almost $200.000 in humanitarian medial supplies prodded by the 7th medical come id Heidelberg Weil Ger Many is being sent to Romania to help citizens of the revolt Tom country. The supplies include Urt ares Needles bandages emergency medical equip ment operating equipment for Field situations and intravenous fluids. The supplies were assembled at the is. Army medical Materiel Center so Romania on Back Page Cid and grave crimes against the peo ple stemming from his 24-year Rule. He and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad. Although there arc no exact counts authorities estimate that tens of thou Sands of people died in the revolution lion and reprisal killings by occur state forces around the country. Meanwhile the United nations appealed for emergency humanitarian assistance to Romania. The 159-nation general Assembly adopted a Resolution by consensus urging All nations private and Public institutions to Aid the strife torn nation. Austrian envoy Thomas Hajnoczy the minister Counselor told the Assembly. Over Many years the romanian people have endured manifold suffering As a re sult of grave violations of their political civil economic social and cultural ambassador a ctr Tanasie who formerly represented the Ceausescu government told the Assembly that its Call for Aid was a touching humanitarian gesture which would never be forgot on thursday Ceausescu loyalists apparently ignored a 48-hour ultimatum to surrender or face capital punishment. Bucharest radio warned citizens to stay off the streets of Bucharest after the see loyalists on Back Page j 4 top Noriega aides arrested in Panama panamanians demonstrate against deposed Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega at a barricade on a Road leading to the Vatican embassy in Panama City thursday. Panama City Panama a four of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega Stop aides have been arrested including two who walked out of the Vatican embassy a Here Noriega has taken Refuge. Noriega remained in the embassy with 17 others including two senior aides said the Rev. Javier Vallanueva a Parish priest helping the papal Nuncio. A panamanian official said president us Illarmo Endara s government sent a letter to the Vatican asking that Noriega be turned Over. But he said he did no know whether the government asked Hal Noriega be turned Over to . Or Pana Manian authorities. . Troops continued to surround the Vatican embassy where they played loud recorded Rock music apparently As harassment. Two of the deposed strongman s top aides it. Col. Carlos Velardes and it. Col. Arnulfo Castrejon left the shelter of the embassy and were detained by . Troops that surround the area said . Army it. Col. Jerry Murguia. Murguia also said it. Col. Roberto cd Dino had been arrested and a senior . Embassy official said Michel Harari a former israeli intelligence agent also had been detained. Velardes was chaplain of the Panama Nian defense forces. Castrejon had been see Noriega on Back Page superpowers appear ready of reap arms packs by David Tarrant Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium 1990 is shaping up to be the year of arms control. V " -.i.-, after a decade of various talks that yielded Only one treaty affecting a fraction of the world s nuclear weapons prospects appear to be excellent for negotiations to reduce or in some cases to eliminate weapons of every Stripe conventional nuclear and chemical. As the threat of War Between the United state. And the soviet Union fades both countries Are hop ing the time is Ripe for harvesting More arms control agreements. To underscore that Point president Bush said he would do everything in his Power to achieve accords soon. I the president of the United states will kick our bureaucracy and push it As fast As 1 possibly can for conventional arms he told Newt conference Nosic we year vie Headquarters i m con Vinced that we i must do More to keep it on schedule he said to ing that he a so would work to expedite talks on nuclear and chemical weapons. In 1990, negotiators will face a hefty lineup of continuing talks from 1989 conventional forces Europe or cafe talks. Negotiators for the 23 members of nato and the Warsaw pact began meeting March 9 in Vienna a Ria on slashing i in i Mimi ii both troops an weapon. by the end of 1990. 3ela1est round of talks which ended dec. 21, saw both sides Issue a working draft of a treaty. Strategic arms reduction talks or Start. Aimed at radically reducing strategic nuclear arse nals the talks received a Strong boost during the Malta Summit when Bush and soviet president Mik Hail Gorbachev agreed to put the talks Back on the fast track and resolve All outstanding issues by Summit set for june in the United states weapons. Both soviet and Western . Comprehensive ban on Chemi Cal weapons witmthfwo.24 months. Meanwhile a evicts Are forging ahead with the 1987 Inton Piffl at tango nuclear 3
