European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday december 30,1989 be advising passengers of to Washington Apt Northwest airlines took the unusual step thursday of giving Iva sengers the option of cancelling reservations on one fit tonal flights because of a bomb threat. Airline reservations clerks were advising callers of a Security threat against saturday s flight 51 from Paris to Detroit. The Federal aviation administration said it had been informed of the telephoned threat and was helping ensure stopped up Security in Paris. The airline said the plane would still Fly but gave custom ers options for making other travel arrangements. This is an unusual threat in the fact that its specific directed at a specific flight on anal ocular Day and that is what adds to the  we re taking surrounding it said Noel fewest spokesman Douglas Miller in St. Paul a Jet. Miller said the Airlen acc lived a phoned threat that a bomb would by Ard the flight. He said Northwest informed Torum Fri Cia and foreign agencies that would a evolved but he would give no other details police comb quake rubble for survivors Sydney Australia Dpi an elite police Cave squad Friday Tunnel through the wreckage of a Newcastle so Cial club in search of survivors of a pow Erful earthquake that claimed nine lives and injured 170 people. The quake Felt Over a wide area of populous new South Wales state measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The Epi Center of the quake was pinpointed just 3miles West of Newcastle an old steel town about 80 Miles North of Sydney. Authorities on Friday revised the death toll downward from 11, and said at least 170 people were injured. The focus of search activities was the Newcastle workers club where an unknown number of people most of them elderly were believed to have been trapped when the temblor rumbled through the coastal City thursday. Ali reported deaths occurred in new Casic and its suburb. Hamilton. The recently formed Cave squad a10-Man Crew trained and equipped to locate people lost in caves and old mines was called in to assist in Rescue efforts authorities said. Scores of buildings Many built in the i9lh Century collapsed in Newcastle crushing or trapping Many and Shower ing pedestrians with rubble. Water and Gas Mains burst and two hospitals evacuated patients to nearby Parks. Police Rescue squads Are using what they Call the san Francisco technique As a guideline As they hand cleared the debris in the club looking for  you remember in the san Francis co earthquake they found survivors afew Days after the original tremor. We must Hope that there Are people trapped in the basement with some sort of debris about the threat. Citing unspecified Security sources Abc news reported thursday night that a Man with a my Jufu Tim Lorn Nrrma made the threat to the  Natii it a Iii Llie bombing would  for life sentence. Iliahu  convicted in Sweden of  with a string of bombings in eur one , Abu Mohammed Talb is in to aug Ming of pan am flight 103 Over Scotland Wjk milled 270 people a year ago. He and co defendant Marten Imandt were sentenced to life for their part in the 1985 bombing of a Northwest office in Copenhagen Denmark that killed one person and wounded 20, one of four bombings in Denmark and the Netherlands for which they were convicted. As a result of the threat Security was being in creased on All Northwest flights out of Paris Miller said. We intend to Fly the plane he said. We feel that we  and Security measures in Arco crate the plane safely. If we did not feel 100 Cut positive about Pur ability to Fly the plane safely we would not put it in the air. Miller said the airline had not decided whether to advise passengers individually prior to their arrival for the flight but a statement advising of the bomb threat would be handed to those who go to the Airport for departure on saturday. They can change their itineraries without penalty Aid. Airlines regularly prohibit reservation changes or Cwb by them when passengers Fly on the least expensive Tarenc Northwest  were advising callers inquiring about the  was a Security threat against the plane and  could change reservations to another Day or anole flight on a Dif Ferent airline without penalty. Was year. Faa spokesman John Leyden said the bomb threat i one of about 300 received by . Carriers each Luick troop withdrawal us Hubly official say covering them police super intendant Ken Holmes said Friday. We must take the san Francisco earthquake As an example of late recoveries and i think we can afford the same Hope today Holmes said. Almost four Days after the oct. 17 Earth quake in san Francisco and More than 70 aftershocks Crews that had Given up Hope of finding anyone alive rescued a 57-year old Longshoreman who later died. More than 200 rescuers working under powerful arc lights started their efforts before Dawn Friday and prepare to Edge their Way into the basement of Newcastle workers club where As Many As 14 elderly people were believed to have been buried. It is impossible to work out just How Many people Are Down there. We won t know until we get in there police spokesman Ron Tamplin said. There were reports thursday of looting in Newcastle s Central business District meanwhile and 400 soldiers joined police units to help maintain Law and order. The Central business area was sealed off to All except police Media and engineers who Are checking buildings for damage. Panama City Panama a february target Date  the 14,000 . Troops Airlift Dinto Panama is unlikely to be met because he scope of the threat against the new Golf lament is still unclear a senior .  Cial said thursday. That s probably not meet Able to official said of the hoped for feb Ruai withdrawal Date. The official in a briefing for repo Krs also said the country s newly Foo cd Security forces Are of necessity Ane up of officers and troops from Ujj Jet. Manuel Antonio Noriega s old panamanian de sense forces and that string Cal checks on their background Nad to be made. It is no  the new govern ment docs not have a lot of Confidence in some of thes6t eople said the official who decl Nedlo be named. He said former officers who were exiled arcs cd or retired because of opposition to Noriega have been called Back to duty Batum Pranke up a Small minority of the Zflmer corps. The official Foo said . Intelligence had no eve fice that Noriega loyalists were punning to mount a guerrilla War again june new  about 3,300 shooters were a 16,000-Strong defense forces and about three fourths of those have been United for. The rest were in supporter Juluce roles he said. The size of the threat against the be Tovern mint would remain unclear for Showtime he said Washington would not by be to begin withdrawing troops from that suntry by the hoped for deadline of be brim the official said a believes the new government is  to forma Security Force at a lower us than a conventional army but Strong Niban a police Force. Also there May be Al to decentralize and move some functions to other agencies he said. Noriega from Page 1 the officer on duty at Noriega s military Headquarters on dec. 16, the Day an unarmed . Marine officer was shot and killed nearby. Villanueva said col. Nivaldo Madri Nan chief of Noriega s investigations department and capt. Elizzer Gaytan chief of Security were among those remaining inside the Vatican embassy. A . Embassy official said Noriega s wife Felicidad was inside the cuban embassy residence. Banks opened thursday for the first time since the . Invasion began on dec. 20, and thousands of Public work ers were paid As millions of dollars confiscated by . Troops were returned to Panama s new government. Traffic jams resumed in the capital of 1 million people and the Panama canal returned to 24-hour operation for the first time since the invasion. . Armoured cars were on the streets. Occasional patrols roamed residential neighbourhoods to search can for Noriega loyalists. The . Embassy official said most of the 16,000-member panamanian defense forces that were capable of resistance had been accounted for. But he said there was still some concern about some remaining loyalty to Noriega. Loyalists from Page 1 deadline elapsed at 5 . Local time. It voiced fears that defiant members of Ceausescu s Security forces might attempt fresh attacks on revolutionary government forces. The radio also broadcast new instructions for guards at checkpoints to inspect vehicles flying White or Redcross flags to make sure they have not been commandeered by Ceausescu loyalists. It said the guards should not exclude women from risks after ammunition was found under the dresses of Ceausescu loyalists. A government communique read on radio called noncitizens to Stop taking the Law into their own hands when they caught Ceausescu loyalists. There was no Clear indication whether or How Many of Ceausescu s armed Security guards had  National salvation committee a provisional government did not know whether forces Loyal to the sex president remained in Safe houses underground tunnels or mountains and forests said diplomats after a meeting wednesday with committee chairman Ion Iliescu. The hungarian state news Agency Mai meanwhile quoted an unidentified former communist party offi Cial in Bucharest As saying Ceausescu had personally Given the order to shoot at demonstrators in Timisoara where the revolt began. It said the source was pre sent when the order was  Vienna Marin Ceausescu the late dictator s eldest brother was found hanged at the romanian embassy s Trade Section thursday. He had apparently committed suicide police  Romania soldiers and police arrested Ceausescu s sister Elena Barbulescu and her son. Emit As they were hiding out in Ceausescu s Hometown . Mrs. Barbulescu is the wife of Vasile Barbulescu who was Ceausescu i agriculture chief and is currently under arrest. Romania from Pace 1 Europe in pm Sens by army no focal Supply specialists and West germans world at the Center said capt. David Clava spokesman Lor the Center. The approximately so ignets were to be transported on Flat bed trailers byi�76th trans co in firm Asento Rhein main a irks Oak evening. A c-130 Hercules from thv435th tac Airlift Wing at Rhein main a ims scheduled Fly the supplies to Bucharest at 5 . Said base spokesman maj. Ste phen Knec huf seven air Force  and four state Depyl tent civilians will be Abo Aronic c-130. In Tho past the Materiel Center provided Akujor victims of thai Zamstein air show disaster in augur toss the fijian earthquake in december 1988, and i in Ethiopia that killed . Rep. Mickey 1 is and 15 other people in August