European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news Briers the stars and stripes 1 Snow keeps of planes from Bucharest Landing from staff i id wire reports rhf.in-ma1nab test Germany two . Air Force of 30s Load i with medical supplies for Romania were unable because of Snow. The planes were c1 and were to attempt the Only one aircraft carry the Relief Supply 65,000 pounds of Seq medical come woul o land in Bucharest Friday sorted to Aviano a Italy Light again saturday originally was scheduled to to Romania. However the pent provided by the 7th not fit on one plane and a second was sent on the Nercy Mission if the planes Are Unble to land in Bucharest on saturday they May t main spokesman miday. Shock rattle second Nasty scare w Ter shocks rumbled the night police said Satui Lay. The aftershock we Ter scale was Felt in to Charlestown at 8.13 three seconds seism More than 150 Pec quake which struck the Richter scale. All 170 injured in the Qwin alternate Airport Rhein Stephen Knechtel said Fri s Newcastle Newcastle Autralia battered residents of Australia s earthquake stricken steel City got a in the first of expected of ugh the City s suburbs Over h registered 1.5 on the Rich suburbs of Adamstown and m. Friday and lasted about lists said. E were left homeless by the urday and measured 5.5 on at i ast 10 people were killed and 1990 to wait a second Washington poised on the Brink of a new decade the world will pause sunday night for just a second. A leap second will be tacked on to the end of 1989, making sunday the longest Day of the year. The extra second is needed to keep the world s clocks in time with the rotation of the planet according to officials. Titan launch delayed Cape canaveral. Fla. Stiff High Altitude winds forced an eighth postponement Friday night of the launch of Martin Marietta corp s first com Mercial Titan 3 rocket carrying British and Japa Nese communications satellites. The launch was re scheduled for 7 07 . Saturday. Rocket Pioneer Dies Nurnberg West Germany Hermann Jumius Oberth a Pioneer of the space age who worked with Werner von Braun to help develop Germany s Al and v-2 rockets during world War ii died Friday. He was 95. The German Model later thai year no Kurkcu in Pic a your win von Braun later considered the leading scientist in . Space flight development heating in soars new York More than 5 cent sending a month United states with heating Oil of cents to end the c Exchange at $1.0 on the week and month. Gude new York the last trading a with Little to go agreement that i new year again could lose ground yen. . Heating Oil futures soared gallon in hectic trading Friday bitter cold Over much of the 62 percent gain january delivery rocketed 5.47 y on the new York mercantile7 a gallon a gain of 20.13 cents 16 cents or 62.4 percent on the Dollar finishes mixed the Dollar finished mixed on in 1989 in a thinned out Market it. Analysts Are in general . Currency will drop in the the West German Mark an against the now weak japanese freighter founders Honolulu a greek freighter was sinking Friday about 800 Miles Northeast of Hawaii As its28-member Crew tried with Little Success to pump water out of the 600-foot ship with help from Tanker officials said. It does t look Good now but we Don t know whether they Are going to abandon ship yet said coast guard chief Petty officer Dennis Hubbard. They Are still pumping sunday december 31,1969 Vatican berates . For childish tactics in Panama by the new York times the Vatican blamed the american government Friday Tor the impasse Over Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega s Fate calling the United states an occupying Power with no right to demand that the ousted dictator be handed Over to its forces. The chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro vails told journalists in Rome Friday morning that Noriega was being urged to leave the Vatican s diplomatic Mission in Panama City of his own free will. Navarro also said that it was up to the panamanian government to seek custody of Noriega if he was to face criminal charges but that so far no such request had come from Panama. Meeting with reporters at a mid Day briefing Navarro called the United states an occupying Power in Panama with no right to interfere with a diplomatic Mission s function there. He spoke critically of the tactics of american troops who have surrounded the embassy in a residential Panama City neighbourhood since Noriega sought and received Sanctuary there on Christmas eve. The troop tactics have included frisking the papal emis sary s chauffeur shooting out Street lights and broadcast ing loud music Day and night. Senior Vatican officials interviewed by Telephone Fri Day said the apparent Effort at psychological warfare was ludicrous and  loudspeakers outside the embassy have been playing such songs As voodoo child nowhere to run you re no Good and smugglers blues in what appeared to be an Effort to unnerve  White House reacted to the Yatican statements by insisting that All is Well in relations with the Church. The Vatican s doing a Fine Job said Marlin Fitzwa Ter the White House spokesman. We appreciate their efforts. We will continue to work with them in a positive  Catholic leaders in the United states reacted with indignation to any criticism of the Vatican. Cardinal John o Connor of new York said he had been appalled by the attacks against the Church and the holy  Fitzwater was asked at his briefing in Corpus Christi Texas on thursday whether playing loud Rock music out Side the embassy might not further fray already frayed nerves inside the  replied it was an attempt to disrupt communications so that we could have some guarantees of the Security of our  . Vote shows support for . From Page 1 in Vallarino s place. By the same Accord us Uel Antonio Noriega who from the floor. Valmarino gained support since no ican embassy in Panama we Are now the Only Valmarino said he sex to Secretary general Javier absent on his return next in addition to the Yunusi allies and Japan the resold immediate withdrawal of Drew a higher number of abstentions were Partick British Caribbean states am but every latin Ameri Argentina except two Backi ters of ousted Gen. Man i to recant were barred 1 the new government had took Refuge in the vat i on Christmas eve. Ament in town he said. I to present his credentials Percz de Cuellar who was Elk. A solid vote of the nato on which also called for a. Forces from Panama item ions than expected High from the former Iraq nations nation from Mexico to in condemnatory Resolution Al Salvador cast a Nef Tive vote and Honduras abstained. Latin american speakers said their votes were based on their  to foreign intervention but some joined Ista Rica in condemning the Resolution s sponsors for Liling to criticize Noriega s dictatorship. Those who expected to sen break from the past by newly non communist East n european states were disappointed All but Poland flowed the Lead of soviet ambassador Aleksandr Benn gov who termed the Western veto of Security Courtl action  . Ambassador m. Jam Wilkinson chided the general Assembly for Refu Sii to support democracy in Panama against the Bac drop of a breathtaking and pervasive transition to Trow democracy All around the  Rescue Spartanburg county , emergency medical services director Jimmy Greene helps 12-year-old Louis Rogers to safety after the boy and Friend fell through ice while playing thursday. Louis was in the water for 30 minutes. The rescued boys were treated and released by a local Hospital. Dissident writer new czech Leader from Page 1 pro democracy civic forum organization Hope he will serve out his constitutional five year  the Stone vaulted Vladislav Hall at the Hilltop Castle. Communist prime minister Marian Calfa praised Havel in a nominating speech for the human rights campaigner who was released from jail Only seven months ago. In what amounted to a condemnation of ousted presi Dent Gustav Husak s regime which ruled in the Wake of the soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Calfa lauded Havel As a Man who is faithful to his beliefs de spite persecution and who never accepted offers from his fiends or recommendations by his enemies to Emi grate where living conditions would have been More com  s words of admiration exalted a Man often denounced and imprisoned by the communist authorities Asa Bourgeois intellectual troublemaker. During his sporadic respite from jail Havel was forced to support himself by Money earned abroad from plays he wrote that were banned in  Bush sent Havel his congratulations from Beeville Texas and pledged his commitment to the re Newal and strengthening of political economic and cultural ties Between Czechoslovakia and the United states White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Havel s election the White House statement said Marks a fitting end to a year of astonishing change in Eastern  during the vote and inauguration ceremony the remarkable political turnabout in recent weeks was embodied by the new prominence of Alexander Dubcek the guiding spirit of Czechoslovakia s crushed 1968 Experiment in socialism with a human  elected thursday As chairman of the Federal Assembly his first official position since nil ouster Dubcek 68, accompanied Havel As the new president prepared to sign the oath of office. In the Early afternoon roman Catholic Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek celebrated a thanksgiving mass at the Castle s St. Vitus Cathedral and it was the first time since 1948 that a president had attended a religious ceremony in Public. The official Teteka news Agency also announced that Havel will visit both East and West Germany in the near future.  your stars and stripes Carrier will be calling soon. Please have your payment ready