European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 monday tuesday january 1/2,1990 quake measuring 6.7 hits Papua new Guinea from stiff and wire report Washington a Strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale occurred near he Northern coast of Papua new Guinea sunday morning the . Geological Survey re ported. A geological Survey spokesman said it was not known whether Here were any injuries or serious damage. A quake of similar magi nude in april 1988 in roughly the same area did not cause serious injuries or damage he said. Death toll up at 12 in australian temblor Newcastle. Austi Ilia the death toll from thursday s Carthy acc Rose to 12 sunday when i is curs dug out t to More bodies from a collapsed building. A police spoke Soma said All people missing in the quake in the Indi trial City of Newcastle had been accounted i nine victims were found buried under ton of Concrete when the upper two floors of the r was tic workers club collapsed onto the Bascom it parking lot. Three other people w re killed in a nearby suburb by falling masonry and awnings. Titan 3 launch delayed Cape canaveral a. Martin mar Ietta was forced Saturn ninth time the first co Titan 3 rocket once Aga to postpone for the Vercial launch of its because of High Alti tude crosswinds streaking up to 102 Mph. A i oth attempt was scheduled for 7 07 . Sunday. 75 dead in India cold snap Dhaka Bangladesh at least 75 people Many of them homeless have died in the cold wave that has gripped Northern India and ban Gladesh for the last three Days news reports said saturday. Lithuania oks new party Moscow Lithuania registered the first Legal non communist political party in the so Viet Union the newspaper Sovie Skaya Rossia reported saturday. Alternative political parties were illegal until Early december when the lithuanian parliament eliminated a Section of the Constitution guaranteeing the supremacy of the communist party and substituted a multiparty system for the Small Republic. Havel lays Wreath Prague Czechoslovakia on his first full Day As Czechoslovakia s president Vaclav Havel Laid Flowers at St. Wenceslas statue to Honor the sacrifices of those who fought for Freedom. On saturday Havel Czechoslovakia s first non communist president in 43 years toured the medieval hrad Cany Castle the vast presidential office and residence Complex that overlooks Pra gue. Of mercy planes diverted est Germany is a. Air Foice c-i30splies from Landing Sarthe second time in 24 to be diverted to Avi Rhein main a Snow prevented two loaded with medical Simplic urday in Romania. It v hours that the planes Hano a Italy. Poland s nacre restored Warsaw Poland restored Poland s Nam munits 45 years ago a lion to drop the Leadin Republic of Poland parliament saturday changed by the Corn amended the cons Titu role of the communist party in slate affairs. The Senate vote confirmed restoration of the the country s official name from the people s Republic of Poland imposed when the communist party took Power in 1944. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega flanked by Chancellor Miguel d Escoto left and minister of defense Gen. Humberto Ortega announces the expulsion of 20 . Diplomats and about 100 embassy employees. . Embassy left virtually unguarded during invasion by the Washington pos Panama City Panama after the United states launched its invasion to topple Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega one of the prime targets for Retalia Tion by Noriega s forces the american embassy was left virtually undefended for three hours until . Army soldiers showed up according to embassy sources. Barely 20 minutes after the Start of the . Military intervention at i . Dec. 20, the embassy came under attack from members of Noriega s panamanian defense forces psf who fired six rocket propelled grenades at the building from the front and rear. Sever Al rounds penetrated the embassy s whitewashed Terra Cotta Walls but no one was killed or wounded. According to a source who was present 30 employees were in the building at the time including eight lightly armed Marine guards and a Security officer. They were the sole defenders of the seafront com Pound. We were left completely defenceless in a wartime situation one embassy source said. Everyone Here was really upset another said. The marines were really upset. They were expected to defend the embassy with handguns and shotguns. All they had were riot control  Richard Shoup the embassy s Security officer said he could not comment on matters of operational Security in connection with the attack. All i can say is we had our hands full Here continuously since the Mili tary operation  embassy sources said that with a concerted psf attack the building easily could have been overrun producing a dangerous hostage situation and risking the loss 01 classified files. Employees expressed outrage that the Security of the embassy and its personnel was not evidently include Din operational planning for the . Invasion. And they complained that John Bushnell the Deputy chief of Mission who was running the embassy at the time did not warn them about the . Attack although he informed three panamanian opposition leaders about five hours before the operation began. Bushnell told opposition leaders Guillermo Endara Ricardo Arias Calderon and Guillermo Ford of the invasion at a dinner dec. 19 at fort Clayton a heavily protected . Army base in the former Panama canal zone and remained there with them during the fight ing for Security reasons. Endara who was far ahead in a vote count in last May s presidential election when Noriega annulled the balloting was sworn in As presi Dent shortly before the . Invasion. Arias Calderon and Ford took oaths As vice presidents. Two embassy employees called Bushnell negligent charging that he had failed to ensure that the embassy was adequately protected. I consider it unconscionable almost criminal one employee said. An pm Basov spokesman said Bushnell would not comment on the matter for the record. However a senior embassy official said saturday that we did not move any forces from the . Military bases to the embassy so As not to do anything that tuesday that in any Way would suggest that anything was  the official said the Marine guards had been or dered to report to the embassy at 11 30 . That nigh for an emergency  he added that nothing went on at the embassy for some time after the  while the employees inside May have been uncomfortable he said they were not m danger. The embassy did take some fire but Only after . Reinforcements arrived the official said. Employees who were present disputed that version. The first rocket propelled grenade an antitank weapon hit the embassy at 1 22 ., one source said prompting frantic Calls to the . Military s Panama based Southern come for assistance in defending the building. 19$9 will be Good year dub serbs from Page 1 of a skinhead. Zsa Zsa will slap slap a cop an Oil company will try to a  itself after a Tanker Captain fails to get a designate Alaska. Hotel Queen Lcona Helmsley will get an addition Al room paid for with taxes that Only the Little people pay. Of Pete Rose although becoming known As a we Tor player will be hustled out of baseball. The United states will Send troop Jed a Central american country in search of a Pine. The  s club exp amhed in 1956 by employees at a  Agency has been making its Johnny Opie lately predictions for at least 20 years Waas Jam but still the members have trouble convincing Finks the club has High powered Crystal balls. We go Mflton a limb. Some of these predictions arc unconscionable. Nobody Ever believes us. Some of these Are pretty far fetched Waas Rind. Waas said he has been up foment or rather acting president of the club su0ru began. The  has t reported Back yet he said. Wulin l it be something if i was t made or Csc Thudin which claims 6,500 members worldwide and he Thor half million who Haven t gotten around to ring yet is currently in the Middle of the 1978 ship drive Waas said. 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