European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In stars and stripes saturday january 6,1990page28� lie bartered Panama ready to launch Long rebuilding Panama City Panama a panamanians on thursday tried to Start rebuilding their country battered by More than j2 billion in damage from the  and burdened by six years or despotic Rule. Although the dictator was gone and the ild celebrations were Over the Joy Here seemed boundless. We Are too Happy said Reynaldo de Gracia night watchman who witnessed the revelry in the Capi Tal wednesday night after word spread that Gen. Man Uel Antonio Noriega had surrendered to . Troops. Noriega s Transfer to Florida to face Federal drug trafficking charges ended a brutal reign that had intimidated this nation of 2.2. Million people since 1983. Down to the Small kids everybody knew he is criminal said truck Driver crispinian Avila. We Don t want o see him Ever again. Not even in a  panamanians Are still trying to figure out just How much harm Noriega caused. The Economy hobbled by american sanctions de signed to get rid of Noriega suffered another blow from the widespread looting and vandalism during the american dec. 20 invasion. But if Noriega was unaware of his unpopularity the misconception could not have survived wednesday afternoon. The deposed Leader sat isolated in a Small room at the Vatican Mission where he was holed up for 10 Days fleeing thousands of . Troops who invade the country dec. 20. The Walls of his room could muffle but not Block out the thunderous chant of 20,000 people outside clamor ing for his head. Cruzada Civi Lista the coalition that ran opposition candidates during Noriega s time including Guillor panamanians from Page 1 his first Day in court. I just want to get one look at him and Tell him a few things that he s an Assassin. And that he destroyed our  said Jose Clement,25, a student two years in exile. But the crowd did not get a glance at Noriega. In Stead they stood in Small groups waved makeshift placards submitted to the questioning of reporters. Only a few dozen reporters were permitted into the arraignment 100 or so others milled about in a closed off Street pecking into each others note pads. From time to time the crowd provided a , someone shouted kill him and people began to run. A Phalanx of police were pushing a Man toward a nearby bus station. The Man was Jose cd pro. A cuban american and the police were ushering him to safety. He had dared to raise a sign saying ". Hands off Panama and the crowd turned on him. "1 believe Noriega should be penalized cd pro said As he was hauled off trying to clarify his views. "1just Don t think the . Military should have gotten  the celebrating Here had begun late wednesday As a crowd of 200 clustered outside the Gates of Home Stead fab some 25 Miles South of Miami to await Noriega s arrival aboard a military c-130 air plane. To Endara Panama s new president called the demonstration and then tried to cancel it because of Security  he was cornered said roman Catholic archbishop Marcos Mcgrath. He also was unwelcome. The Vatican embassy had told Noriega it would lift its diplomatic immunity and ask panamanian Security forces to come into the Mission to arrest him if he did not leave voluntarily a spokesman said thursday. Rev. Javier Villanueva assistant to papal Nunci monsignor Sebastian Laboa said Noriega was not Given a deadline but the position was made Clear to him. Gen. Maxwell Thurman. Head of the . Southern Ord said the demonstration was a key Factor in Noriega s decision to turn himself in. Maj. Gen. Marc Cisneros commander of the .army South confirmed that Noriega kept a Summa Chine gun under his bed during his stay at the Nuncia Ture which would have made it difficult for the unarmed staff at the Vatican Mission to evict him. In the meantime the cleanup continues. American delegations Are arriving Here to examine what the United states can or should do to help but nobody is discussing specific numbers yet. Money is dribbling Back in. About $70 million Unfrozen funds has been thawed but about $300 million More remains blocked in accounts Frozen nearly two years ago. Millions of dollars of Noriega s Money also has Bee taken Over and Given to the government. A demonstrator Waves a pineapple a reference to Man Uel Noriega whose nickname is pineapple face at Roadblock in Panama City leading to the Vatican embassy. Azerbaijani Border protest Cooling Down officials say Moscow a protesters in the soviet Azer Baijan Republic have begun pulling Back from the Border with Iran after several Days of often violent demonstrations there protest organizers and Security officials  situation is stabilizing. People arc gradually going  Yusif Sam Doglu a writer and Leader of the azerbaijani people s front which organized the protest said thursday. He spoke by Telephone from Baku the provincial capital. The azerbaijanis who arc largely shiite moslem began demonstrating last sunday for open Borders and unification with the two shiite azerbaijani province sin Northern Iran. The protests quickly turned violent and guard Low ers fencing and communications facilities were destroyed. One death has been confirmed by officials. The government daily Izvestia estimated the Cost of the rioting a More Nan $8.2 million. Savili a. Pc rets Deputy director of the official new Agency acc inform. Said in a Telephone interview from Baku that the Border area was calming Down. He said Azerbaijan party chief Abdul Rakhman pc Iron and other officials travelled to the area to  disturbances along Azerbaijan s nearly 500 Milc Long Border with Iran were the latest flare up into years of ethnic unrest among azerbaijanis armenians georgians abkhazian and other ethnic group sin the soviet caucasus Region. More than 300 people have died in the ethnic unrest in the past two years according to official figures. It. Gen. Nikolai Brit in head of the political department of the special Border guard units told the official Tass news Agency wednesday that one person was killed in a clash on the soviet Iran Frontier but redid not say when. He also did not say whether others were  said one soviet citizen crossed the Border into Iran and there were probably other Crossings but that there was no Large scale  unrest began dec. 4 when a crowd of soviet azerbaijanis gathered at the Border with loudspeakers and called on their iranian neighbors both members of he same ethnic group and predominantly shiite moslem to unify their regions. About 4 million ethnic azerbaijanis live in the adjoining iranian province of Azerbaijan where Stalin briefly set up a puppet state during world War i before being forced by Western Powers to withdraw in 1946. I Noriega from Page 1 since his arrival in Miami Early thursday morning. He waived his right to a speedy trial which his defense lawyers estimate will require nine months of preparation and take six months to try. Noriega s lawyers told the court they would not see Kan immediate Bond hearing. That Means Noriega will continue to be held in a Federal facility. The indictment names 15 other co defendants rang ing from Noriega s closest crony it. Col. Luis Del Cid charged with acting As a go Between who carried Money Between Onega and colombian drug Traffick ers to several relatively minor figures including pilots of air planes that carried Cash. Five other co defendants Are now in custody including Del Cid Eduardo Pardo and Daniel Miranda both pilots and two americans Brian Davidw an alleged cocaine distributor in Miami and William Saldarriaga an alleged cocaine trafficker. As the court proceeding got under Way the 51-year-old general appeared Small and slight next to his de sense lawyers when he was asked to stand he clasped his hands behind his Back. Noriega wore a Short sleeved Khaki uniform shirt with Gold stars on the shoulders and Brown pants. Absolutely not he said through the interpreter when Hoevler asked him if he had had any drugs or medications within the past 12 hours. Absolutely not came the response again when hews asked if he had seen a psychiatrist within the past 12 months. Rubino Lold the court that Noriega surrendered be cause he had been informed by the papal Nuncio Mon Signor Jose Sebastian Laboa that the panamanian government was about to revoke the diplomatic privileges of the Vatican embassy where Noriega had spent the last 10 Days. A senior Bush administration official atthe White House and officials in Panama confirmed this account. Rubino said Noriega was also told that As of noon thursday the Only person who would receive Protection was the papal Nuncio himself and that Many in Side the embassy including nuns and priests could be killed by the growing crowd of demonstrators outside the embassy Gates. In Washington defense Secretary Dick Cheney Sai Noreiga demanded a handful of minor concessions he made the request that he be allowed to surren Der in uniform that his family be notified that he be allowed to make some Telephone Calls and that he surrender to a general officer and All of that was worked out Cheney said in an interview. A senior . Official told reporters at the Whitehouse that members of Noriega s family now sheltered in the cuban embassy in Panama City arc expected Tobe Given Safe passage to the dominican Republic