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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, January 20, 1990

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes saturday january 20,1990 panamanians support invasion poll finds Panama City Panama a most panamanians questioned in a poll consider the . Invasion a liberation and want the troops to stay As Long a needed to establish order according to results released thursday. Cons Lloria inter disciplinarian in de Varrollo. A Gallup associate conducted the poll Jan. 5-13 among 1,304 panamanians in Urban and Rural areas. . Troops invaded dec. 20. They ended the regime of Gen. Manuel Anto Nio Noriega who took Refuge in the vat ican embassy four Days later. He surren dered Jan. 3 and was flown to Florida where he is jailed pending trial on drug trafficking charges. The results of the poll show a Pana Manian people who agree with the Mili tary action of the United states in their country consider it a liberating act and accept with pleasure the government of president Gullermo Endara Cid said. The organization said the poll was con ducted in Rural and Urban areas to reach a Cross Section of the population but no fur ther details were Given on polling methods nor was any margin of error specified. Of those asked 89 percent said they Felt the . Action was necessary. In answer to another question. 86 percent said they considered it a liberation. The poll also found that 88 percent said they saw the invasion As beneficial to Panama a similar number said they wanted the . Forces to remain in Panama. Asked if . Bases should remain in Panama after the year 2000, 57 percent said they should and 18 percent said they probably should. Under the 1977 Panama canal trea ties Panama assumes full control of the waterway on dec. 31, 1999, and . Military installations providing Security for the canal must be closed. Of those polled 87 percent said they had an unfavourable opinion of Noriega 10 percent said they had no opinion and 3 percent had a favourable opinion. Ninety one percent said they had an unfavourable opinion of the panamanian de sense forces and saw them As repressive. Air pollution forcing Milan to curb driving on sundays bicyclist wears a mask to protect her from air pollution in Milan s Cathedral Square. Milan. Italy a Italy s business capital has clamped a nine hour ban on driving on sunday because of persistent air pollution. The measure which has drawn both protests an demands for stiffer permanent measures will be the longest ban on cars in Italy since sunday driving was barred throughout the country at the height of the 1973 Oil crisis. The move to curb car exhausts was taken after dry windless weather pushed Carbon monoxide to High Levels across Northern Italy. Health officials said there was no Hazard to Resi dents so far but cautioned ill or elderly people to limit outside  will be barred from Milan and 30 suburbs populated by 3 million people Between 9 30 . And 6 30  owners soccer fans and officials of the Milan Trade fair attacked the move As an in convenience and a threat to business. The Media joined the Campaign against the socialist mayor of Milan. Paolo i ill Illuri claiming that the sunday ban will do nothing to Cut air pollution because traffic on that Day is always Light. It s a stupid demagogic and useless  wrote Giorgio Bocca a columnist for the widely circulated newspaper la  of Rome. It s not a serious  said corriere Della Sera of , who have been voicing alarm Over the growing Levels of air pollution in Industrial cities said Milan should consider using electric powered Public transportation and building huge parking areas on the outskirts of the City to keep cars out of the City during the work  parties claim that Pilletteri brother in Law of s9cialist Leader Boltino Praxi is exploit ing the anti pollution Campaign for the municipal elections this  of Milan s soccer teams into Nazionale had been expecting a sellout crowd of 65,000 for a league match against Samp Adoria of Genoa but team officials said they expected the driving ban to sharply reduce attendance even though the stadium can be reached by City buses. Korean air lines let pilots stray off routes to save fuel study finds Seoul. South Korea a korean air lines has violated safely and other regulations and allowed its pilots Fly off course on some International routes to save fuel transportation ministry officials said Fri Day. Inspectors discovered Many problems in Kal s management maintenance and safety measures the officials said speaking on condition of anon mity. The officials said details of an inspection of Kal would be released later. They declined to say whether the report pertained to the 1983 disaster in which a Kal flight was shot Down by soviet fighter planes after straying off course and allegedly entering soviet airspace. The Downing of Kal 007 in september 1983 killed All 269 people aboard the .-Korea flight. Some fam Ilies have sought punitive damages in . Courts con tending the plane s Crew acted with wilful misconduct in straying into soviet airspace. The airline did not comment immediately on the transport ministry report. In the. Past Kal has denied that its pilots look shortcuts although South korean newspapers have re ported such instances several times. An inspection was launched after a Kal dc-10 jetliner crashed last june Short of Tripoli Airport in Libya killing 80 people. Charges were filed against the Pilot after libyan and korean officials concluded that Pilot error caused the crash. The ministry officials said Kal was fined $44,000 and ordered to Correct professional inexperience poor maintenance and Over Strain on Crew members which could Lead to accidents. The officials said the company to save fuel had allowed pilots to Cut Short regular flights by three to 121 Miles on at least 14 International routes since 1980. The airline took shortcuts on some .-Korea routes the officials said refusing to elaborate. World today French police investigating Cave explorer s overdose Paris a police on Friday continued to investigate the drug overdose of Scro Muc la gun a Cave explorer who set a world record after living in under ground isolation for 111 Days. The body of la Guen 33, was discovered late thursday in her parked car in northeastern Paris. Police said she died from an overdose of barbiturates and called the death a suicide. They did not say Why la Guen had taken her life or. How Long her body had been in the car. But Michel Silt re who directed the underground Experiment in 1988 that Cut off la Guen from the outside world attributed the suicide to purely private causes and said she appeared Happy when he last saw her two weeks  were perhaps some relationship problems in her Circle problems of a private nature he said with out elaborating. For me that s the real cause of her suicide because i Don t see any connection not eve indirect with the experience. She lived through in 1988." soviets withdraw aircraft from Cam Ranh Bay base Moscow a the soviet Union has with drawn Mig-23 and Tu-16 planes from its base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam a foreign ministry spokesman said  Ranh Bay a former american base during the Vietnam War is the soviets largest foreign base according to american military sources. As of 1985, a reported 30 ships were based there. A Squadron with six to 10 aircraft remains at the Field spokesman Vadim per Filicya said at a briefing. He gave no other details about remaining military strength at the base.Mig-23s arc fighters. Tu-16 badgers Are variously fitted out As bombers and electronic reconnaissance aircraft. Fruit Fly danger contained chilean official says Santiago Chile a agricultural minister Juan Dominguez said thursday that the government had halted the possible spread of the Mediterranean fruit Fly after 12 of them were found in the fruit grow ing Aconcagua Valley. All the necessary technical measures have been taken the minister said. He called the problem local emergency that has been virtually  Domingucz talked to reporters in the Valley City of los Andes 48 Miles Northeast of Santiago near the Border with Argentina. The 12 flies were found nearby earlier in the week and the discovery was made Public wednesday. Juan Sepulveda head of the government s agricultural service said the flies found in los Andes  to have come from Argentina. The discovery coincided with the Start of the fruit Harvest. 20 iranian pos sent Home in Iraq Exchange Nicosia Cyprus a Twenty sick or disabled iranian soldiers captured during the eight year War with Iraq arrived in Tehran on thursday Tehran radio reported. They were welcomed at Tehran s Airport a Day after Iran repatriated 50 similar iraqi prisoners. Mahmoud Alamiri. An official in charge of iraqi prisoners of War in Iran deplored the lopsided Exchange. The fact that the iraqi regime had released Only 20 iranian prisoners in Exchange for 50 released by us the previous Day limits the possibility for other such exchanges Alamiri said according to the broadcast monitored in Cyprus  
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