European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday january 29,1990 Odd Light brightens night for . East Washington a thou Sands or people in the Eastern United slates reported seeing a strange Blu ish Green Light in the night sky sat urday and some experts said they could have been viewing an unusually Large meteorite. We Are quite confident it was not a Man made object re entering said maj. Dick Adam spokesman at the North american aerospace defense come Norad in Colorado Springs Colo. We have no idea what it  sightings were reported from new York state to Virginia. Adam con firmed that the air Force receive Calls from All of those areas. Robert scribble of the National ufos reporting Center in Seattle a private organization also reported receiving dozens of Calls. Based on descriptions that have been Given. I d say we re dealing with a very Large solid a very Large mete or said scribble. Descriptions run from a Blue Green to a Bright Green object coming Down in an angular descent leaving a Short Tail behind it said scribble. He said everyone who had telephoned the Center described the object As coming Down and hitting the ground in their area which is very common in something like  among the people who reported seeing the object was David Arnold an air traffic control supervisor at Dulles International Airport outside Washington who reported the sight ing at 7 10 . We Don t know exactly what it was a meteor or a satellite said Arnold who has been an air traffic con troller for 25 years. It lasted 25 to 30 seconds and went from Brilliant White to Orange As it broke  a television reporter in Oak Hill w.va., went to the Home of one of the first witnesses nearly three hours after the initial sighting and reported the Light was still nov ring in the sky. Kitty Harrison assignment editor Forway to in Oak Hill said what she saw was absolutely not a meteorite. Among the witnesses in the washing ton area was Andrew Guthric a news editor at the voice of America since1983. It was a dramatic thing to Sec said Guthric. I almost drove off the  he said the object appeared to be three or four times Treetop level and about the size of a Grapefruit with an incandescent Bright  thousands protest against Romania s interim government Bucharest. Romania a More than 15,000 people heeded an opposition Call sunday and gathered in a noisy show of discontent against the self installed provisional government and its plans to participate in Romania s firs free elections in More than 50 years. In the largest demonstration since de Cember s revolution toppled dictator Nicolas Ceausescu the crowd gathered at Victory Square in front of the head quarters of the Council of the National salvation front the interim govern ment. Several thousand pro government demonstrators marched to the Square first but they quickly were surrounded by thousands More chanting resign resign and waving their fists at the Headquarters building. The anti government protest was sponsored by the largest opposition group the nati9nal peasants party As Well As the National Liberal party an the social democratic party. All three organizations have called on the Council to give up its hold on Power. On sunday the leaders of All three parties went to the Headquarters build ing and a peasants party spokesman said they were meeting interim president Ion Iliescu to demand that his govern ment give Way to a coalition government representing a wider Range of the Popula Tion. Outside the pro government crowd shouted Iliescu  they if quickly drowned out by a chant of. Cd is a  the government on tuesday Irvin be a Promise made immediately Ali Las month s revolution that toppled Ceausescu and announced it would Field Candi dates in the May 20 election. The National salvation front declared itself the interim government in the opening Days of the revolution last month and several of its leading Mem Bers were ranking communists until they fell out of favor with Ceausescu. Opposition parties have cited the fac that the front was not elected and its communist makeup in criticizing its decision to contest the elections. Even be fore sunday s demonstration protesters had gathered several times to object to planned participation by the interim government. News updates Reagan denial new Orleans up1 for Mer president Reagan has denied allegations by Iran Contra middleman Richard Accord who accused him of avoiding a full accounting of his role in the Amis for hostages Deal to finance the1 nicaraguan rebels. Accord. Who was sentenced to two years probation for lying to a congressional panel investigating the affair accused Reagan of being cowardly and of hiding out to avoid telling inc Rulh during a visit to a Junior High school. Reagan said he explain disc secret arms Sale to Iran when in first came to Light Throe Vears ago. He has denied knowing the arms Sale Money was to be diverted to the contras. Or. Accord does t know what he s talking  Reagan said in response to a reporter s question. And i think if you Check it. You will find hat once exposed falsely. I went on inc air and told the american people what we had been doing and i gathered the leadership of the Congress an told them what we were  arrests in Panama Panama City. Panama a two people have been arrested in the killing of the american finance director of the Panama canal commission police announced saturday. William Joyce was shot by an intruder in his Home last tuesday. Joyce. 56. Was taken to the . Military s Gorgas Hospital where he died Early wednesday. The two hooded burglars took Money and jewelry from Joyce s Home. Police said they had recovered the jewelry. Joyce was the fourth highest offi Cial of the nine member commission which runs the Panama canal. Leslie Loaiza. The police director told reporters on saturday that 19-year-old Rafael Palma Ricaurte and an unidentified minor had been arrested in connection with the Case. Christian moslem tanks Trade fire along Green line dividing Beirut Beirut Lebanon a Chris Tian forces and moslem militias exchanged fierce Lank fire across Beirut s dividing Green line sunday while a new cease fire was reported Between rival shiite moslem in South Leb anon. The sound of exploding shells mixed with Thunder claps from a storm when the fighting broke out overnight in the Central sector of the three mile line dividing the lebanese capital. Police said no casualties were re ported from the i rec hour flare up that violated a cease fire brokered by the Arab league in september to halt the latest clashes in Lebanon s 14-year old civil War. At least four people were killed and 12 wounded by police count in similar violations along the Green line in the first two weeks of 1990. The sept. 22 truce halted six months of murderous shelling duels Between Christian troops of Maverick Gen. Michel Aoun and the syrian army. Police said 929 people were killed and 2,744 wounded in the shelling. The new hostilities came As presi Dent Elias Herawi s new government was readying a Security plan to ban militias and combat terrorism in West Liei rut in Hopes of encouraging foreign diplomats to return to the City s mos Lem sector. The new outbreak of violence also reflected the deepening political crisis resulting from Aoun Defiance of Lara i s syrian backed government which is cementing the de Favelo partition of Lebanon into  mini states. Parliament elected Lara i a Maro Nile Catholic As president on nov. 24. He promptly fired Aoun. Also a Maro Nite from his Post As army commander and interim prime minister. But Aoun refused to hand Over the presidential Palace to Herawi and or give up control Over troops holding the Christian enclave Northeast of Beirut. Meanwhile the mainstream shiite moslem amal militia said in a statement that its forces observed a cease fire with the rival pro iranian Hezbollah or party of god. As of 2 . Saturday in South Lebanon. The statement said the move was a result of a we Klong mediation by vis iting algerian government envoy Mohammed Taher. He held separate talks in Beirut with leaders of the two factions. Hezbollah s press office also said its militiamen were holding fire in the embattled i slim Al Tuffaha or Apple province in the Highlands above the port City of Sidon. Reporters in Sidon the provincial capital of South Lebanon 25 Miles South of Beirut said the amal Hezbollah skirmishes had dwindled into sporadic sniping after the latest truce was proclaimed. At least 98 people have been killed and 286 wounded in the latest round of amal Hezbollah clashes that broke out in the Apple province dec. 23. The two factions have been fighting each other intermittently since May 1987 for Mastery of the 1,2 million shiites the country s largest sect. By police count More than 930 peo ple have been killed and 2,753 wounded in the 2-year-old confrontation. 17 Western hostages fit and Well London up seventeen West Ern hostages in Lebanon Are alive and Well sources in the shiite Muslim Hezbollah organization told a British news paper in a st3ry published sunday. The sunday correspondent quoted Hezbollah sources As saying that British journalist John Mccarthy and american Thomas Sutherland were being held in the basement of a House in the West Bei rut suburbs. Their captors Are under strict orders to make sure the two men Are fit a dwell Hezbollah sources said. We take care of them like we take care of ourselves said a Hezbollah member who told journalist Hala Jaber that he has had the privilege of guard ing Mccarthy and Sutherland since Jan uary. There Are 15 other Western hostages including Terry Waite 50, an envoy for the archbishop of Canterbury. The newspaper reported that efforts arc made to be sure that neither Mccar thy nor Sutherland Falls ill. We provide them with Light by using strip lighting and rechargeable batteries because of frequent Power failures Jaber wrote quoting the guard. We occasionally bring them old magazines and  the following Day Jaber said she checked the Story with a Man who sever Al sources have since confirmed was a senior member of the pro iranian Hezbollah s Security network. They Are in the same  the Hezbollah official told Jaber referring to Mccarthy and Sutherland. All the other hostages Are alive and Well. They arc not held in the same place for Secu Rity reasons. They have been split into Small groups in various parts of the